Working With Rails

ideeli is an exciting, venture-funded community/commerce startup implemented entirely in Ruby on Rails. We believe in small teams, agile development, quick turnaround, and getting things done. Across the entire company you'll find we're exceptionally ambitious and have been so successful that our initial investors have all increased their investment. As a result, we are growing. We are looking to broaden our team with the addition of a senior developer/architect.

The ideal candidate would have experience with at least one RoR project and significant previous accomplishments working on highly stylized websites. This is a great role for someone who has some experience with RoR and web development and would like to deepen his/her knowledge and skills base in an exceptional environment.

As a startup we have the potential for significant advancement in all areas. Our needs extend to scalability, integrations with mobile phones (WAP, iPhone,etc), IVR, and other non-HTTP environments, advanced UI, and much more. We are seeking a creative, passionate person who enjoys being part of an effective, small team. We are located in Manhattan and can provide a workspace. However, telecommuting works for us as well as the existing team is geographically distributed (three continents and counting).

Reasons NOT to join ideeli
- You really enjoy meetings
- You find planning more fun than coding
- Words like "synergy" pepper your statements, frequently
- You require the comfort of a gray cubicle in a beige office

Reasons you should join ideeli
- You like developing software and seeing it used by hundreds of thousands of people
- You want to do things no one has done before
- You crave a fast-paced environment with very smart people, minimal management overhead, and getting things done
- You like a company that measures growth in orders of magnitude

Required Skills
- Significant experience with RoR projects (including deployed projects)
- Significant experience of web development
- Experience with DOM, Javascript, HTML, CSS, AJAX
- Ability to work in a small, geographically-distributed team using collaboration tools (Skype, IM, email, Lighthouse)
- Must be detail-oriented and thorough in designing, coding and testing.
- Must be able to provide and explain code samples of previous work
- Familiarity with Subversion (or similar) Source Control
- Workday overlap with Eastern time zone (UTC-5) and/or GMT

Desired Skills/Attributes
- Test Driven Development
- MySQL Development
- Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
- Experience developing UI tests
- Flash development

We are willing to consider contractors as well as equity-holding employees. Please respond with availability and rate.