[LRUG] [JOBS] Ruby and Javascropt developers wanted!

[Tim Cowlishaw]

Oops, I almost forgot - there's a 'proper' job ad here:
http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2012/5/11/msp-software-developer-junior-mid-senior
and here: http://mediasp.com/#Jobs

Cheers,

Tim


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there all,
>
> I'm currently contracting at a great little company called MSP
> (http://mediasp.com) who are desperate for some more (permanent)
> developers to join us. I've also worked here as a permanent employee
> in the not-too-distant past, back when we were called Playlouder, and
> can vouch for the fact that it's a great place to work.
>
> We make an online music service (a la Spotify, Rdio, and the like)
> that we sell as as a white-label service to ISPs, who provide it to
> their customers. We have deals with all four major labels (as well as
> the majority of the indies) and are already running successful
> services for customers in Canada and the Republic of Ireland. We're
> now in a position where we're rolling out services to more customers,
> as well as supporting our existing ones, and it's more work than our
> team of 4 devs, 1 sysadmin and 3 business-types can handle.
>
> The main customer-facing service is a thick-client javascript
> application (we use Dojo to handle many of the details), which talks
> to a JSON REST API written in Ruby. We don't use Rails for the main
> application (we've rolled our own lightweight library for exposing
> resources over HTTP [1]), but have some smaller applications that use
> it, so while we're looking for a general purpose software engineer
> rather than a Rails developer specifically, rails skills certainly
> wouldn't hurt. Aside from the main customer facing application we've
> also got several systems dealing with music ingestion, billing and
> royalty reporting that are under active development, so there are many
> and varied challenges to work on.
>
> We're very keen on doing object-oriented design well, and to that end
> we've several open source projects to help with this [2], therefore
> we'd like to find someone with a solid understanding of and
> appreciation for OO principles. We test thoroughly, and have a very
> relaxed, developer-led culture - you'll be encouraged to share in
> ownership of the product and help drive its functionality, rather than
> just implementing features dreamt up by someone else.
>
> We don't do capital-A agile, but have evolved our own (agile-ish with
> a sprinling of Kanban) way of working that's served us well so far.
> We're looking for a developer rather than an ops person, but if you're
> interested in that side of things, our infrastructure's very
> interesting, and we have one of the best sysadmins I've ever worked
> with, so you'll learn loads here if you're that way inclined.
>
> Therefore, if you're a bright and passionate ruby or javascript
> developer (or both! - however one on its own would certainly be useful
> enough) who likes a challenge, with a love of music and a solid
> grounding in Computer Science and Software Engineering, you should
> definitely talk to us. If you've got any questions, or would like an
> informal chat to learn more about us, please get in touch with me,
> otherwise, if you'd like to go straight to applying, get in touch with
> my colleague Marc (marc at mediasp.com) with CV, github URL and/or
> anything else you feel would be appropriate.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
>
>
> REFERENCES
> -------------------
> [1] https://github.com/playlouder/doze
> [2] https://github.com/playlouder