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Senior Ruby On Rails Developer (Pune, India)

Who we're looking for:

We want someone very comfortable with Ruby On Rails, but at the same time someone who isn't afraid to treat Javascript 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 got acquired by XING, a leader in business networking. You can find the pictures of the team celebrating the moment here.

At socialmedian and XING, 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. This is something that we call Ship It!. 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 programming in 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.
  • 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 JQuery and Prototype
  • Handy with RegEx
  • Working knowledge of Opensocial or Facebook API

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: Nishith Shah
  • Email:

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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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