Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com Our client, an entertainment technology company based in Culver City, CA has a position available for a Ruby Developer:
Ruby DeveloperOur client is looking for a talented and passionate full-stack developer to join our project team. The project is an enterprise buildout of a next-generation digital asset management system to store, manage, and distribute files to users worldwide. The project has been running for more than five years and has a team of exceptional developers.Furthermore, the team uses a carefully selected and constantly evolving combination of Agile methodologies and processes.Pair programming is encouraged, and test-driven development is the default. Stories are reviewed and pointed as a team. Continuous integration and deployment are entirely automated.The system utilizes AngularJS for its front-end and is a single-page application communicating with a Ruby on Rails API on top of a Postgres database. These are also multiple Ruby back-end services utilizing a mixture of polling and event-driven architectures. The entire infrastructure is hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is managed via Chef and Opsworks.Key responsibilities include:Working with the team to define implementation of new features for a complex asset management system.Working closely with the UI/UX team to build sensible and good-looking interactions.Testing, development, and debugging of existing functionality.Analysis and diagnosis to consistently improve system performanceKey requirements, skills, and knowledge include:BS in Computer Science or related.Preferred 2-3 years' experience.Expert knowledge of Javascript, HTML5, CSS and related frameworksExpert knowledge of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.Experience writing tests using Rspec and Capybara using TDD/BDD.Experience developing APIs for use in single page or native applications.Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs.Proficiency with command-line tools (bash, git, ssh, tmux, etc.)Good knowledge of relational database technology (SQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)Nice to Have:AngularJS.Experience writing functional tests for single page applications.Deployment and management on Amazon Web Services.Experience with any messaging framework (JMS/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ/SQS).Involvement in the open source or meetup communities.Affinity for retro video games.