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Senior Developer for NetBooks

Posted: 2008-10-09
Company name: NetBooks
City: San Francisco
State: CA
Country: USA
URL: http://www.joblicator.com/company/netbooks/45
Contact Info: netbooks@joblicator.com 415.869.8841
Travel: 0%
Onsite: Yes
Description:

Is this you? Do you…

* Get excited about building great products that will be used by millions of people?

* Have a passion for working with Ruby on Rails?

* Like to building amazing web applications for a real market?

* Want to build the next killer application for the 20 million small businesses in the US?

* Love to work in a fun and dynamic start-up environment in downtown SF?

* Want to join a company with a sound business model and real revenues?

If this sounds like your kind of gig, then you need to join the NetBooks team!

NetBooks is growing like a weed. We're looking for developers who want to work with some of the brightest minds on Ruby, JavaScript, CSS/HTML and MySQL. We design and develop code in a dynamic Agile environment. We offer great benefits, an A-list team and a great start-up environment in San Francisco's SOMA district.

NetBooks is currently hiring a Senior Web Developer to join our stellar team:

Job Description:

* Design and implement software for our SaaS business management applications and supporting middleware.
* Write unit tests and coordinate your development with the CTO
and the development team.
* Write bullet proof code that is highly scalable.
* Deploy applications.
* Perform version control with SVN and participate in release management.
* This position requires technical leadership qualities exercised in a hands-on, non-bureaucratic style and a willingness to mentor and review other team member's work product as required to strengthen the team and to improve the product.

Required Skills:

* Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree or equivalent experience or training.
* Strong knowledge of building secure and scalable web applications is an absolute requirement.
* Business or financial systems experience a big plus.
* Strong knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Linux, MySQL and Apache.
* REST or other services oriented design experience.
* Experience with JSON and XML, including parsing, schema, and transformations.
* Strong grasp of network protocols, caching, synchronization, pooling, threads, concurrency, distributed computing, transactions, and optimization.
* Disciplined approach to software development, with mindset of test-driven coding and agile project management.
* Strong teamwork skills, practical business sense and a passion for delivering cool and innovative products.

Employment terms: Salary
Hours: Full-time