Ruby on Rails

Position: Ruby on Rails Developer

Location: Portland, Oregon

Duration: 12+ Months

Interview: Skype and Telephonic

Experience: 9+ years

Ideally looking for 2 resources with the attached skill set who can start ASAP. The successful candidate will join a high performing agile development team focused on developing, enhancing, and supporting complex applications with HTML5/Backbone JS/JavaScript/jQuery on the front-end and Rails 4 and PHP5/Zend Framework on the back-end. Candidate should have strong knowledge of Rails 4 and PHP5 with experience in large frameworks. Understanding of and creating and using a RESTful API and knowledge of security best practices is a plus. Experience performance-tuning existing code to increase performance and decrease resource utilization is a plus.

Candidate will participate in development meetings with other team members, develop and deliver plans and associated estimates for software solutions and track and provide feedback for your work. You will be working in an environment where high performance, high quality and attention to detail are expected.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for software development and documentation
• Responsible for setting work cadence and ensuring tight deadlines are met and exceeded
• Responsible for creating unit-tests as required

Qualifications

• Terrific attitude and enthusiastic demeanor
• 9+ yrs hands-on Rails/PHP development experience
• Ability to prioritize own work, multi-task, and meet deadlines
• Strong knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of data structures and OO design patterns.
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related field or combination of work experience and education