# Ruby Technologist - Estes Park Colorado **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 27, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-technologist-estes-park-colorado/168896 "2009-05-27T07:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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ePark Labs has an immediate opening for a Ruby technologist in or around Estes Park, Colorado. If you like to drive or fly long distances once or twice a week, then you can live further away. About ePark Labs ePark Labs engineers, builds, and manages very large business information systems for Fortune 500 companies and a select few emerging-growth companies. We primarily use Ruby but do a lot of integration with many open-source technologies. All of our systems run on the internet in one way or another. Some are normal web applications, others run on devices and use data on the internet. We operate around the clock and have users in 144 countries. We automate almost everything to make this work with a small team of people. About the Position This position is for an aggressive technologist. It is more important how fast you learn than what you currently know. Although we value knowledge and wisdom. You will utilize, or learn to utilize, a broad range of skills including system architecture, database schema architecture, UI design, software engineering and development, and network communication. You will often work with very large data sets (millions to billions of records). You should “like” data. We work with a select group of contractors. You will communicate with them as needed. You will work closely with the our small team of other technologists. We are all technologists and do not have a distinction between architect, engineer, and developer. We expect people to work at all levels of the technology process either as a master or apprentice in order to understand how everything works and how efficiencies can be gained and lost. You will be a master and apprentice of different technologies at different times. We don’t have titles per se. If you are looking for a job title to stick on your resume, then look on monster or dice. You’ll probably find one there. If you are hired and require a title for some specific purpose, a suitable title will be bestowed upon you for the duration of the need. We expect you to work from the attitude of abundance. This means that you see an abundance of ideas and opportunities. You do not hoard ideas or opportunities, you are happy to share them because there are always more. Time & Travel You should be available for architecture, design, and code-review meetings once or twice a week in Estes Park as needed. But most of the time you can work from anywhere you prefer – like in our office, in a cafe, hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park (a lot of thinking goes on there), or from your house or RV parked at the beach. The first month or so will require quite a bit of in-person time to get up to speed. If you choose to work directly with customers you may travel once or twice per month for a system requirements or architecture meeting with the customer. Other than that, there is no travel requirement. We focus on production rather than time clocking. So you can work your own hours as long as goals are being met and quality is solid. We will provide structure if you need it. Unfortunately some projects require that you log your time and activity for billing purposes. We try to minimize this. We prefer that you do not work on Sunday or some other 24-hour period of your choice so that your brain can function at full capacity during the normal working hours. Qualifications & Opportunities to Learn Master (or soon to be master) of some of these languages: Ruby, Java, C, JavaScript (jQuery & ExtJS), SQL Be able to write a converter between things like XML, JSON, YAML, HTML, etc. Working knowledge of some of these: PHP, Python, Perl, Objective-C, Haskell, Lisp, Scala, PostgreSQL, MySQl, Oracle, SQLite, CouchDB, Lucene, Adhearsion, SVN, Git, Bash. Know your way around UNIX. We primarily use FreeBSD and OSX. But test on all major platforms. You can develop on any platform you would like as long as “ls” does not return an error. We occasionally do some integration with .NET technologies so you can really use whatever you want. You are responsible for maintaining your own box. Understand the concept of web services - REST and SOAP. Able to comprehend large systems in your head and enjoy getting a white board dirty. Understand the issues of i18n and hopefully have experience dealing with them. Understand testing frameworks and know how to use them. Many of the things you work on can be released as open-source. You may or may not be a “customer-facing person”. That will be determined by mutual agreement. Obsession with data and system security. Enjoy building honeypots and watching the activity of the latest bots. Enjoy testing your social engineering skills on our customers. Colorado CCW a plus. Compensation We compensate based on performance. This means that you will receive a decent salary plus bonuses for how well the company and your projects do. If you lead or work heavily on a project and it does very well, you will be compensated accordingly. We do not have a 401k or other retirement plan. Our preferred retirement plan for you is that you will build your own product or company and we will assist you in making it into a great success. We will provide you with a laptop or something else if you prefer. You can put any OS(es) on it that you would like. If you run an open-source project that we like, we may consider sponsoring the development of the project as part of your compensation. Next Steps Email jobs at eparklabs with a resume and/or a description of yourself and your capabilities and why you think this is a good fit for you. If that is too time-consuming then just send your resume and let it speak for itself. Please also include if applicable: 1. Some code examples in the language of your choice or links to open- source projects you created or contribute to. 2. Links to things you have built. If you worked on this thing as a team, please describe your role. 3. Links to blogs or articles you have written about technology or anything else you are interested in. 4. Tell what you have learned in the last 6 months and what you would like to learn in the next 6 months. We will interview each other via phone, email, chat, and finally in- person. If we are the right fit with each other, then you can start immediately (Hopefully June 1).