We're hiring!

[dana tassler]

Hello All,

We are looking for an experienced Rails Developer to join our small team!

I won't lay on a sales pitch about our company, just wanted to see if anyone in the Madison area is looking, or knows of someone who might be.

Hope all is doing well and staying warm.

Thank you.

-- Dana

[Steve Faulkner]

Happy to pass info on but some minimal info would be helpful. At least a sentence about the company and a link to the website. Or even a name to google to get to the website. 

The extreme undersell :)

Steve

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[dana tassler]

Here's more info, just in case. And thank you, Steve! 

Our company, Advanced Project Solutions (site here) is a small company headquartered on the east side of Madison. We get telecommunications work done for several clients across the country, even Puerto Rico. We are a closely-knit group of hardworking people. The owners of the company were telecommunications technicians themselves and reward us constantly. Every Friday, Memorial Day through Labor Day, we have cookouts. Bagels are served on an employee's birthday. Occasionally pizza pit will be brought in for no reason whatsoever. And every now and then, breakfast from Marigold Kitchen will be provided! We have a summer party at Noah's Ark and a holiday party at Prime Quarter (with an open bar). There are other standard benefits as well, which I'm happy to provide.

Our development department maintains and upgrades a ticketing system which our coworkers and clients use. It runs on FreeBSD and is Ruby 1.9.3 with Rails 3.2.1. As a small department within a small company, we perform all hardware system administrative duties ourselves. Our development PCs are Ubuntu 12.04.

Our ideal candidate has 5+ years of full time experience working with Rails. As I'm currently in North Carolina (temporarily) for the next year or so, he/she will be working as part of a distributed team. Will need to be able to work with little to no supervision and have stellar interpersonal communication skills. This isn't a position where you'll be tucked away in a dark closet, our users (coworkers) depend on people who can communicate effectively.

The other half of our two-man team is currently on medical leave, but once he returns he will need to be mentored by someone on-site. 

We're constantly upgrading our application and striving to innovate. While we do have some complex features to design and implement (which will take time), most of our features are released quickly. Though we do value speedy turnaround time, we have no hard deadlines except those we define. Our mission is to create code which is perfectly functional. We have to get it right. 

Can certainly provide more technical details but hopefully this is a good start.

Thanks for listening, all. And if you're putting your feelers out to people you believe may like it here, thank you!

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