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Melbourne Ruby Programmer

Posted: 2008-01-07
Company name: Tricycle Developments
City: Melbourne
State: Victoria
Country: Australia
URL: http://www.tricycledevelopments.com/people/employment/developer/
Contact Info: jobs@trike.com.au
Travel: 0%
Onsite: Yes
Description:

You:
* have dabbled in at least two new languages over the past three years, and are confident on two operating systems.
* love reading about what you do in order to improve how you do it (blogs, books, essays).
* have a favourite text editor / IDE (and opinions about why it’s better).
* like the idea of working in a small, non-hierarchical team.
* are comfortable with a modern scripting language (ruby, python, perl, etc.).
* have 2+ years of experience working on commercial or open source projects.

The Job:
We’re open to flexible hours and don’t require your physical presence every day, but we will need to see you during normal business hours at least a few times a week.

Salary:
Remuneration will be commensurate with your abilities, and we’re open to negotiation, but you’ll have to work to convince us that you’re a good match for the position if you’re looking for more than $75k, or you’re worth less than $45k.

Next Steps:
Contact jobs@trike.com.au with:
* your resumé;
* a list of your favourite languages, and why they’re your favourites;
* your favourite IT blogs, books and essays;
* a good time that I could call you

Required Skills:

A dynamic programming language (preferably ruby), and at least two other programming languages.
Solid computer science fundamentals.

Desired skills:

Ruby
Rails
Test/Behaviour Driven Development
a swag of other programming languages that you learned for the fun of it

Employment terms: Salary
Hours: Flexible
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