Job Details: Senior Ruby Developer
| Job Title: | Senior Ruby Developer |
| Company: | Zazengo |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | competitive |
| Skills: | Ruby, Rails |
| Date Posted: | Feb-20-08 |
Tired of working in jobs that leave you unfulfilled because they don't create positive impact in the world? Come work for Zazengo, where each line of code you write helps people change the world.
Zazengo is a free, shared, online platform for inspiring, managing and tracking impact. We help everyone from individuals to international organizations by providing them with a set of self-organizing tools and a way of viewing the positive change they are making.
The platform matches user interest, location, skills and experience to suggest new projects, and employs syndication widgets and social networking applications to embed 'awareness into action' wherever it needs to be.
Zazengo is advertising and sponsorship supported, and shares revenue back with the ecosystem that is generating the traffic and leading the on the ground action. Zazengo turns constituency management from a cost to a revenue stream for not for profit orgs.
The opportunity presents many challenges. The Senior Ruby Developer will be responsible for:
• Working on a daily basis in the codebase, implementing new features, improving existing ones, refactoring as needed.
• Working with the lead developer to define/refine requirements and implement the technology plan.
• Being a core part of the in-house technology team, helping to maintain the live site while also pushing forward new development
Zazengo is largely virtual with most of the team residing in Santa Cruz, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Boston.
Zazengo is seeking the right person to take our technical team and platform from beta through launch and scaling to sustainable profitability. The right candidate will combine the following:
• An excellent working knowledge (and love) of programming in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Up-to-date on latest Edge Rails technology and tools
• A strong understanding of emerging web technologies and practices including widgets, advertising engines, RSS/Atom feeds, CMS tools, social network connectivity, APIs, and standards including OpenId and OpenSocial, especially in regards to their implementation using Ruby and Rails.
• A passion for clean, simple, elegant and delightful design, at both the interface and system/code level.
• A proven track record of developing and scaling open source based web systems.
• A stong belief in the benefits of test-driven development, either Test::Unit or Rspec.
• Complete familiarity with "standard" development toolset, such as SVN (Git would be a plus), Trac, Basecamp
• Excellent writing and speaking skills.
• Experience in working collaboratively with virtual or largely virtual teams.
| Location: | - |
| Telecommute: | Yes |
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| Contact Email: | jobs@zazengo.com |
| URL: | http://www.zazengo.com |
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