The Position
Site5 is seeking a full-time, mid-level Ruby on Rails developer. The chosen candidate will be working from home with a small group of top-notch, highly knowledgeable developers who are passionate about their code. You will be working on writing a group of related Rails 3.2 applications which are being developed in-house from scratch. The applications will replace our CRM & billing system, Synco, and our client account manager, Backstage. You can read more about them at
http://www.eng5.com.
Why should you work at Site5?
Site5 is a well-established company with more than 10 years of experience in the web hosting industry and more than 350,000 websites hosted. Site5 is built on top of open source software; we understand how important open source is and remain very active in the community. More information is available on our projects page. Don't forget to have a peek at our GitHub organization.
Here are a few other reasons you will enjoy working for Site5.
You will become a better software engineer by working through problems with highly talented and opinionated engineers.
We use GitHub to build our applications.
You will be working from the comfort of your home anywhere in the world!
We are a small company with under 100 team members and have some great opportunities to move up and further your career!
All employees receive 20 days of paid time off per year and increases to 25 days after three years.
Health/dental/vision insurance is available to U.S. employees.
Your input and suggestions matter, and we encourage them.
We encourage learning new skills and we will pay for the books to help. We want you to grow and move up in the company. Your success is our success!
Emphasis on using and contributing to open source software.
Creative and fun atmosphere. Our development team is just as passitionate about their music as they are their code.
Flexible schedule.
Variety of problems to solve.
Freedom to use the tools you want to develop our software.
Skill Requirements
Ruby and object-oriented programming (3+ years)
Rails (1+ years)
Testing (RSpec/Shoulda is used on most projets, Test::Unit on the others)
PostgreSQL or MySQL database design
jQuery
API integration experience
Modern HTML & CSS skills
Comfortable working with Git
Opinionated
Additional Skills desired
Systems Admin background
SOAP
Sinatra
Rack
Active::Merchant
Gem Authoring
SCSS
CoffeeScript
Involved in open source projects
PostgreSQL and MySQL performance tuning
Please include a link to your GitHub profile when you submit your resume.
http://www.site5.com/about/careers/