[Ruby] ActiveRain hiring

[ben wiseley]

Hey guys - I'm pretty sure it was OK to post ruby jobs here... if not, I
really apologize.  The company I'm working for is looking for 2 more people
(the lack of unit tests weren't my call, I know how this list is going to
feel about that, I'm embarrassed to mention that... but that's the gig)
That said - it's a pretty flex place to work and the people are cool ...

Company:  http://activerain.com (yes, we're finally got a designer so it'll
look all 2.0 soon :)

*The Job Description:*
ActiveRain is a year old, angel funded startup looking for one or two more
Ruby-on-Rails programmer who can work in a rapidly changing business
environment in the social network / blogging space with very little
oversight.

*
The Good:
**  Super flexible work environment. We prefer to work with an in office
employee, but are open to off site contractor, and everything else in
between.
*  Very rapidly developing site (if you're dying to try your hand at writing
the core features of most Web 2.0 sites this is the company for you),
*  Ability to have large impact on the direction of the company and play in
a 300,000 plus page views a day site.
*  A great place to get large scale Rails experience.


*The Bad:*
*  We aren't venture backed and although we are good, financially, for the
next 3-6 months, forecasting further than that becomes iffy.


*Must be OK with:*
*  Very vague specs
*  Sporadic input from management
*  Occasionally insane hours
*  No testing resources
*  Legacy Rails code that was sometimes written in marathon caffeine
sessions and sometimes written by people learning Rails,
*  Little or no unit tests on much of our existing code base and not much
support for time to improve that.
*  Understanding that management bows to user demands more often then they
stick to 37 Signals design philosophy. (But they have enrolled in Designers
Anonymous and are working through those issues)
*  No experts to run to - you're going to be the expert.


*What's required:*
*  solid understanding of Model View Controller architecture
*  some Rails experience (you should have at least gone through the books
and done the sample apps)
*  very strong SQL skills
*  basic Linux skills
*  flexible personality
*  you've worked for a web startup in the past and are familiar with "this
isn't a Fortune 500 company"
*  ability to work alone for long periods of time and produce results


*What'd be great:*
*  strong Rails skills
*  you're a clone made up of Davis, Hodel and Grosenbach
*  Linux guru
*  experience scaling large Rails applications
*  experience with Rails engines http://rails-engines.org/
*  experience tuning PostgreSQL databases
*  replication experience with PostgreSQL
*  memcache's religiously

*Pay:*
*  Market rates & stock options for employees.

Contact ActiveRain's CEO, Jonathan Washburn at 425.753.3006 or
jon at activerain.com if you are interested.