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Location: Austin TX (Local preferred, we can help with relocation. We will consider remote for the right candidate)
Employer: OneSpot Inc.
Job title: Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer
Salary: Negotiable + early stage stock options
== Company overview
OneSpot is a technology startup that provides tools and services to organizations large and small to help them promote articles and related content, both that created by themselves, and third-party content that they would like more people to see. We have an experienced management team, we’re funded, and despite getting started just 6 months ago, we already have a number of household name customers. We use Ruby on Rails for our self-service user interface, and Java for most of our behind-the-scenes engineering.
== The candidate
We are looking for a talented Ruby on Rails developer with an excellent design aesthetic, and that has a passion for designing fluid user interfaces, but also a solid understanding of Rails’ internal mechanics.
== Essential requirements
Deep understanding of Ruby on Rails 3.2, and related tools (Active Record, etc)
Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Familiarity with Linux (bash etc) and MySQL
Familiarity with version control systems
Excellent communication and people skills
Fluent in English
Eligible to work in United States (US citizen, green card holder, etc)
== Experience of the following would be a significant advantage
JSON and REST APIs
Open source development (please include links to your open source work)
Java
Git
Usability testing
Display advertising networks
If you are interested please send your resume and/or any questions to ian at onespot dot com.