"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun."

- Colleen C. Barrett
 
Senior Ruby On Rails Developer (Pune, India)

Who we're looking for:

We want someone very comfortable with server-side web technologies such as Ruby, but at the same time someone who isn't afraid to treat JS/DHTML as a real language. Someone who will apply creative design and engineering rigor to front-end programming.

What you would be working on:

socialmedian is a news service that connects people with personalized news and information. socialmedian enables you to easily keep up-to-date on the news that matters to you and to people who share

your interests. It is in a closed invite-only alpha phase with 3000 users. You can find coverage on socialmedian at ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, LouisGray, Silicon Alley Insider, and VentureBeat.

For socialmedian, we follow extreme agile development methods, which mean that the features that you would be working on would be released in weeks rather than in months. You'll get a real chance to work on something that would be used by hundreds of thousands of users.

You should have:

  • Strong experience with Ruby On Rails.
  • Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant databases.
  • Experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript.
  • As a guideline, we expect you have experience working on JavaScript/HTML/CSS ("AJAX") web applications.
  • A feel for good design -- both in terms of engineering and user experience.
  • Very strong practical knowledge of relevant W3C standards (XHTML, DOM, CSS).
  • Demonstrated expert-level knowledge in overcoming cross-browser compatibility problems in JavaScript and CSS.
  • Familiarity with http protocol and ability to use it for low-level troubleshooting.
  • Understanding of semantic coding and why it's important.
  • Tolerance for the overhead of rapidly iterating toward greater usability. Insistence on complete/frozen specifications just won't work here.

And some nice-to-haves:

  • Experience with memcached
  • Working knowledge of XML and XPath
  • Working knowledge of SOAP based WebServices
  • Cvs / svn
  • Knowing your way around Unix
  • vi / emacs
  • Handy with regexes
  • Shell scripting

If you like what you read, please send your resume to 
If you don't have a resume handy, fine,  just send a mail explaining why you think we should be eager to talk to you.

Contact :

  • Contact Person: Pooja Nayak
  • Phone: 093255-17788
  • Email:

Make Mistakes
Our aim is to create an environment where it's not only ok to make mistakes, but where mistakes are an accepted and integral part of a learning process that pushes the team beyond the comfort zone.
 
 
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