Ruby on Rails Developer

Rackspace, a world leader in hosting delivers enterprise-level managed hosting, cloud hosting, and e-mail hosting services to businesses of all types and sizes globally. Today we serve thousands of customers from data centers around the world. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies and practices for each customer's specific needs delivering it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®. We serve as an extension of our customers' IT departments enabling them to focus on their core business. Rackspace was founded in 1998 and since then has had significant growth year after year. There are now over 2,700 Rackers employed worldwide dedicated to providing customers our premier hosting services.

Rackspace Hosting is seeking a Ruby on Rails Developer to join our Network Security team. You would be part of a fast paced, cutting edge development team responsible for the future of our world class mission critical systems. This is new development work focusing on designing network security tools. If you are you up for the challenge then this could be a good opportunity for you.

Do you believe there is always a better way to solve a problem? Do you enjoy creating new innovative solutions to interesting problems? Do you like working with others in an agile environment creating solutions for the next generation? If so then you may be a Racker and you just don't know it yet!

Stuff you'll need to be a star:

* Solid experience developing web applications (7+ years)

* Strong Ruby on Rails development experience (3+ years)

* A focus on quality and testing

* A commitment to iterative development with frequent releases

* You should know your way around a relational database and have some experience with MySQL

* Experience deploying applications to Ubuntu or Red Hat Linux

* Enough HTML and CSS that you can build sites people enjoy using

* Enough Javascript skills to do simple AJAX

* Driven to be part of the team creating the next great software solutions for Rackspace

Bonus points will be given for:

* Experience working with Cisco firewalls or load balancers

* Experience with a "NoSQL" database such as MongoDB

* Knowledge of functional programming and use of a functional language like Erlang

* Knowing what "unobtrusive Javascript" means and having used jQuery with Rails

* Being able to speak knowledgeably about: Nginx, Passenger, Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, Rspec and Cucumber

Rackspace Hosting is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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