Seeking Mediocre Ruby Devs: Flippa.com

[Chris Corbyn]

Hi All,

We're hiring for junior and senior web devs at Flippa. If you are looking for full-time work, or know somebody who might be interested, flick an email directly through to me. Some of you probably know us from Railscamp, RubyKaigi or the regular meetups in Melbourne. We're in the same building as 99designs and SitePoint, in Collingwood.

Cheers,

Chris

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/22396/seeking-mediocre-ruby-devs-flippa

== Job Description

Everyone's looking for great devs, and of course so are we. But aren't you sick of job listings which say "Kick-Ass" or "Ninja" or "Brilliant" or "Best of the Best"? I am.

We need devs, senior or junior, who want to work in a small but high-class team which gets shit done. We're good at making software and we're fairly agnostic and flexible about the technology we use to do it - eighteen months ago we decided we hated PHP and since then we've moved about 70% of our code to Rails. The two apps share a MySQL DB.

jenkins runs tests for us. "bundle exec cap deploy" takes our code straight to AWS and into production, where it's served by a clever mixture of nginx, varnish, perlbal, unicorn and apache. Around the edges there's memcache, redis/resque, sphinx. No Mongo at this point. Our newer apps are often on Heroku, using Postgres instead of MySQL and maybe DataMapper instead of ActiveRecord.

Your role in this is to slot into the team and build quality software. Mostly this means writing Ruby and RSpec specs, but there might be a bit of PHP in there as well until we eradicate it. You'll probably have strong opinions on tech choices and dev process, and that's a good thing.

Oh yeah, brogrammers, corporate types and emacs users probably shouldn't bother applying.

== Skills & Requirements

You just need to be a proper web dev. It would be great if you were already perfect at Ruby and PHP but if you're good enough we're pretty sure you can pick up what you need.

== About Flippa

Flippa's the biggest marketplace for buying and selling websites. We're very profitable and growing strongly. We have a relaxed workplace in Melbourne, the town with the best coffee in the world. Not to mention some amazing food.

Once a month we have Triple Time - three straight days to work on whatever you want. Mid-year we go away on a team retreat for a week. At the end of the year, we celebrate with a few nights at the beach. We have a great team and we actually like working together.

[Keith Pitt]

Should people only apply if they're seeking a mediocre boss?

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@keithpitt

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[Mike Bailey]

Hey Keith, it's not obvious whether your comment is simply word play or a warning to other devs based on your knowledge. I'm pretty sure it was meant in jest but that's only because I know you, which others on the list don't.

I think Chris wrote a good ad and was quick to explain the eye catching subject line. It got my attention.

It's hard to predict how other people will receive comments online but rewarding responses to participation strengthen online communities. I think most people fear putting themselves out there and seeing how others are received influences their decision to participate.

:-)

Sent from my iPhone

[Pat Allan]

The list is pretty heavily moderated, though some accounts (generally those who've been on the list longer) have auto-posting privileges. Hence the delays in some messages appearing.

Also: generally we like job threads to be the original single post, then locked, to avoid too much chatter. Doing that now for this thread - I think the not-quite-serious tone of Chris's original email has been made clear.

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Pat

On 05/08/2012, at 7:18 AM, Chris Corbyn wrote:

> Thanks Mike,
>
> I gathered it was a tongue-in-cheek comment too, following along the lines of the original subject. It is all just a bit of fun really :)
>
> It's interesting, the stackoverflow careers guys actually got in touch to say they had to double-check their figures as they thought there may have been a bug—the number of applicants coming through the site is much more than they're used to (likely due to the silly heading). We've never used them before, but I can recommend them after this experience. They make managing shortlists really simple and visual and of course, your ad pops up in the sidebar of a really active community of developers, based on whatever tags you associate with it.
>
> Chris
>
> PS: I had replied to Keith's message by e-mail to the list, and then to this, but it appears, upon looking at the Google Groups website, that my replies have been going into a black hole. Google Groups just made me confirm a few things on my account, so hopefully that's now fixed!

> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/__dXsOV0KBYJ.