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| Ruby Developer Required @ JobsGoPublic.com | |
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| The Company - JobsGoPublic.com | |
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| - "Not just a job site" | |
| - based in Aldgate / Tower Hill (the warehouse used in Dragon's Den) | |
| - Working in Rails for almost three years | |
| - 400,000 monthly unique visitors | |
| - 35,000 jobs posted in 2007 | |
| - A network of almost 200 "powered sites" running off a single core application | |
| - An impressive bunch of creative people (full of keen photographers, musicians, and at least one "baton twirler") | |
| ============== | |
| The Challenges | |
| ============== | |
| - How to deal with "legacy code"? * | |
| - How to trim, streamline, and optimise our current system? | |
| - How to get rid of one-off client requests, and present a single, coherent, but incredibly usable SAAS offering? | |
| * "legacy" because we've grown so much since we first started using Rails | |
| ======== | |
| The Toys | |
| ======== | |
| - Technology : Ruby, Rails, Rspec | |
| - Storage and Search : MySQL, Solr | |
| - Ideologies : TDD, Scrum, "keep it real" | |
| - Hardware : iMac, MacBook Pro, Ubuntu | |
| - Web Services : Agileista, Lighthouse, Campfire, Github | |
| - Profiling / Monitoring : New Relic, Exceptional, God, Roodi | |
| ========= | |
| The Perks | |
| ========= | |
| - An AMAZING ScrumMaster! | |
| - Time and space to "do it right" | |
| - Flexible working & NO late nights | |
| - Team meals, breakfast, and drinks | |
| - A table football table | |
| - RailsConf, maybe even in Vegas | |
| - Scope to try out creative / crazy ideas | |
| - A salary less than £100k | |
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| You are | |
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| - Experienced with Ruby and Rails | |
| - Into Agile Development | |
| - Test-driven to the Core | |
| - Based in or near London | |
| - Keen on working in an exciting and capable Agile team | |
| ========= | |
| More Info | |
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| - http://jobsgopublic.com | |
| - http://jgp.co.uk | |
| - http://blog.jobsgopublic.com | |
| - http://github.com/jgp | |
| - http://github.com/matthewrudy | |
| - http://twitter.com/jobsgopublic | |
| - http://is.gd/3Tom | |
| email us, and arrange to come have a chat; | |
| - [email protected] |
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