Do you want to work with smart, creative people building great software while using progressive tools in a small team environment? Ingram Digital - Education Solutions software and systems deliver eBooks and audiobooks to a large, active userbase everyday. We want two more Software Engineers to work with our team building the next generation of class-leading software products. Ideally, positions will be located in and work with teams in the Austin, TX or Raleigh, NC area. Remote home office locations may also be considered.

Stuff we like: Ruby, Rails, Solr, OS X, MySQL, Apache, JavaScript, CSS, XML, C++, and anything that comes along that we can use to build great software.

(some telecommuting)

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Location: Anywhere

We are a nascent startup preparing to launch a new web/mobile consumer service.

The back-end is 90% complete, in Ruby on Rails. The front-end is currently scaffolded and used for development and testing.

We need a front-end designer with a passion for

• uncluttered, Web 2.0-style interfaces


• clean, semantic HTML


• cross-browser CSS


• working with Rails (erb or HAML templates, helpers, etc.)

In the future we will want to produce an optimized rendering for mobile devices, so, if you have experience creating m.whatever.com renderings, then, bonus, we love you already.

We don’t care where you live- just interact with our Subversion repository and web-based ticketing system.

We have the site navigation sketched out- please fill it in with your compelling visuals.

To apply: Send email to job1@hiptickle.com

Ruby Developer (Ruby on Rails / RoR). Bright, passionate Ruby developers sought by award winning technology focussed company based in Central London (voted number 1 place to work with Ruby in Europe). You will design and develop new features in an Agile development environment, using pair programming, two week sprint cycles and daily Scrum meetings. You will also have time allocated on a weekly basis to dedicate to personal projects and explore new and emerging technologies to feed back to the open source community.

Requirements:
They are seeking open source enthusiasts to join their talented team and are currently recruiting for multiple Ruby on Rails Developers due to growth (from 35k at mid-level to 55k at senior level), therefore they will consider junior / graduate candidates, up to senior level developers (experienced). You will be enthusiastic about technology with a passion for Ruby on Rails and developing top quality code with some experience of working in an Agile development environment and with Web 2.0 framework. Other technologies used: Mocha, Cruisecontrol, Beanstalkd, Memcached, Hoptoad, Solr, Selenium.

Join a Dynamic Creative Team of Ruby on Rails Engineers!

Work for well stable, techno centric company that is growing and have an impact on an International audience through the Multimedia world. We are seeking talented Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer that must have at least 2-3 years of experience doing Ruby engineering. We need someone that is dedicated and driven to work with a stable company that is growing. It is located in or near North Salt Lake area.

In this position you will:
• Earn an attractive salary of 80-100k+ DOE plus bonus and benefits.
• Work with the smartest and most talented engineers to create custom solutions in an iterative development environment.
• Be on the cutting edge of ideas and creativity where you will have an impact.
• Work with a team of individuals who share one common goal building innovative systems that can help with the future of where Multi-media is headed.

(onsite) at: USA ,UT, Salt Lake City

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Job Responsibilities:
• Working under limited direction and within general practices, provide technical expertise by independently determining and developing approaches for solutions for a wide range of complex software engineering problems.
• Working closely with engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the product cycle, to clarify feature requirement and use cases
• Writing design document of certain modules and collaborate with team members in U.S. and China to get them reviewed.
• Implementing certain modules based on the design documents.
• Doing unit testing and integration testing with other modules.
(onsite) at: china, shanghai

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The company is well-funded, located in Northern Virginia, and they're building a new application platform entirely using Ruby on Rails. The company is looking for a senior front-end Web developer with a passion for designing easy-to-use and visually stunning web interfaces.

This is a tremendous opportunity to make your mark in the RoR community. You will have artistic and development freedom to create and work in a fun Agile environment. The VP of Engineering only wants to hire the best and is prepared to reward and motivate his "A" players. He is willing and able to put together the right package for the right candidate. This could be a huge home run for someone that can hit it out of the park. Also, the company is growing, there is a strong possibility of advancement based on performance. Did we also mention top salary and stocks for the right candidate?

(onsite) at: USA,Virginia, Northern Virginia

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The company

We are a London based Development/Design house specialising in the build of multiple Rails based sites for clients ranging from small starts up to large corporate and well know household retailers.

