Agile Web Dev Shop seeks RoRer

We are an open and innovative company looking for some of the best individuals in the area to join and form a small integrated team. We are very selective and believe the key to our success will be finding talented, well-rounded team members. If you are looking for a company where your thoughts and opinions are valued, rather than simply finding that others dictate their ideas to you, then this is the company for you. We believe everyone benefits from an environment where others are treated with honesty and respect. No one is simply a cog in the works, each team member’s ideas are valued, and each team member shares in the rewards when we complete large accounts.

Summary:
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our team. The Software Engineer is responsible for developing, upgrading, and maintaining all new projects the team agrees to work on.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance project design tools and supporting systems, including wholly new system-level components from scratch.
• Review application failures and perform maintenance tasks on systems in order to determine the source of failures, and correct errors as warranted.
• Support the performance, stability, and growth of all versions of applications, tools and custom software modules.
  
• Participate in code and design review process, provide and receive feedback.
• Other duties to be assigned as needed.

• Highly proficient in Ruby on Rails.
  
• Knowledge in SVN source control.
  
• Strong knowledge in SQL queries.
  
• Team player.
  
• Can work independently and enjoys being able to solve difficult problems without help from others.
  
• Considerable effort-estimating, implementation planning and progress-tracking skills.
• Proven ability to meet tight deadlines in a multi-project environment.
  
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.

Education And/Or Experience:

• At least 1 year of experience using Ruby on Rails, preferably in a professional environment.
• At least 5 years experience programming in a scripted language (Python, Perl, etc). 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design patterns. 
• Development experience testing with rspec preferred.

We offer a competitive compensation package.