seeking experienced Ruby on Rails developer

March 09, 2009

Mightyverse is looking for another engineer… if you or someone you know wants to come work with me coding on Rails for bit, here’s the info:

Mightyverse is building the world’s largest living language database to allow people to say anything in any language anywhere. We’re seeking a passionate, talented Ruby on Rails developer adept at understanding the scalability implications of design decisions and excited to work on a small team. We’re currently on Rails 2.0.2 and looking at upgrading to the latest, as well as adding some new features to our application. Everyone here works on a Mac… Windows is ok, if that’s what you’ve got, but you need to be completely self-sufficient in working out Windows-specific dev issues. This is a contract position for 3-4 months in San Francisco, CA.

Must Have:

• Effective problem-solving skills
• TDD/BDD
• Ruby on Rails experience on a real, live, high traffic website
• MySql DB fu
• Stellar communication skills: in-person, skype, email, and you actually write docs
• Experience with RESTful web services in both XML and JSON
• Experience with localization and internationalization

Nice to Have:

• Unix/Linux environment experience
• Experience with ffmpeg for video transcoding
• Ability to speak more than one language

Technologies we work with are:

• Ruby on Rails
• MySql
• CSS / HTML / AJAX / OpenLaszlo / Flash
• Cocoa, iPhone and other mobile platforms

Please forward this to your totally awesome engineer friends or send your resume to sarah _at_ mightyverse (dot) com with your name and the job title listed in the email subject line.

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