Due to the expansion of our client portfolio we are looking to expand our technical team consistently over the next year. Currently we seek a Senior Ruby on Rails (RoR) Developer.
(onsite) at: UK, LONDON

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Position Title: Interactive Application Developer
Reports to: Technical Lead
Program: WestEd Interactive
Department: Information Services
Salary: Competitive
Date Posted: 11/18/2008 16:04:49
Location: San Francisco, CA
Time Base: 100%
Position No: 2753

WestEd, a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, works with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. While WestEd serves the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah as one of the nation's Regional Educational Laboratories, our agency's work extends throughout the United States and abroad. WestEd has 16 offices nationwide, from Washington and Boston to Arizona, Southern California, and its headquarters in San Francisco.

Anyone can work for a .com for dollars. We're looking for someone who wants to work for a .org to improve education and learning.

WestEd has been ranked in the top 100 places to work in the Bay Area multiple times and we don't even have stock options. We provide an indisputably generous benefits package and a great working environment that allows you to collaborate with experts and thought-leaders in all aspects of the educational field, both inside and outside of the organization. And you can go to bed at night knowing that the work you do helps improve children’s lives.

WestEd is a respected leader in the Education sector. We have several hundred active projects at any given time, with an impact that ranges from schools to state departments of education to the federal government. WestEd Interactive, the organization's technology group, has supported over 100 projects in the last few years, and is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit development teams in the educational industry. We work in a fast-moving, evolving environment—and we are growing rapidly.

Position Description

We are searching for individuals who love solving problems, and who have an insatiable curiosity about emerging web technologies and how they tie together with existing technology and practices.

We are looking for someone to add expertise to an already diverse team of web, media, and database developers. We want someone who is interested in technology’s applications, someone who wants to be here because they want to use some of the most innovative tools available to solve long-standing problems. You will work on multiple projects in small teams to develop intuitive solutions. Almost all of your peers are located in our SOMA office in San Francisco, and that is where you will be based.

We want someone who can drive change in our organization, who can help guide us in how to implement new technologies and approaches to working on the web, who has experience with a wide variety of scripting languages, databases, and platforms. This position will focus on Ruby on Rails applications.

Responsibilities

You will help to develop intuitive, useful web-based applications for the educational sector.

Location: San Francisco, CA

URL: www.wested.org/jobs

Anyone can work for a .com for dollars. We’re looking for someone who wants to work for a .org to improve education and learning.

WestEd has been ranked in the top 100 places to work in the Bay Area multiple times and we don’t even have stock options. We provide an indisputably generous benefits package and a great working environment that allows you to collaborate with experts and thought-leaders in all aspects of the educational field, both inside and outside of the organization. And you can go to bed at night knowing that the work you do helps improve children’s lives.

WestEd is a respected leader in the Education sector. We have several hundred active projects at any given time, with an impact that ranges from schools to state departments of education to the federal government. WestEd Interactive, the organization’s technology group, has supported over 100 projects in the last few years, and is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit development teams in the educational industry. We work in a fast-moving, evolving environment—and we are growing rapidly.

WestEd is searching for individuals who love solving problems, and who have an insatiable curiosity about emerging web technologies and how they tie together with existing technology and practices.

We are looking for someone to add expertise to an already diverse team of web, media, and database developers. We want someone who is interested in technology’s applications, someone who wants to be here because they want to use some of the most innovative tools available to solve long-standing problems. You will work on multiple projects in small teams to develop intuitive solutions. Almost all of your peers are located in our SOMA office in San Francisco, and that is where you will be based.

We want someone who can drive change in our organization, who can help guide us in how to implement new technologies and approaches to working on the web, who has experience with a wide variety of scripting languages, databases, and platforms. This position will focus on Ruby on Rails applications.

Responsibilities

You will help to develop intuitive, useful web-based applications for the educational sector.

