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hello, we need a ruby on rails developer!

Agency.com London is looking to hire a passionate, motivated and generally wonderful Lead Ruby on Rails developer to join our small in-house technical team, based in the heart of London's SOHO.

As a RoR developer, reporting to our lead RoR developer, you'll be driving the continued development of a major social media project. We're a small team of 8, but growing fast, and you'll have input into the decisions we take as a department. Lots of good stuff.

You'll be working directly with the designers and information architect to keep everything running smoothly; no big project team or half your time in meetings. Sound interesting? then read on...

things we need you to have:

• Ruby on Rails site/app development in an Apache webserver, MySQL and mod_rails environment.

• Comfortable with Rails 2.2.2, Ruby 1.8.6, MySQL

• Solid Object Oriented Javascript skills (think AJAX and JSON)

• Solid version control approach using Subversion

• Solid approach to documentation, code commenting and change control.

having some of this stuff too is a bonus:

• Knowledge and use of Rspec/Test::Unit and TDD

• Linux server configuration skills; Fedora 9/Redhat ES

• Knowledge of, and experience with any of the following; Memcache, Squid, and Javascript frameworks such as MooTools, facebooker, attachment_fu, and the YouTube API.

this is what we'll need you to do:

• You will be the lead developer on a social media oriented web project, for a blue chip client.

• Working with the Senior Technologist, Project Manager, Designers and Information Architect, scope out the development plan.

• Develop functional prototypes as needed to demonstrate the validity or usefulness of specific project areas.

• Develop the site as per the agreed functional specification and phased launch schedule, working with additional technical folks as required.

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance

• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)

• Pension

• Season Ticket Loan

• Eye care

• Corporate gym membership

• Taste London Discount Card

• Ride2work scheme

• 25 days holiday per year (plus three days between Christmas and New Year)

Contact

• Please send your CV with examples of your work to our Talent Advisor, Sophie Theadom job+296@railsjobs.in

Applications are now closed.