[LRUG] Ruby Developer Required @ JobsGoPublic.com

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

Dear Friends,

Levent (http://is.gd/3Tne) has decided to leave JGP,
so we're in need of a really smart Rubyist to come and work with us in his
stead.

Are you that person?

If you are interested, and want to meet the team then have a read of this (
http://gist.github.com/16302)
and get back to me.

I'll be at LRUG on Monday 13th for some hardcore quiz action! (
http://is.gd/3TmS)
So come find me!
I look like this (http://is.gd/3Tn9)

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Ruby Developer Required @ JobsGoPublic.com

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The Company - JobsGoPublic.com
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- "Not just a job site"
- based in Aldgate / Tower Hill (the warehouse used in Dragon's Den)
- Working in Rails for almost three years
- 400,000 monthly unique visitors
- 35,000 jobs posted in 2007
- A network of almost 200 "powered sites" running off a single core application
- An impressive bunch of creative people (full of keen photographers,
musicians, and at least one "baton twirler")


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The Challenges
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- How to deal with "legacy code"? *
- How to trim, streamline, and optimise our current system?
- How to integrate and co-develop with a non-agile, non-TDD,
India-based outsourced system?
- How to get rid of one-off client requests, and present a single,
coherent, but incredibly usable SAAS offering?

* "legacy" because we've grown so much since we first started using Rails


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The Toys
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- Technology : Ruby, Rails, Rspec
- Storage and Search : MySQL, Solr
- Ideologies : TDD, Scrum, "keep it real"
- Hardware : iMac, MacBook Pro, Ubuntu
- Web Services : Agileista, Lighthouse, Campfire, Github
- Profiling / Monitoring : New Relic, Exceptional, God, Roodi


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The Perks
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- An AMAZING ScrumMaster!
- Time and space to "do it right"
- Flexible working & NO late nights
- Team meals, breakfast, and drinks
- A table football table
- RailsConf, maybe even in Vegas
- Scope to try out creative / crazy ideas
- A salary less than £100k


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You are
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- Experienced with Ruby and Rails
- Into Agile Development
- Test-driven to the Core
- Based in or near London
- Keen on working in an exciting and capable Agile team


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More Info
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- http://jobsgopublic.com
- http://jgp.co.uk
- http://blog.jobsgopublic.com
- http://github.com/jgp
- http://github.com/matthewrudy
- http://twitter.com/jobsgopublic
- http://is.gd/3Tom

- matthew.jacobs at JGP.co.uk
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