Working With Rails

Songkick is looking for two gifted developers to join our close-knit and extremely talented technical team. Mid- to heavyweight candidates please apply. We’re an experienced and disciplined team, ambitious about building a quality service which brings delight to our users. Our CEO and CTO have backgrounds in machine learning, and this informs a development ethos that finds intelligent and scalable solutions.

We’re looking for self-starters with the ability to take on a range of very hard and intriguing challenges: from developing a world-leading destination website, to integrating that service with other platforms – mobile, social networks, – to large-scale data acquisition and processing. For you, this presents an opportunity to develop a key role over the coming years within a team that is growing rapidly.

What we’re looking for:

* Proven experience building awesome web apps.
* Ability to work in a flexible manner, building prototypes fast and evolving these into scalable production-quality systems.
* Experience of XP methodologies: TDD, pair programming, OO design, refactoring, etc.
* Experience working as part of a development team.
* Ability to rapidly pick up new technologies and incorporate them into production software.
* A love of live music.

A big plus would be:

* Experience with Ruby on Rails.
* Contributions to open source and/or hobby projects.
* Knowledge of Unix systems, Apache, MySQL etc.

To apply please send a short email introducing yourself to joinsongkick@songkick.com and include:

* Your CV.
* Salary expectations.
* URLs of cool things you’ve built / worked on.
* Tell us about the most recent gig you’ve been to if you want!