888.313.2007 : mirRoR Placement

Angel funded social blogging startup

Year old, angel funded startup is looking for a Ruby-on-Rails programmer who can work in a rapidly changing business environment in the social network blogging space with very little oversight.

Super flexible work environment, very rapidly developing site (if you're dying to try your hand at writing the core features of most Web2.0 sites this is the company for you), ability to have large impact on direction of company and play in a 100,000 plus hits a day site. A great place to get large scale Rails experience.


What's required:

  • solid understanding of Model View Controller architecture
  • some Rails experience (you should have at least gone through the books and done the sample apps) 
  • very strong SQL skills 
  • basic Linux skills 
  • flexible personality 
  • you've worked for a web startup in the past and are familiar with "this isn't a Fortune 500 company" 
  • ability to work alone for long periods of time and produce results

What'd be great:
  • strong Rails skills
  • Linux guru 
  • experience scaling large Rails applications 
  • experience with Rails engines http://rails-engines.org/ 
  • experience tuning PostgreSQL databases 
  • replication experience with PostgreSQL 
  • memcache's religiously
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