Ruby Jobs in Fairfield County, CT

We are looking for a Ruby Software Engineer to build best-of-breed products that combine internally and externally build applications for a rich user experience on a large B2C and B2B web network.

Specifically, he/she will:
? Develop and maintain web applications in Ruby that use the Rails framework
? Integrate their applications into various content management systems including OpenCMS and Drupal
? Integrate with display-layer technologies including Javascript, AJAX, Flex, and Flash
? Maintain a knowledgebase of code, process, and useful things in wiki?s
? Balance technology development with business project objectives
? Administer and manage version control with Subversion and various content management systems including OpenCMS, Drupal, and MovableType
? Coordinate release planning and site deployment working in partnership with the VP of Application Development, System Architect, and System Administration functions.
? Maintain database architecture; implement data models, database designs, data access, table maintenance, and code changes.
? Coordinate and migrate changes into UAT, Production, across all levels of the technology stack.


Requirements

? Fun, happy, energetic player with a fantastic team-oriented development philosophy
? Comfortable gliding in and out of new technologies and embracing projects that ?reduce the number of lines of code?.
? Experience working with various open source applications and integrating them into an enterprise framework.
? Demonstrated mastery in building applications for other large organizations.
? Experience with large-scale content management or e-commerce systems including OpenCMS and Drupal.
? Experience with Ruby-On-Rails, PHP, PostgreSQL, Java, MySQL, RedHat, FreeBSD. B2C a plus. 90% of our codebase is in Java Struts but we are working on migrating a chunk to Rails.
? 5 years of web application development in a B2C environment.
? Experience with Single Sign On, Session Management, and Load balancing technologies.
? Strong written and verbal communication skills including analytical capabilities, specification gathering/writing, and troubleshooting skills.
? Highly motivated, able to work both in a team and solo.
? Must be able to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.
? Excellent communication skills.
? BS/MS in CS or related degree.

Bonus Requirements

? Previous start-up experience.
? Likes to play multiplayer video games. Well.


Please send me an email if you know of anyone that might be interested in this.

Thanks!

Dave.

dscollard at cambridgegroup dot com