Ruby on Rails Developer (Social Networking)

Our client is looking for a Ruby on Rails developer with some commercial Rails experience and good communication skills.

The job is working in a highly profitable and fast expanding organisation operating within the social networking arena. You will be working in fun, friendly offices in the lovely town of Windsor, only a short commute from central London.

The successful applicant will be working in an agile team that use Scrum and Kanban to improve as a collective. Working on new and existing Rails projects, the successful applicant will also be encouraged to contribute with their own ideas.

Since the client is a contributor to the Rails community, it is important that applicants are passionate about the technology and willing to learn.

This employer will look after you with perks such as; company pension, life insurance, Bupa health insurance, discounted Gym membership and a nicely kitted out games room; complete with table football and lots of games consoles! You will also be given fancy equipment to carry out your work.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on exciting projects, learn and grow in a fantastic working environment.

Required Skills:

  • Ruby on Rails
  • MySQL (or equivalent RDBMS)
  • Javascript (Prototype/Scriptaculous)
  • HTML and CSS
  • Linux/Unix

Desired Skills:

  • TDD and BDD (Rspec, Shoulda)
  • Links to projects or blogs you’ve written on
  • Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Previous experience with social networking projects
  • Attribute-based searching with Sphinx
  • ColdFusion, Perl

Salary: up to £40,000

Applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK

Please contact darragh.browne(at)ruby50.com to find out more and apply for this role.

25 September 2009– darragh.browne
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