[LRUG] [JOB] Experiened Ruby Developer at theconversation.com

[James Healy]

theconversation.com is an independent, non-profit source of
research-based news and analysis. Our articles are written by
academics in collaboration with our editorial teams using the TC
platform - a custom rails 4 CMS backed by postgres.

We started in Australia, but we've since opened editorial offices in
London, Boston, Paris and Johannesburg.

There's 5 of us on the dev team, working with about 70 editors and
thousands of academics. All the developers are currently working in
Australia (UTC+10), which is great for productivity, but not so great
for supporting staff in other timezones.

We're interested in working with a freelance ruby developer located in
(or near) UTC+1, for 3+ days/week. They would participate in the daily
work of the development team via trello, github and slack, plus deal
with any urgent staff support issues while Australia sleeps.

Our London office is located at City University, but there'd be no
need to work from there. Occasional visits to build relationships with
editorial colleagues would be great.

We'd like to work with someone who is confident with, and has opinions on:

- Ruby and Rails
- HTML, JavaScript/CoffeeScript and CSS
- Keeping large rails apps maintainable
- Maintaining core systems while developing and incorporating new features

Bonus points if you also have opinions on:

- Digital media or fact-based journalism
- Testing with rspec and capybara
- Internationalisation and Ruby / Rails i18n
- Postgresql
- Data warehousing with star schemas
- Event sourcing

We offer:

- A consultative, lean development process
- Multiple deploys per day
- A github pull-request workflow with code review, discussion and
buildkite.com keeping us honest
- A stable, growing business
- Possibility of ongoing work

Rates are negotiable, depending on experience.

If you are interested or have any questions please email me a bit
about yourself. If you would like to share any further details such as
your CV, public github account or standard rates, please feel free to
include them as well.

There's a dated, but still relevant tour of our content management
system and user visible metrics on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si0Z5j8MOXY

James Healy
Technical Director