Software Developer (Ruby/Python)
Rackspace Hosting (San Antonio, Texas)
Posted:
January 19, 2012
Address:
San Antonio, TX 78218
Description:
The Foundation software development team is growing and taking on new challenges and we need a passionate Software Developer to grow with us. We are a highly effective, disciplined, agile based, empowered team that is responsible for the communication to network devices, managed backup, storage and virtualization. Our environment is a highly scalable, distributed solution composed of Linux, MongoDB clusters, with Erlang, Python and RoR code, that allows us to provide zero downtime releases. All of these systems are controlled and directed by our utilization of Puppet. If you think that you have what it takes and want to step up to the challenge we would love to hear from you.
The developer will be responsible for the following
Lead the charge and grow junior developers
A focus on quality and testing
A commitment to iterative development with frequent releases
Gathering user requirements and turn those into code that is wicked sweet
Mentoring other developers in development best practices
Job Requirements: (Stuff you'll need to be a star)
Cleanliness and maintainability of a Ruby,Python and Erlang code base
Automated deployments using Git and Capistrano
Improving and supporting the Rails front end for our internal customers
Working with a MongoDB cluster
Experience deploying applications to Ubuntu or Red Hat Linux
Strong HTML5 and CSS skills so that you can build sites people enjoy using
Javascript skills to create complex, interactive sites
Knowing what "unobtrusive Javascript" means and having used jQuery with Rails
Strong experience with ReST, SOAP, XMLRPC
Solid experience developing web applications (7+ years)
Strong Ruby on Rails/Django development experience (3+ years)
Bonus points will be given for:
Design a database structure
Experience working/managing networking hardware
Knowledge of functional programming and use of a functional language like Erlang
Being able to speak knowledgeably about: Nginx, Passenger, Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, Rspec and Cucumber
The developer will be responsible for the following
Lead the charge and grow junior developers
A focus on quality and testing
A commitment to iterative development with frequent releases
Gathering user requirements and turn those into code that is wicked sweet
Mentoring other developers in development best practices
Job Requirements: (Stuff you'll need to be a star)
Cleanliness and maintainability of a Ruby,Python and Erlang code base
Automated deployments using Git and Capistrano
Improving and supporting the Rails front end for our internal customers
Working with a MongoDB cluster
Experience deploying applications to Ubuntu or Red Hat Linux
Strong HTML5 and CSS skills so that you can build sites people enjoy using
Javascript skills to create complex, interactive sites
Knowing what "unobtrusive Javascript" means and having used jQuery with Rails
Strong experience with ReST, SOAP, XMLRPC
Solid experience developing web applications (7+ years)
Strong Ruby on Rails/Django development experience (3+ years)
Bonus points will be given for:
Design a database structure
Experience working/managing networking hardware
Knowledge of functional programming and use of a functional language like Erlang
Being able to speak knowledgeably about: Nginx, Passenger, Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, Rspec and Cucumber
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