MetaFilter Jobs posts tagged with ruby

Software Developer -- Challenging projects, brilliant coworkers

chrchr — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:43:43 -0800

Rentrak Corporation is always looking for talented developers to add to our team in beautiful Portland, Oregon. You're probably used to being the smartest developer on your team (but are too humble to admit it), and are looking for a place where you can work alongside talented peers building great software for interesting projects. At Rentrak, we're a small enough company that you can make a big difference, but we're big enough to ensure your paycheck never bounces. Here are just a few things Rentrak programmers have done recently: * Wrote customized extensions to Open Source tools, to process queries hundreds of times faster than commercial RDBMSs * Built a goal-seeking system to dynamically generate optimal SQL queries for end-user data requests * Celebrated our 3 billionth transaction processed * Implemented software to categorize and predict consumer behavior based on television viewing history * Created systems that predict movie sales in theaters, retail stores and video rental locations * Gave a Tech Talk to Google about our brilliant database technology Our teams are relatively small (three to six people), and we have a development environment influenced by XP. We have a nice open work area so our developers can share their brilliant ideas, learn from each other, expand our extensive custom libraries and work together to solve tough problems. We keep our source code base well factored and filled with unit tests. We work with a stunningly large amount of data, and everyone here does an amazing job of turning it into something manageable. We have a very high hiring bar, and we feel that all the people who work here could easily get a job at any of the major tech companies. Our management understands this and works hard to make sure our developers are happy and productive. We're looking for ridiculously smart developers to help us reinvent our industries. Experience with functional or dynamic object-oriented development experience is great (e.g., Lisp, Smalltalk, Scheme, Ocaml, SML, Haskell, Ruby, Unlambda, C++/STL/Boost, or advanced use of Python or Perl). RDBMS experience is also helpful, especially with terabyte-plus databases. Rentrak's developers work with their teammates on all aspects of the development process: requirements gathering, system design, database design and tuning and, of course, lots of unit tests and coding.

Ruby (Maybe on Rails) Programmer

DarlingBri — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:31:40 -0800

"You've got to be willing to change more than you love your code—mistakes are good, rapid iteration is great." We heard the hype, we tried it for ourselves, and we've taken the plunge—we're all in with Ruby on Rails. More joy, less code. Convention over configuration. The whole bit. Better than all that: we're having fun actually building a business around something useful and exciting to designers and digital photographers. Are you somebody who knows exactly what we mean? LuckyOliver, a Campbell, California-based digital photography web site, is looking for a programmer who gets what we're trying to do with the business and knows right how to make it sing on Rails. You've got to be a stellar thinker who knows how move from brainstorm to prototype quick—it's all about momentum. You've got to be willing to change more than you love your code—mistakes are good, rapid iteration is great. You need to be articulate and a good writer—so that the whole team gets it. Things you'll need to know: * Ruby on Rails * MySQL * Subversion We'll help you get into our setup and learn anything you are unfamiliar with. This is a very good environment for an experienced Ruby programmer who is hot to trot with scalability solutions. This position is available immediately, pays competitively and is full-time. You'll be working in our offices in downtown Campbell, where we have parking spaces, a Wii and a good attitude. We're a creative, fun-loving, hard-working team and if you thrive on the energy (read: chaos) of a startup environment, you'll like LuckyOliver. We're a startup founded on a business (ZURB) that's been around for 8 years (read: eons), so we're not going anywhere.

playful web project seeks web developer!

suttree — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:52:37 -0800

GameLayers is creating a "Passively Multiplayer Online Game" out of surfing the web. We follow players as they browse, giving them points and character profiles in an ongoing Massively Multiplayer Online Game built around playful web annotation. Our game is called PMOG, and our company is called GameLayers (http://www.gamelayers.com/). The pmog.com backend is a Ruby on Rails site that talks to a FireFox extension. We're looking for Ruby/Rails developers to work at our offices in San Francisco with experience of REST, Ajax, gaming and web browsing!

Web App Advisor

prophetsearcher — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:03:53 -0800

I know, I know, you've heard it a million times. But this one is for real. A friend and I have been working on a web app idea that has real potential. We've hammered out some business plans (they're solid), scoped out the competition (it's lame) and even started tossing around some names (that's fun). But, you guessed it, we don't actually have the damn site. Problem is, we don't really know enough about what we need to find the programmer we need. My guess, based on some research, is that we need some sort of Ruby on Rails-like guru (need not be RoR per se) to tell us what we need, and how much it will cost to build a 'prototype' and then a full version. If we like you, we'll even give you the job. But for now, we just want to pay you to give us the straight dope. Please be in New York City . We're looking for someone local so we can all sit together, speak openly, and generally gain the nuances and subtleties of human interaction. Also, please send me links to your work - particularly web-app type projects you've managed. The more, the merrier. Finally, please include a reasonable fee for an hour or so of chatting at a Starbucks and honestly and fairly 'downloading' your knowledge to us.

Rails Web Developer

esd — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:28:35 -0800

mSpoke, a cool little startup in downtown Pittsburgh, is looking for an experienced Ruby developer to build data-driven web applications that sit on top of smart technology to deliver personalized content to end users. Our front end uses Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript. Our backend uses Java. Contact us if you are smart, creative and passionate about the code and products that you create. We offer competitive salary and full benefits. This is a full-time permanent position. How to apply: Send cover letter and resume or portfolio to careers@mspoke.com. No recruiters please.