[LRUG] [JOBS] ruby dev for an london based internet startup lovethis

[Stuart Dillon]

Hello

We are looking for a ruby developer to join our team.  We are a small internet startup (good funding) and we are building out an API with a web and iOS client. Check out our iPhone app and web lovethis.com - its all still beta.

Below is the usual job spec but we are flexible so drop me an email and lets arrange a chat  our  offices in soho and lets see if this might be something for you.

cheers
Stuart


Our current stack

Ruby/Rails, Rspec, Redis, MySQL,  Objective-C


Team
3 developers  - 2 x Senior Ruby Devs & 1 x iOS
1 technical project manager
1 business person (CEO/founder)

Desired technical skills in addition to being an awesome Ruby developer

Scripting
• Rackspace API integration (server integration & cloud files) • Build deployment system (Capistano/Ruby)
• Platform Provisioning System (Rackspace API)
• Platform configuration (Puppet/Chef/Vagrant etc)

DB
• Mysql & Mysql replication
• Redis (and probably some other nosql solutions)

Server Administration (and all that entails) • RedHat (or other linux distros)
• Nginx & Passenger
• RVM

• Monit / God
• Munin
• Security
• Knowledge of networking, load balancers, firewalls etc 

Company

LoveThis lets you swap recommendations between friends. It connects you with your friends via your existing social groups, including Facebook and email; and makes it easy to give and get recommendations via the web, mobile phone and Twitter. Word-of-mouth is currently inefficient – finding the right person for a recommendation is accidental; remembering that recommendation is the exception. LoveThis makes word-of-mouth simple, quick, and efficient.

LoveThis helps customers to navigate the incredible number of choices they have on how to spend their time and money, by giving them access to the tried and tested recommendations of the people they trust most – their friends. By doing so, it helps consumers:

• find new things to do, with the confidence that they’ll enjoy them.
• save time searching for the best solutions.
• swap things which they've already enjoyed amongst their friends,quickly and easily. 



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> I'm a freelance UI/Javascript developer working on a personal project.
> I'm looking for a rails developer based in London to take on a few days of billed work helping me build out the rails side of my application.
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