Sr. Ruby Developer

JOB TITLE: Sr. Ruby Developer
JOB TYPE: Full-time
LOCATION: Toronto, ON
COMPENSATION: $85 – 100K plus great benefits

TAME Search (www.tameinc.com) is working with a client who’s goal is to fundamentally change how people connect to each other and the world around them. They are on the cusp of revolutionizing social networking and want the brightest minds to join them on the adventure!

The planned scale and speed of their growth, combined with a 4.5 million strong user-base, allows them to constantly innovate and prove new techniques and technologies with a broad web audience. They are a flat, learning-based organization in the process of redefining themselves to be a disruptive force in the social landscape. If you thrive on new ideas and impossible challenges, if you dream of being part of something great, if you love the idea of creating fun and exciting ways for people to meet and interact, then you have found your home.

As a Sr. Ruby Developer, you will be rewarded both financially and intellectually. You will work side by side with designers, developers, analysts and product owners to build a new social networking and dating website from the ground up. You will be responsible for translating user stories and requirements into working software, contributing to architecture and design decisions, and delivering well-thought out and working code on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

• implement cutting-edge user interfaces using Ajax, CSS, and DHTML
• implement database schemas and access mechanisms
• break user stories into trackable tasks
• quickly prototype and iterate towards production-level quality
• work with customers to deliver an outstanding product.

Requirements:

• 2-4 years hands-on experience working with large scale, social websites
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 2-4 years Ruby on Rails experience
• 2-4 years SQL experience (MySQL or Postgres)
• Experience with Java and Jruby is a plus
• Experience with HAML and SASS is a plus
• Familiarity with Git, HG Merc or other version control tools
• Strong DHTML and CSS skills
• AJAX experience
• Excellent communicator
• Creative problem solving skills
• Keep up to date on emerging technology
• Experience with Test-Driven Development
• Knowledge of and passion for Agile/Scrum

About our Client:

They are a highly successful, well funded tech startup, that that moved from San Francisco to Toronto. They’ve been featured in numerous publications and televisions programs like the New York Times, TechCrunch, and CNN. Their passion is making a product that rocks and putting it in millions of people’s hands all over the world.