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Ruby/Rails developer x 6, London, Start up's to Blue Chips

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:43:27 +0100

Company name:	Start up's to Blue Chip
City:	LONDON
Country:	UK
Length of employment:	Permenant
Contact Info:	0207 536 3172
Travel:	0%
Onsite:	Yes
Description:	I am currently looking for Ruby/Rails developers with exposure/experience in any of the technologies below. The companies I am working directly with are based in the London area and they cover all industry sectors such as e-commerce, Mobile, multimedia, finance, gaming and social networking. If you have 6 months + experience please call me for an update on any suitable positions on the e-mail. Rhysyevans@gmail.com with the subject box reading “London based Rails Jobs” All salary expectations are welcome!!!!!! (Within reason of course) No timewasters please……………………………………
Required Skills:	Language and Frameworks • Ruby • Ruby on Rails (ROR) • MERB • Camping Methods of development • Agile • Scrum • XP (extreme programming) • PP (paired programming) • TDD (test driven development) • BDD (behaviour driven development) • RESTful approach Testing Tools • RSpec • Selenium • Jmock Front end web Development • XHTML • CSS • JavaScript, AJAX and DOM manipulation.
Desired skills:	The desire to build amazing web based apps!!!
Employment terms:	Salary
Hours/Salary	Flexible depending on experience - please call to discuss.....

Music service developer (Ruby), Brick Lane, London, Playlouder MSP

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:16:40 +0100

Playlouder MSP has been working with ISPs and the music industry to develop both an innovative business model for music consumption, and innovative user experiences around music and communication to complement ISPs’ offerings.

As a key addition to our small but growing development team, you will be critical in helping to refine, scale and roll out our application and service to white-label ISP clients.

Key requirements

Background in computer science, mathematics, software engineering or similar (degree or equivalent experience)
A solid technical all-rounder with software development experience on sizeable projects

The specifics

Our work involves all of the following, and you’ll be tackling problems involving many of them:

Dynamic languages (experience with Ruby, on which our current implementation is based, would be particularly desirable)
Rich web application development with a large Javascript-based client-side portion
A modular, widget-based user interface framework for the above
Databases (MySQL at present), data modeling and ORM tools
Unix-based deployment environments
Large volumes of media, media metadata and usage statistics
Web services APIs, and large-scale integration work
Server push technologies, and scaling applications with a live messaging component
Common agile software development tools, processes and techniques - source control, bug tracking, testing etc
A warehouse full of music geeks

Some other things which you might get to play with:

Other languages - Java, Python, C, possibly Erlang (see ‘messaging’ above), …
Messaging technologies like AMQP, ActiveMQ, XMPP
Music technology R&D projects
Lots more in a fast-growing company

In return we can offer challenging problems in an interesting domain, competitive pay, and a great work environment for music fans in our E2 warehouse!

Enquiries to help@playlouder.com

Ruby on Rails developer, London (city), Leapfrog

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:53:47 +0100

We are seeking an experienced Restful Ruby on Rails developer with demonstrable experience in building exciting and innovative applications. Ideally, you will also have a keen interest in social software, although that is not essential.

You will spend much of your time working closely with consultants, designers and other developers in our Social Media team. As such, in addition to very high technical standards, we also expect you to have good social and communication skills and be used to working well in a team environment.

In return we'll offer a competitive salary, an informal working environment (no suits required) in a great location and fabulous office in Shad Thames / Butler's Wharf, where you'll have easy access to great coffee, good restaurants and get to work alongside a bunch of knowledgeable and passionate people joined together by a desire to help change the way people collaborate and communicate.

Must have experience with:

Modern Restful Rails development
Working with Subversion

Experience in the following is a bonus:

Development on OS X or Linux
Working in an agile, flexible environment
We test using RSpec and Behaviour Driven Development, but any test driven development experience is a bonus
Version control with Subversion (and ideally with git or another distributed version control system)
Systems administration, deploying Rails on a variety of Linux based environments with tools such as Capistrano
Front end code, writing high quality, semantic HTML and unobtrusive Javascript (we like jQuery)
Integration with Web Services such as SOAP is sometimes required for our enterprise customers

Ruby On Rails Developers (All Levels), Cambridge, UK, AlphaSights Ltd

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:16:45 +0100

AlphaSights Ltd is a knowledge services company that is pioneering new ways for business and financial professionals to rapidly access relevant specialist industry knowledge and professional talent across Europe. Besides leading-edge proprietary technology, our business success is based on our people: intellectually curious by nature, they thrive in an environment of ever-changing challenges calling on their capacity for creative thinking and their ability to deliver results.

