[job] Ruby Developer at Envato

[Mark Mansour]

Envato's mission is to help people to earn and to learn, online.  We

operate marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of people buy and

sell digital goods every day, and a network of educational blogs where

millions learn creative skills.

We're putting together a team to handle the finance and payments

components of the Envato marketplace systems.  This role is primarily

a backend role, with a focus on integration and API work, but we also

expect that you're a pretty comfortable working the full stack.

We'd expect you know how to write well isolated tests, you value

pragmatic design, want to easily deploy to production and care about

writing good software.  That's what we do.  If you're interested in

working at a company that strives for technical excellence, is

relaxed, humane, lets you make decisions and makes products that our

customers love then we'd love to chat with you.  No pressure.

What you'll be doing

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* Writing clean, well thought out and reliable code to integrate 

  with our new accounting systems and with external payment 

  providers - there is a lot of integration and API work in 

  this role

* Acquiring finance and payments domain knowledge and an understanding

  of the company's business model

* Providing input into the design of the payment and finance core services

* We don't have testers or sysadmins so you'll be ensuring your 

  work is production ready and deployed

What We've Got

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* A Great Company

  * We're 6 years old, bootstrapped, profitable, and proud. (We 

    were even featured in the 37signals series of the same name.)

    From our home page:

      Our mission is to help people to earn and to learn, online. We

      operate marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of people buy 

      and sell digital goods every day, and a network of educational

      blogs where millions learn creative skills.

* A Great Set of Sites

  * We now have 9 marketplaces, with over a 2.5 million items for

    sale, and 2 million users.  Our biggest marketplace is

    ThemeForest, which is the clear leader in its space, and has an

    Alexa rank of around 200.  Our newest is PhotoDune. It launched

    last year, now has a million photos, and is considered a serious

    player in the stock photo industry.  Our users are engaged and

    passionate. They tell us quick smart on the forums when we do

    something well or do it badly.

* A Great Team and Culture

  * We're careful about hiring, and have built a team of great devs.

  * Developers are responsible for features from inception through to

    them being in the hands of customers. The devs talk directly to

    customers about what they're working on.

  * We do continuous delivery properly: any team member can deploy,

    and we regularly do several deploys a day.

  * We publish portions of our code as open source, and contribute

    back to open source projects we use.

  * We run weekly retro and education sessions, and constantly

    encourage our team to improve their craft.

  * We have a low politics-to-actual-work ratio.

Essential Requirements

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* Be a nice person

* Communicate well in person and in writing

* Be a curious person committed to continual learning

* Be capable of writing clean, well thought out, and reliable code

Preferred Requirements

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* Be a nice person && be funny

* Have commercial experience with interpreted languages, especially

  Ruby and Rails

* Have experience of other high volume/scale web apps

* Have solid TDD/BDD experience (and the ability to mentor juniors in

  this skill)

* Contribute to Open Source projects

* Past experience in other agile environments

To apply email us at tech...@envato.com with the subject line "You

rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles." and attach your CV, a

(very) short cover letter explaining something about tech or the web

that you're really passionate about, and a link to or zip file of code

samples. A github account full of awesome open source goodness would

be preferable to the zipfile.

Details

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This is a full time job, based in Melbourne's CBD and we want you to

work on site.  We pay competitive rates based on experience.

Contractors, part-timers, or remote workers probably shouldn't apply.

PS. For Recruiters: Please don't contact us. Seriously.