[JOB]Senior Rails Engineer to join world-class engineering team

[Alex Dong]

Hi folks,

We're looking for top guns to join us in this exciting journey.  We hope this job is rocking so hard that you would be willing to move down to Dunedin.

We're having YouTube's co-founder Steve Chen coming in the next 10 days.  If we like what you have built, we could arrange a meeting before he flies back to US.

If you are interested, please send your cv and whatever cool projects you've done to m...@avos.com. We will move fast.

Cheers,
Alex


Senior Rails Engineer
Engineering | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

We're looking for a talented Senior Ruby in Rails Engineer to join our NZ-based team.

Working at AVOS will give you an opportunity to take on some of the web's most interesting challenges alongside folks (including YouTube Cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen) who’ve done it before. We value our employees and offer competitive compensation and great perks. We work as a team and celebrate as a team.

If you’re passionate about technology and its ability to be a positive, disruptive force in the world, we should talk!

Responsibilities:
       • Design and develop components that provide a high degree of utility without sacrificing simplicity
       • Develop innovative features and solutions that enhance and extend our core product
       • Establish yourself as our technology leader for web application development
       • Launch early and often, iterating to take a great product to an even better place!
Qualifications:
       • 4+ years experience in software development, with in-depth focus on developing web applications
       • Expertise with Ruby programming
       • Experience with Python, Java, C/C++
       • Experience Scala, Node.js, HBase, MongoDB or Cassandra a plus
       • Up-to-date experience with latest web technologies including HTML5 and CSS3
       • Experience working in a Linux-based production environment
       • Strong design acumen and focus on user experience
       • BS or MS in computer science or equivalent experience
       • Excellent communication skills for both external and internal interactions
       • Proactive self-starter who takes ownership and works well independently and as part of a team
Strong Javascript Skills:
       • Someone who doesn't just use libraries, but understands how they work and their limitations; can build utilities when needed.
       • Practical experience organizing large js projects, managing dependencies, requiring modules, bundling, etc.
       • Experience working with different styles of inheritance, using helpers to define constructors, etc.
       • Knows how to use closures to create private scope, and other key aspects of js as a language
CSS:
       • Has an informed opinion on how to write good css -- understands oocss principles
       • Can explain the relationship (or lack thereof) between html structure and css structure
       • Bonus for anyone who can explain the problems with nested css
HTML5:
       • Bonus for anyone who is well-versed in html5 and all the cool new things it enables
Server-side:
       • Understands an MVC architecture like rails/pyramid
       • Understands the performance implications of how data is modeled and accessed
       • Can discuss the ways state is maintained/stored between requests

In general, we enjoy working with people who can quickly and fully understand a problem.  Proper framing of a problem largely shapes the solution, so getting this part right is crucial.

[Alex Dong]

Forgot to mention that we do offer relocation package as well as signup bonus, which is 27" Thunderbolt display and the latest MacBook Air with 256GB SSD.

Alex