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Our client, an entertainment technology company based in Culver City, CA has a position available for a Ruby Developer:
Ruby Developer
- Our client is looking for a talented and passionate full-stack developer to join our project team. The project is an enterprise buildout of a next-generation digital asset management system to store, manage, and distribute files to users worldwide. The project has been running for more than five years and has a team of exceptional developers.
- Furthermore, the team uses a carefully selected and constantly evolving combination of Agile methodologies and processes.
- Pair programming is encouraged, and test-driven development is the default. Stories are reviewed and pointed as a team. Continuous integration and deployment are entirely automated.
- The system utilizes AngularJS for its front-end and is a single-page application communicating with a Ruby on Rails API on top of a Postgres database. These are also multiple Ruby back-end services utilizing a mixture of polling and event-driven architectures. The entire infrastructure is hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is managed via Chef and Opsworks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Working with the team to define implementation of new features for a complex asset management system.
- Working closely with the UI/UX team to build sensible and good-looking interactions.
- Testing, development, and debugging of existing functionality.
- Analysis and diagnosis to consistently improve system performance
Key requirements, skills, and knowledge include:
- BS in Computer Science or related.
- Preferred 2-3 years' experience.
- Expert knowledge of Javascript, HTML5, CSS and related frameworks
- Expert knowledge of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
- Experience writing tests using Rspec and Capybara using TDD/BDD.
- Experience developing APIs for use in single page or native applications.
- Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs.
- Proficiency with command-line tools (bash, git, ssh, tmux, etc.)
- Good knowledge of relational database technology (SQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Nice to Have:
- AngularJS.
- Experience writing functional tests for single page applications.
- Deployment and management on Amazon Web Services.
- Experience with any messaging framework (JMS/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ/SQS).
- Involvement in the open source or meetup communities.
- Affinity for retro video games.
