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Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Job title: Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Location: 28 Bailey Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire  S1 4EH
Reporting to: Interactive Director
Salary: Neg. depending on experience + Bens

The candidate

Whitespace are looking for a talented senior RoR developer with a history of commercial web application design and development and exposure to the full project life cycle. The successful candidate must have a working knowledge of software design patterns, a clear understanding of web and system security issues and designing for best application performance. They will be at home in a Unix shell such as Bash and have a good working knowledge of Unix command line tools such as tar, sed, grep, awk and find.

Key responsibilities

  • Commercial website application design and development (min 3 years)
  • Working closely with directors and clients ensuring projects are completed on time/budget
  • Participating in client meetings when appropriate and be able to discuss technical issues in a clear and positive way to non-technical audiences
  • Keeping fully abreast of latest thinking in all areas of web development

 

Essential requirements

  • Outstanding Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris, Ruby on Rails, Apache, MySQL and PHP skills
  • Clean sheet relational database design together with very good SQL skills
  • Must have experience of importing and manipulating data with SQL scripts
  • HTML and CSS experience
  • Experience of payment gateways Good working knowledge of e-mail, FTP
  • Thorough knowledge of website accessibility guidelines and data protection practices
  • Experience working directly with clients in a highly professional manner
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent people skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to work quickly and to tight deadlines
  • Fluent in English if English is not primary language
  • Sense of humour
  • Digital agency environment background preferred

 

Experience of the following would be a distinct advantage

  • Javascript (jQuery/Prototype)
  • AJAX and dynamic HTML
  • RSpec/Cucumber/TestUnit
  • Git/Subversion
  • Redmine
  • Bash scripting
  • PostgreSQL
  • DNS and Bind
  • In-depth TCP/IP and firewalls
  • Java

 

This is a key role in a company that is not afraid to make use of cutting-edge open source technologies in order to deliver the next generation of web applications to major B2B and B2C clients.

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