# Rails Developers Wanted

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 2, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-developers-wanted/111131 "2007-08-02T22:36:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-developers-wanted/111131/1 "2007-08-02T22:36:44Z")

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Helium is seeking strong, self-motivated, web software developers to  
join our mature team in building our next generation applications using  
Ruby on Rails technology. 
Ideal candidates will have spent the past few  
years in a team environment building web-based applications using PHP,  
Python or Java/JSP. Basic database skills are also required. Experience  
developing a Postgres backed application is a plus. Helium Engineering  
is a small talented team with concrete skills, using agile development  
methodologies in a professional way to produce tangible results on a  
regular basis while working hard and having fun. Team members’ skills  
and creativity are respected and encouraged. Helium is a well funded  
startup and the engineering team cranks out greatness during reasonable  
work hours.

Helium pays its employees competitive salaries, along with competitive  
stock equity plans. The standard benefits – health and dental are  
available – as well as a matching 401K plan (almost unheard of in a  
startup).

About Helium  
Helium, located in Andover, Mass., is a newly funded consumer Internet  
company, building a platform for market-driven, user-generated  
publishing. Helium’s goal is to build the number one source of  
peer-ranked, user-generated content on the Internet. Using a proprietary  
peer review technology, Helium is revolutionizing the world of  
publishing. Now millions of people can come together in one place to  
publish.

Some technologies being used by Helium include:  
Ruby/Ruby on Rails  
Memcached  
Postgres  
Mongrel  
Rake  
MySQL  
RMagick/Imagemagick  
RubyGems  
Java  
PHP

Requirements:  
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.  
Must have 2 – 3 years building web applications in a professional  
environment.  
Strong communications skills.  
Ability to work independently while cooperating with the overall team.  
Ruby on Rails experience would be great, although not required.  
Strong technical skills with scripting languages such as Ruby, PHP, ASP  
and Python.  
Java/OO experience a plus.  
Should be familiar with and comfortable writing dynamic applications  
using a database backend.  
Familiarity with MySQL and Postgres.