Working With Rails

We are seeking Ruby / Rails developers to join in both research and production roles. The role calls for a team player with good customer facing and communication skills, a willingness to learn new methods and technologies.

You’ll ideally have a consulting / software development background and will be able to demonstrate your competencies using a portfolio of sites you have been involved in designing and building. You’ll have developed content-management systems and designed applications for production-strength architectures. You’ll understand how to optimise relational databases and write fast queries. You’ll be happy working within a small team of capable and enthusiastic developers with practical processes and to high standards. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and a desire to maintain exemplary output. You’ll be experienced in taking ownership and responsibility for functional sections from conception through design to implementation and support. You will also receive training as necessary to develop your technical skills further.

Essential skill set

3+ years OO programming experience.
Strong knowledge of Ruby and Rails
Solid understanding of MySQL
Standards based Javascript & CSS
Helpful skill set

Python experience.
Server maintenance / Shell scripting
AJAX (if you are going to play this card you must have excellent javascript skills, not just Prototype/jQuery)
Enterprise development experience a plus!
Key Responsibilities

Carry out requirements analysis and system design with full responsibility or as part of the team
Manage time and plan work to ensure quality output on time and budget
Produce code to standards ensuring it is high quality, maintainable and fully tested
Ensure projects are documented in a manner that will ease future system and code upgrades
Duration: 3 month trial period with a view for full time employment.

Location: We are based in Notting Hill, London.

Salary: 32K - 43K GBP depending on your experience

Applicants are required to send the following:

CV
URLs exemplifying your work.
Give three web based examples of your favoured web applications (these can be your own work and/or other websites you consider to be of merit).
Please send CV and application for the attention of Guy using our contact form on http://rumblehq.com/contact