[LRUG] Ruby job at Playlouder

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

oh cool.
Would successful applicants get the opportunity to write their own
persistent messaging / queueing system in Erlang if they so wished?

2008/8/18 Matthew Willson <matthew at playlouder.com>

> 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/
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