Ruby job opening in Evanston

[Jeff]

Hi all,

My employer asked me to spread the word about a Ruby job opening at
Leapfrog Online (www.leapfrogonline.com). Feel free to contact me (or
use the email address in the job ad below) if you're interested or
have questions.

Thanks,
Jeff
cohen...@gmail.com


Leapfrog Online is looking for web developers who want to work with
Ruby, Rails and other open source technologies to build complex web
applications. We offer competitive salaries and benefits and a close-
knit team who like what they do. If you enjoy collaborating with both
business and technical experts to solve interesting problems, you’re
our kind of programmer and we’d like to talk to you.

What we’re looking for in particular:

• We look for real-world experience using Ruby frameworks (Rails,
Sinatra, Rack) to build high-traffic web sites and applications.
Experience with other languages, particularly Python, is welcome.

• While we don’t expect any graphic design skills from our
programmers, they should be comfortable in the world of HTML, CSS and
JavaScript.

• You should have a love of testing and test-driven development. You
should know how to write standard Rails unit tests or to use testing
tools like RSpec, test/spec, Cucumber or Shoulda.

• We expect our programmers to have a thorough understanding of common
web application concepts and technologies, such as HTTP, SSL, XML and
associated technologies, content management concepts, public-key
cryptography, application and data security and privacy issues, and
basic TCP/IP networking.

• Big plusses: Experience producing and consuming web services (SOAP,
REST, XML-RPC); experience working with message-oriented systems (AMQP
or other message, pub-sub and task queues); an interest in non-RDBMS
data stores (CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis); knowing what it really means to
develop RESTful applications; experience with functional and
declarative programming models in addition to object-oriented
development.

• We expect our programmers to have non-trivial experience with any
SQL-based RDBMS (PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server experience is
especially useful) in the form of writing efficient queries and
executing them via programming language interfaces.

• We like programmers who have experience with Agile methodologies
(Scrum in particular) and pragmatic engineering practices like test-
driven development, object-oriented design, refactoring, DRY design,
the YAGNI ethic, version control systems (Mercurial and Subversion in
particular), continuous integration, pair programming, and doing code
reviews.

• We’d prefer a bachelor’s degree and/or 3-5 years experience relating
to web-based software development using open source technologies. We
expect our programmers to be able to present their ideas and
demonstrate their work to technical and non-technical audiences in
writing and in person. We will want to see code samples.

EMAIL your résumé, which must include salary history, to
techpo...@leapfrogonline.com

To see all of our open positions at Leapfrog Online, please visit
www.leapfrogonline.com