Ruby on Rails Developers

Job Title:       Ruby on Rails Developer

# of Positions: 4 Vacancies

Job Location: Lanham, MD

Job Description
Alakai’s client is currently seeking two Senior RoR Developers and two Junior RoR Developers to help extend and enhance Ruby-on-Rails-based web applications. Successful candidates will join an energetic, creative, and forward-thinking team in creating dynamic Ruby on Rails applications to drive the client’s internal process and to sell its product on a high-visibility, destination e-commerce website.  The client's tech team is small, yet powerful, with each member a heavy-hitter making a competitive salary and eligible for equity options in its profitable and well-capitalized business. The ideal candidates will push the technological envelope, and should be both at the forefront of new technologies (web, mobile, etc.) and at home with current standards in web programming.

IDEAL CANDIDATES:

•       Are excited about Ruby and Ruby on Rails

•       Either know Rails or have demonstrated superior understanding of web technologies and are willing to learn quickly

•       Are passionate about good, clean code

•       Are comfortable working in a team environment with technical and non-technical people alike.

•       Have built and deployed apps for fun on their own time

•       Truly understand open source and are passionate about open code

•       Are comfortable with git and is not afraid of leaving the IDE

•       Stay on top of the latest trends in the tech world

Candidates will be responsible for programming ruby with the Ruby on Rails framework, javascript (using jQuery and Sproutcore), and test code (RSpec and Cucumber). Our client is a small business and candidates will share responsibilities, so familiarity with Linux and related service technologies (Passenger, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, etc) will help.