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Ruby on Rails Developer - Join A Team That Includes Rick Astley at World Wide Web Hosting LLC

Your Home, United States

The Position
Site5 is seeking a mid-level Ruby on Rails developer. The chosen candidate will be working from home with a small group of top-notch, highly knowledgable developers who are passionate about their coding. You will be working on writing a group of related Rails 3.2 applications which are currently being developed from scratch, in-house. The applications will replace our CRM & billing system, Synco, and our client account manager, Backstage. You can read more about them at http://www.eng5.com

Our ideal candidate is pragmatic, quick thinking, and a great problem solver. You should not be afraid when google returns 0 results for the answer you're looking for. Below is a list of requirements needed for this position as well as some additional skills that would be desirable.

Skill Requirements- Ruby and object-oriented programming (2+ years)
- Rails (2+ years)
- Rails database migrations
- Testing (Rspec, Shoulda, Test::Unit etc…)
- MySQL (including database design and performance tuning)
- Prototype or jQuery
- API integration experience
- Modern HTML & CSS skills
- Comfortable working with Git
- Able to view solutions from a customer perspective

Additional Skills desired
- cPanel API experience
- SOAP
- Sinatra
- Rack
- Active::Merchant
- Gem Authoring
- SCSS
- CoffeeScript
- Involved in open source projects

Meet the team

Justin Mazzi, Chief of Engineering
- Github: http://github.com/jmazzi
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/jmazzi
- Last.fm: http://last.fm/user/jmazzi

Dan Richert, Software Engineer
- Github: http://github.com/drichert
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/drichert
- Last.fm: http://last.fm/user/pfoam

Joshua Priddle, Software Engineer
- Github: http://github.com/itspriddle
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/itspriddle
- Last.fm: http://last.fm/user/nevercraft

Why should you work at Site5?
Site5 is very active in the open source community which you can read about more at http://www.eng5.com. You can also have a peek at our projects on Github http://github.com/site5. Here are a few reasons you may enjoy working for Site5.

  • You will be working from the comfort of your home anywhere in the world!
  • We are a small company with under 75 team members and have some great opportunities to move up and further your career!
  • All employees receive 17 days of paid time off per year.
  • Health/dental/vision insurance is available to U.S. employees.
  • Your input and suggestions matter, and we encourage them.
  • We encourage learning new skills and we will pay for the books to help. We want you to grow and move up in the company. Your success is our success!
  • Emphasis on using and contributing to open source software.
  • Creative and fun atmosphere. Our development team is just as passitionate about their music as they are their code.
  • Flexible schedule.
  • Variety of problems to solve.
  • Freedom to use the tools you want to develop our software.


How to apply?

Email railsjob@site5.com with a link to your github account. And maybe a joke.

Type of position: PERMANENT
Work hours: Full-time
Telecommute: This is a telecommute job.