Working With Rails

I have multiple Ruby on Rails openings with 2 of my clients. These are all full time positions in NYC. My clients will sponsor an existing visa if required. Both of my clients like to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Please contact me to learn more about these Ruby positions at cory@gmsadvisors.com. Below are a few of the positions:

Salaries range from 80-140 + bonus.

#1 - Front end Ruby position (Ruby, HTML/CSS, JavaScript) Localized media/news site.
• Client side applications
• Modern client-side libraries like jQuery and YUI, bonus points for Clojure
• Mobile development
• Consuming interesting APIs (Twilio, GroupMe, Venmo, Foursquare, Twitter, etc.)
• Geo-location, geometry and mapping
• Comfort with Git

#2 - Ruby / Scala - Localized media/news site
You will work closely with a front-end engineer, user experience designer and product manager to create really useful, intuitive software. Specifically, you will:
• Architect, build and ship highly-scalable systems, libraries, and frameworks
• Code using primarily modern languages (Scala, Clojure, Ruby, etc.)
The following would be ideal:
• NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, etc.)
• Search relevance solutions (scoring functions, query classification, text normalization, etc.) and technologies (Lucene-based, Real-Time search, etc.)
• Cloud based services and hosting (AWS EC2, etc.)
• Developing APIs and Web Services
• Consuming interesting APIs (Twilio, GroupMe, Venmo, Foursquare, Twitter, etc.)
• Geo-location, geometry and mapping
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Mobile development
• Open source projects
• Comfort with Git

#3 – Ruby – Social Media type site for businesses to connect with SME’s, professionals, academics & entrepreneurs.
Experience we would love to see:
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience developing web applications.
• 1+ yr experience with Ruby on Rails
• SQL Server Database experience with NOSQL or MongoDB preferred.
• Experience working with Git or other VCS.
• Has experience using the Model View Controller pattern and Ajax. Able to present a webpage to a user and post complex form data to the server using jQuery.
• Follows Eric Evans’ Domain Driven Design (DDD) and understands how to model, maintain, and enhance a domain model for green field development.
• Values techniques from Michael Feathers and Jeremy Miller and has knowledge on how to employ the use of TDD to create a set of unit and integration tests of code that employs the use of Mocking Frameworks.
• Experience using dependency injection techniques using an IoC Container.
• Understands the SOLID principles and knows the Adapter, Repository, and Decorator patterns.
• Has used an ORM such as NHibernate and are comfortable creating new models as well as mapping to legacy Databases that was built not using DDD concepts.
• Values Agile methodologies such as Scrum and XP principles

Regards,
Cory
GMS Advisors
cory (at) gmsadvisors (dot) com