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Web Developer (Pune, India)

We are looking for freshers or experienced individuals very eager to get acquainted with web technologies such as Ruby on Rails, AJAX etc.

If you'd love to work on web 2.0 applications, learn from the best in the field, make mistakes, bruise yourself and start all over again, then here's your ticket to the ride...

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.

What you pick up on the way:

  • Excellent learning and exposure and maybe your first shot at working with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, memcached, nginx, mongrel clusters etc.
  • The perfect startup environment to design and create truly scalable, distributed web applications.
  • An eye and feel for good design -- both in terms of engineering and user experience.
  • Understanding of semantic coding and why it's important.
  • Agile methodologies and the tolerance for the overhead of rapidly iterating towards greater usability

Who should apply:

  • Freshers or experienced individuals into Ruby on Rails, PHP, AJAX or with the eagerness to learn.
  • You must possess a BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.
  • You should have proved through your academic projects, or internship that you have what it takes to succeed in a startup environment.

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:

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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