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Sr. Rails Engineer

Posted: 2010-01-30
Company name: PipelineDeals
City: West Chester
State: PA
Country: USA
URL: http://www.pipelinedeals.com
Length of employment: Full Time
Contact Info: nick@pipelinedealsco.com
Travel: 0-25%
Onsite: Yes
Description:

About PipelineDeals:

* A successful self-funded 3 year old startup providing simple and powerful sales pipeline management tools
* Growing fast, providing an amazing opportunity to be part of a next software as a service (SaaS) company.
* Located outside Philadelphia, in beautiful West Chester.

Who you need to be:

* Someone who cares – about the technology, about the business, about the team, and about deadlines.
* Pays attention to detail.
* Strong problem-solver and analytical approach.
* Excellent communicator.
* Writes and ships great code that’s elegant and maintainable – we value software craftsmanship.
* Startup mentality – flexibility and ability to step up and do what needs to be done.
* Passionate about new technologies and always willing to try something new.

Required Skills:

What you need to demonstrate:

* 3+ years solid experience developing Ruby on Rails applications
* Minimum 5 years track record of successful large scale web application development and implementation.
* Disciplined approach to software development, Test Driven Development, and Agile methodology.
* Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL
* Experience with jQuery, Prototype, and YUI.
* Aggressive at refactoring / rewriting old code for efficiency and scalability.
* BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
* Strong *NIX or BSD background, including configuration, management, care and feeding of *NIX or BSD machines and their services (apache, postfix, monit, etc)
* Familiarity with git (or other distributed Source Control Management), and good SCM practices.

Desired skills:

Bonus points for:

* Successful start-up experience
* Contributor to an open source project
* Worked on a high-traffic website, general optimization and scalability skills.
* Understanding of MySql tuning and optimization techniques.
* Experience with Amazon Web Services

* Strong Infrastructure Experience
* Demonstrated proficiency in a shell and a shell editor (vim or emacs)
* Adobe Air / Flex Platform * API HTTP/REST frameworks
* Objective C - iphone development

Employment terms: Salary
Hours: Full-time
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