Working With Rails - Recommendation

If you are the type of developer who crushes all expectations, thrives in a collaborative, agile environment, think RoR is one of the best languages for development, and could explain the inner-workings of social networking to your grandmother -- we've got the job for you. In the last few months, Involver: - was named a Facebook Preferred Developer (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/16/facebook-consultants/) - was one of 7 finalists out of thousands of entrants in the Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge (http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/) - launched an exclusive album premiere for Alicia Keys (http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/12/07/involver-gets-into-music-promotion-business-with-new-app-for-facebook-pages/). Involver is fastest growing social media platform. Leading agencies and brands use our technology to create world-class social media applications that engage audiences across multiple social media sites. Over 50,000 brands use Involver to start, monitor and address millions of conversations reaching more than 90 million opt-in brand advocates. In 2009, Involver was named a Facebook Preferred Developer and one of the most innovative companies on Amazon’s Cloud Computing platform. Involver is the trusted partner of the world’s top brands including Best Buy, General Mills, Sony/RCA Records, 2010 Winter Olympics, Toys R Us, Audi, Sprint, and HP.Ruby on Rails Developer (multiple levels) If you want to write serious Rails code that is more than a scaffold and some models, we want to talk to you. We have a top-notch team that has built an amazing business on a solid technical infrastructure. We deal with web services from every major vendor, millions of users, agile methodologies, deep modifications to Rails core, domain specific language use and development, and tons of social media. We need devs who want to go deep, and want to have fun doing it. Major Job Elements: • Complex rails development targeting web, mobile, Facebook, Twitter and other plaftorms • Agile development (pairing, refactoring, TDD) • Working with Marketing and CTO to define new features and improvements • Interfacing with external partners to integrate 3rd-party systems into our system • Working with customers to gather requirements and develop new products Perks: - We are solving challenging problems that need to be communicated to business owners in a way they'll understand. - Work for established, award-winning leaders: - - Our CEO, sold his first company at 18, took his second company public at 20, and graduated from the best MBA program in Canada without a bachelors degree - - Our CTO has worked for Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems and has filed more than 25 patents. - - Both have been named top entrepreneurs from Inc. magazine, amongst receiving other honors. We're expanding our team fast, so although ideally we'd like to find full-time developers, we're also open to contractors as well, with a minimum commitment of 4 weeks. If you've read this far, and this all still sounds interesting to you, please send me your resume, and we can start talking soon. jacqueline@involver.com

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