AlphaSights was founded by successful entrepreneurs who share a passion for the knowledge economy and who understand its complexities and requirements. Based in Cambridge and London, our venture-funded company is assembling a best-of-breed team to deliver on the vision of a next-generation knowledge services company. We seek to attract the best and brightest and offer competitive remuneration as well as the prospect of rapid, merit-based promotion.

As a Ruby On Rails developer at AlphaSights Ltd you will play a key role in developing an innovative web based system from the ground up in a fun and rewarding start-up environment. You will have the opportunity to get involved with the design process early on and help mould our product to become a market leader. You will have a good background in web based programming with a passion for Ruby and a flair for robust, clean coding. You will have a keen interest in agile development processes and be a strong, communicative team player.

Your responsibilities include:

Ruby on Rails software development
Mentoring other developers, passing on your valuable experience.
Reviewing and auditing code.
Database schema design
Object oriented design
Front-end web development using JavaScript, XHTML and CSS

Required Skills:

Demonstrable track record developing substantial web application in Ruby on Rails or similar framework.
Strong understanding of good code design principals such as DRY and thin controller/fat model
Understand the key factors in making code secure.
Testing using Rspec, Shoulda or similar
Experience in MySQL, Capistrano, Migrations, XHTML, CSS, JQuery/PrototypeJS and RJS
Good working knowledge of unix-like environments such as MacOS and Linux.

Desired Skills:

Open source participation
A background in modelling complex data and data analysis
Experience using solr and acts_as_solr
Experience administering Apache and Monit.
Knowledge and experience of using development approaches laid out in books like “The Pragmatic Programmer” and 37signals “Getting Real”.

Compensation:
Remuneration is highly competitive and will reflect your contribution to our company’s overall success. As a young, fast-growing company we offer excellent career opportunities and you are expected to progress. Please send your online application including your CV, your salary expectations and a brief covering letter outlining why you think you are suitable for this role to careers@alphasights.com. Contact via email only. No agencies please.

R on R and/or Java masters WANTED!, San Francisco, Ca, The Fletching Group

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:36:38 +0100

Hi,

My client, a growing, young Internet technologies firm located in San Francisco, is revolutionizing the implementation process for web app platforms and looking for an experienced R on R Master to join their team!

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

-Bachelor's degree or higher with emphasis on Computer Science or Web Development
-Ample experience with R on R (work experience may be substituted for 4 yrs. of undergrad and 2 yrs. of graduate school)

REQUIRED TRAITS:

-Motivated, driven to succeed, strong work ethic
-Intelligent, capable
-MUST love working for young companies, and is enthusiastic about innovative technology
-Willing to wear multiple hats at times
-Willing to put up with pleasant Bay Area weather: consistent 50-70 degrees most of the year. Nice.

COMPENSATION:

-DOE, between $100k to $120k. Benefits included, Room for growth. Reimbursement for candidate's relocation expenses to San Francisco will be discussed.

**If you're interested, send me a message via Facebook or email me at sfbizventures@gmail.com**

ONLY SERIOUS APPLICANTS APPLY**THANK YOU

Ruby on Rails developer with an interest in sport, London, Abelson Info

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:38:25 +0100

We are a small but growing Sports data company, providing Sports data and technical services to major bookmakers and media clients.

With some major new projects lined up, we are looking to recruit a smart and talented software developer to help grow our development team.

Ideally you will have extensive Ruby and Rails development experience, but we will consider Rails newbies with solid web development skills who are eager to learn.

As we are a small team, you will need to be prepared to work flexibly and with enthusiasm.

The information we deal with every day is sports based, so a love of sport would be a great asset (as well as a love of sports trivia).

We are based in Chiswick, London, and this role would especially suit someone in a short commuting distance.

Salary Offered: £22-£35K p.a., depending on skills and experience.

Please note that this is a full time position for someone who is keen to start or continue their career development with us.

If you think you are the right candidate for this role, please send a CV and covering letter (which should explain what you love about web development, and sport) to jobs@abelsoninfo.com . If you have any relevant URLs for your work please send them as well.

Absolutely no agencies please!

Rails / Merb Development Team for Hire!!, London, UK, Dynamic50

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:54:25 +0100

We are an experienced rails development team in London that could hit the ground running!

Our company has been outsourced, and we have had to move on!

We are a well versed development team, who have worked closely together for the past couple of years, and are up to speed on the following technologies:

- Rails 2.0, Rails Edge
- Merb (http://www.merbivore.com)
- RSpec, BDD
- RESTful architecture
- SAAS (Software as a Service)
- Caching + scaling
- Integrating external APIs
- Linux, server setup, configuration + maintenance
- NGinx, Capistrano, Apache, MySQL, Mongrel (+cluster)
- HTML, CSS, Javascript (including JQuery, Prototype + Lowpro)
- Git, Subversion

and much much more.

Interested? Please contact us via our website