please email resume to al @ eQuestSolutions.com

Sr. Ruby Developers and a Hands-on Ruby Manager/Lead
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contract or Full Time/Perm
Rate/Salary: Completely Open (DOE) + bonus

The Manager role consists of 50% hands on Ruby development and 50% management of the following team/product.

The Sr. Ruby Developers will be part of newly created team that is responsible for researching, investigating, evaluating, designing and developing middle tier services that will drive and enhance the latest products from this cutting edge division. The Sr. Ruby developer will work along side and with extremely intelligent and bright engineers in the full life cycle development process consisting of development of and review of architecture documentation, building of prototypes, issue identification, Ruby development, testing process, deployment, enhancement and documentation. This newly created team is looking for Ruby engineers to work on one of two projects:
3. Design, build, develop and enhance the middle tier services layer the lies in between the search engine systems and Web and Mobile presentation layer. The Ruby Engineers will develop code and API’s that accesses and retrieves data from the search engine and returns results, using JSON and XML to the Web and/or Mobile presentation layer. Depending on the experience level, the Sr. Ruby Engineer will be responsible for designing, architecting/re-architecting and developing prototypes and large scalable production systems.
4. Research the latest technologies for NLP/Natural Language Processing, Information/Data/Text Retrieval, indexing, Data Mining/Parsing, user intent, etc. and implement into the middle tier services layer using Ruby.
The Sr. Ruby Engineer will report to the Engineering Manager.

This newly created team uses and encourages the use of bleeding edge technology. They are more concerned with your ability to solve complex problems/issues than what technology you use.

The company offers full benefits (PPO & HMO) including dental and vision, 401K, Stock Options and Purchase Plans, 2 weeks vacation, 8 paid sick days, Short and Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, casual dress and flexible work hours that all start upon employment.

REQUIREMENTS:
Mandatory:
MUST HAVE significant experience developing Ruby (or Ruby on Rails) both on the middle/back tier, including API’s
MUST HAVE experience developing the front end/presentation layer applications using JSON and/or XML
MySQL
Knowledge of and/or experience with Web Services Standards (SOAP, REST XML, Spring Remoting, RPC, JAX-WS or WSDL)
Plus:
Solr or Lucene or pylucene or compass or nutch or knowmydestination or krugle or moxdex or wikia search or hibernate search or xapian or tika or EB-eye or liferay or other search engine
Understanding of NLP/Natural Language Processing, Information/Data/Text Retrieval, indexing, Data Mining/Parsing, user intent, etc..
MVC
Hadoop/MapReduce frameworks or Cloud Computing
Java or PHP or Python
Should have Bachelors and/or Masters and/or PhD in C.S. or related degree

*Company will offer relocation assistance. *

With your resume submittal, please answer the following questions:

Are you a U.S. citizen or green card or H1 Visa holder?

If a Visa holder, can your Visa be permanently transferred to my client for a full time permanent position?

Do you prefer a permanent or contract position?

What is your current base salary or contract rate (W-2 or 1099)?

What salary range are you considering (please do not respond *negotiable* or similar).

Why did you leave your last 3 employers?

If you are not located in Southern California, when are you confirmed to be in Southern Ca?

If applicable, do you require relocation assistance?