[LRUG] Ruby job at Playlouder

[Matthew Willson]

Dear all,

Hope you don't mind the job plug - perhaps some of you will remember  
my talk a while back about a widget-based web framework in Ruby. As it  
turns out, things are starting to take off at Playlouder, the music  
start-up for which it was developed - and we're looking to hire a  
third developer.

This isn't quite your vanilla Rails development job - we're pushing  
Ruby in some interesting directions. But it should offer some great  
opportunities for talented Ruby sorts to play with music services,  
messaging and rich web application development, and help scale them  
within ISP networks.

Full detail follows for those interested - feel free to email me with  
any questions, especially if you're interested how we're using Ruby :)

-Matt



Music Service Developer

Playlouder MSP has been working with ISPs and the music industry to  
develop both an innovative business model for music consumption, and  
innovative user experiences around music and communication to  
complement ISPs’ offerings.

As a key addition to our small but growing development team, you will  
be critical in helping to refine, scale and roll out our application  
and service to white-label ISP clients.

Key requirements

     * Background in computer science, mathematics, software  
engineering or similar (degree or equivalent experience)
     * A solid technical all-rounder with software development  
experience on sizeable projects

The specifics

Our work involves all of the following, and you’ll be tackling  
problems involving many of them:

     * Dynamic languages (experience with Ruby, on which our current  
implementation is based, would be particularly desirable)
     * Rich web application development with a large Javascript-based  
client-side portion
     * A modular, widget-based user interface framework for the above
     * Databases (MySQL at present), data modeling and ORM tools
     * Unix-based deployment environments
     * Large volumes of media, media metadata and usage statistics
     * Web services APIs, and large-scale integration work
     * Server push technologies, and scaling applications with a live  
messaging component
     * Common agile software development tools, processes and  
techniques - source control, bug tracking, testing etc
     * A warehouse full of music geeks :)

Some other things which you might get to play with:

     * Other languages - Java, Python, C, possibly Erlang (see  
‘messaging’ above), …
     * Messaging technologies like AMQP, ActiveMQ, XMPP
     * Music technology R&D projects
     * Lots more in a fast-growing company

In return we can offer challenging problems in an interesting domain,  
competitive pay, and a great work environment for music fans in our E2  
warehouse!

Enquiries to matthew at playlouder.com

Company site: http://mediaserviceprovider.com/