Working With Rails

We are looking for a motivated individual with comprehensive skills and experience architecting and implementing software.

(We are happy to consider people who wish to re-locate to France!)

Experience:

Minimum 5 years software engineering/development
Minimum 2 years with RoR (and associated technologies: HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript)
Test/spec driven development
Authoring technical specifications
Deployment tools

Assets:

Security auditing and/or exposure to security concepts (SSL, session management, password management, etc.)
Postgres (preferred) or MySQL: replication, backup, etc.
Experience with web servers (Apache, Nginx, lighttpd)
Experience with scaling and load balancing
Experience with systems (DNS, SMTP, etc.) to help communication with our technical team

In practice:

-working with our design and technical teams to product detailed technical specifiations to define the implementation

-working with our technical team to architect the implementation: modularize functionality, future scalability, provide extensibility, etc.

-doing primary development, but also working with other developers on the implementation

-engage in continuous testing, both server-side and client-side

-mentorship: work with less experienced programmers, providing best practices, code review, etc.

Skills:

Ruby/Rails (PHP an asset)

Git (SVN an asset)

*nix (OpenSolaris an asset): any shell + tools - patch, sed, awk, etc.

SQL (MySQL/Postgres command lines, debugging tools, etc.)

Spec/testing tools and concepts: Rspec, Cucumber, unit testing, Selenium, etc..