[LRUG] [JOB] Mid or Snr Ruby dev at Nature Publishing Group

[Thayer Prime]

Hello LRUGgers,

I've been briefed by Nature to help them find a Ruby on Rails
developer - upper mid weight to senior, and paying between £45,000 to
£60,000. They largely work on Ruby web applications for nature.com and
currently have nine Ruby developers and one PHP developer who works on
their microsites and blogs.

They're structured into cross-functional project teams usually
consisting of three Rails developers, a dedicated front-end
specialist, a QA specialist,
Scrum master and product owner and typically use a Scrum development
process (viz. daily stand-ups, two-week sprints, backlog grooming,
sprint
planning, sprint demos and retrospectives). At the moment, their
largest project is Nature's new open-access publishing platform and
other projects
largely relate to that in some way (be it new journals or
functionality related to recommendations, linked data, etc.).

Job advert in full below my sig and you can find their Coderwall
profile at https://coderwall.com/team/nature-publishing-group

Email me with your CV, repo links, desired salary and potential start
date if you'd like to be considered, and I can brief you fully and let
you know next steps.

Cheers
Thayer
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Thayer Prime
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CEO & Founder
Team Prime Ltd
http://www.team-prime.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/thayerprime
http://www.thayerprime.com
@Thayer


Responsibilities:
•	Be part of a cross-functional, agile team, working closely with
other team members and the product owner to successfully deliver
working software.
•	Provide technical assistance and guidance to other team members
throughout development and during code review.
•	Be a champion of good software development practices such as TDD and
the SOLID design principles.
•	Collaborate and foster working relationships with other development
teams and people within the business.

Essential Technical Skills:
•	Experience delivering web applications using Ruby web application
frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Sinatra.
•	An understanding of test driving development and its role in the
design of software.
•	Thorough knowledge of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
•	Experience with version control, particularly Git or any other
distributed version control system and using feature branches for
development.
•	Experience maintaining old application code and successfully
refactoring where necessary.
•	Experience working with databases and key-value stores such as
MySQL, Memcached and Redis.

Essential Personal Attributes:
•	Self-disciplined and motivated to deliver well-crafted software.
•	Solid analytical and problem solving skills.
•	Good communications skills, both written and verbal.
•	Able to develop your own ideas on improving tools, processes.
•	The ability and desire to learn new technologies quickly.

Desirable Skills/Abilities:
•	Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Chef.
•	Experience with developing increasingly client-side heavy
applications in JavaScript.
•	Experience with an agile software development methodology such as
Scrum or Kanban.