Ruby Developer

Our Client is looking for Ruby Developers with open source contributions (such as Github) will consider North America wide, prefer west coast time zone.

Will consider remote development.

Requirements:

Software Developers

• We are seeking talented software developers to join the fastest growing company in Canada, building software in a behavior-driven development methodology. We offer competitive renumeration, outstanding career and growth opportunities and highly self-directed environment.
• A desire to write well organized, testable and well documented code coupled with a desire to contribute to open source projects is critical.

  Our Methodology:

• Our project managers translate user requirements into user stories tracked in Pivotal Tracker, programmers check out stories, request any required HTML/CSS design work from the design team, code cucumber or rspec tests and then code around their tests.

  Work Methodology

• You will be led by a team lead who is responsible for overall architecture and design of the system. Designers will design screens in static HTML and your job will be to implement the design provided by the team lead. We practice test-first development and will keep iterations / work items in Basecamp.
• Strong independent work skills are required as well as a willingness to plan out one’s upcoming week in Basecamp.

  Required Skills & Experience:

• At least 3-5 years of recent development experience including solid experience with designing/coding highly scalable systems, multi-tiered solutions, database interactions,UNIX/Linux and support of production applications
• Excellent written and verbal English communications skills
• Relevant Experience or A college degree with a CS Major, or a technical major with a CS Minor
• At least 2 years of on-the-job experience in at least 3 of the following: Ruby, Erlang, RabbitMQ, Shell scripts, PostGres,
• At least one solid year of on-the-job Ruby development experience
• At least one solid year designing relational database solutions, as well as creating and executing complex SQL queries.
• Solid coding practices experience including good design documentation, source control, unit testing, peer code-reviews, object-oriented design/coding skills, etc.

  Skills required:

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Test-Driven Development
• RSPEC, Cucumber
• MySQL/Postgres Query design and optimization
• Git
• Javascript, Prototype or jQuery
• CSS (We have designers on staff, but, a functional knowledge is required)

  Nice to have skills:

• Financial Systems experience.
• WebRat
• Capistrano
• Postgres PSQL Experience
• AMQP
• Distributed Computing

Send resume and cover letter to resume@altituderecruiting.com

NOTE To be considered for this position you have to include a resume and cover letter explaining how you meet the required skills, experience and proof of your open source contributions .

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