[JOB] East Agile is hiring Ruby on Rails programmers for its new Bangalore office

[Thomas Elam]

East Agile
http://www.eastagile.com

Company Profile
East Agile is a brand for a global software development enterprise spanning Vietnam, India, Hong Kong and USA. We work on new Internet ventures with clients from San Francisco to New York to Paris.  East Agile was the first company in Vietnam to work entirely using Ruby on Rails, eXtreme Programming and other agile software development practices.

Company Size
Presently, about 15; doubling in the first half of 2011

Career Position: Web and Mobile Application Developer
Following is a description of what your work life at East Agile India will be like, if you get accepted as an employee.

Most of the time you will work normal hours with Vietnamese and American colleagues in our Bangalore office. At other times you may need to work at odd hours to discuss your work with colleagues around the world. Work is intense, but relaxed. The environment in the office is fun and informal, and the work hours are limited so you can stay sharp, get lots of rest and have a life outside of work (like blogging about technology).

Following is a profile of a successful job candidate.

You want to work closely with other top programmers in Viet Nam and the USA. You want to become one of the best Web developers in the World. You want to work in an Agile programming environment (see http://www.extremeprogramming.org/) and learn Ruby on Rails to develop world-class applications for the web and for mobile devices.

You will work closely with top programmers from Silicon Valley and Viet Nam interactively on the same code, speaking in English while interactively adding tests and features and refactoring your work. Those other programmers had better be good if they are going to keep up with you! You work fast. You might be a game programmer. You like working with other people and do not need to work alone. You know that your English verbal communications skills are more than adequate for technical work. You have probably spent time working closely with English speakers in the past.  

You have an intuitive understanding of object oriented programming and can develop applications rapidly. You already know an object oriented programming language very well, and if you don't know Ruby on Rails, you are sure you can learn it, like any language, in a few weeks. Refactoring and test based development are familiar concepts.

You work hard and play hard like all East Agile employees. Fun times include a lot more than the usual birthday parties in conference rooms.

Benefits Enjoyed by all East Agile Developers

• High salary.
• End-of-year bonus.
• Project bonus typically about INR 4,200/month per team member.*
• Health insurance.*
• About INR 11,600 per year to spend on dental, vision, drugs, and outpatient medical expenses.*
• Lunch expense: about INR 85/lunch delivered to the office.*
• Free snack, including coffee, tea, fruit, yogurt, etc.

• Flexible working time: as long as you can negotiate with team partners/clients and work for 8 hours per day.
• No work on Saturday or holidays and only rare requests for overtime.
• 15 days of annual leave.*
• Company gifts for major festivals and holidays such as Republic Day, Gandhi Jayanti, Diwali, Maha Shivratri, Eid ul-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Christmas, Guru Nanak Jayanti, etc.*
• Various tokens of appreciation from the company.

*I will have to verify these details with company executives, because the relevant policies for our new Bangalore office have not been finalized, so far as I know.

Prerequisites for the Position

• 1 year of job experience. Some positions available for new graduates and interns.
• Educational attainment: pre-university college graduation.
• Excellent logic skills.
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills.
• Preferably demonstrable knowledge of Ruby on Rails or Java.
• You are NOT REQUIRED to know ANY particular programming language.
• Intermediate-level verbal English communications skills.
• Familiarity with Unix (Mac OS X, Linux command line).
• Familiar with test based development, refactoring and programming in an IDE.
• Willing to work closely and continuously with other programmers, almost never programming alone.

Special Consideration for These Skills

• Mobile platform development: iPhone, gPhone or Blackberry.
• JavaScript, CSS and Ajax.
• Database skills: SQL or database management.

How to Submit Your Resume
Please submit your resume as an uncompressed plain text, pdf or doc (Microsoft Word) file to tom.elam at eastagile dot com, to lawrence at eastagile dot com, and to ken at eastagile dot com.