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• Experience with web application frameworks and platforms


• Comfortable working in UNIX-like environments, particularly Linux and
  Solaris


• Knowledge of the Ruby language, object-oriented programming


• Experience developing and deploying Ruby on Rails applications


• Database design and SQL experience (MySQL and SQL Server directly
  applicable)


• Strong HTML, XHTML, and CSS experience


• Experience working in a team environment; friendly, outgoing manner


• Great communication skills, both verbal and written


• Excellent time management skills to juggle multiple projects
  simultaneously


• Able to work in our downtown San Francisco office

PREFERRED

• Knowledge of Perl


• Experience with web services, R.E.S.T


• Skill in JavaScript and AJAX


• Experience with web software QA and version control


• Understanding of the principles and practices of usability and user
  interaction design

NICE TO HAVE

• Knowledge of security principles, penetration testing


• Understanding of XML/XSLT/XML Schema


• Knowledge of integrating SQL Server and other products into an open-
  source stack


• Understanding of accessibility implications in a range of web
  technologies, from HTML to JavaScript to Flash


• Experience in Internationalization, the Semantic web, or machine
  learning


• Background in Education

To apply: www.wested.org/jobs

The company is well-funded, located in Northern Virginia, and they're building a new application platform entirely using Ruby on Rails. The company is looking for a senior front-end Ruby on Rails developer with a passion for designing easy-to-use and visually stunning web interfaces.

This is a tremendous opportunity to make your mark in the RoR community. You will have artistic and development freedom to create and work in a fun Agile environment. The VP of Engineering only wants to hire the best and is prepared to reward and motivate his "A" players. He is willing and able to put together the right package for the right candidate. This could be a huge home run for someone that can hit it out of the park. Also, the company is growing, there is a strong possibility of advancement based on performance. Did we also mention top salary and stocks for the right candidate?

Hi all,

We are a startup based in the capital of the UAE, AbuDhabi. We have launched recently a new online tendering solution called Monaqasat and so far the response has been overwhelming, which means that we have less time and less hands to deliver all the remaining goodies that we had planned to. So, if you love RoR, want to work in a fun, young and flexible company, please let us know. We provide competitive salaries, health insurance and we take care of all the paperwork for the visas.

Location: Washington, DC

URL: http://blog.sbnation.com/2008/10/3/627709/rails-developer-for-sports

SB Nation, the leading network of owned and operated sports-focused web communities, is seeking an outstanding developer.

You’ll join our small product team and participate in every phase of the development cycle, from feature design, prototyping, and technical architecture to development, deployment, and maintenance. Primarily, you’ll be coding a Ruby on Rails application backed by a MySQL database and running on Linux servers.

You’re a friendly, creative, and pragmatic problem-solver who’s passionate about developing elegant solutions and awesome user experiences. You also:

• Have extensive experience building high-traffic web applications, writing complex and efficient SQL queries, profiling and optimizing code, and devising and implementing caching strategies


• Love writing unit tests and using source control & bug tracking systems


• Know your way around *nix operating systems


• Communicate well


• Have a solid grounding in object-oriented programming and fundamental computer science concepts such as concurrency, complexity theory, and algorithms & data structures

Ideally, you also have:

• Built and deployed into production a non-trivial Rails application


• Worked on small development teams and with remote team members


• Experience building Ajax/DHTML interfaces using the Prototype framework


• Experience using a variety of programming languages and frameworks

Other bonuses:

• Experience managing MySQL servers (maintenance, replication, tuning, etc.)


• Experience managing web or application servers (configuring and tuning any of these: Apache, Mongrel, Nginx, Lighttpd)


• Experience in sports media, passionate fan of sports or actively play sports yourself

About us: SportsBlogs Nation is a network of individual blog communities run by fans, for fans and united by a common devotion to their favorite team or sports. We provide the highest quality content, conversations, and applications to an audience of over 2.3 million (and growing) passionate fans around the world. After successfully growing organically for the last 3 years, we are a well-funded company with an established revenue model and business expertise to go with our technology product & blogging editorial foundation.

This is a permanent position with full benefits based in our Washington, DC office (currently a sweet loft space in Chinatown), but we’re also considering remote candidates (part of the existing team is remote). Remote candidates must be able to travel to DC from time to time for meetings, product design session, etc. Salary commensurate with experience.

To apply: send a resume to jobs@sbnation.com

Young, hip and energetic software
development company is looking for a new
junior Rails developer. (onsite) at: Canada,ON, Toronto

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