[LRUG] [JOBS] Web developer using Ruby on Rails, location: Dundee, Scotland (remote not available)

[Mugurel Chirica]

If anyone is interested or know anyone interested, get in touch (
chirica.mugurel at gmail.com), I'm one of the web developers and I'll be happy
to provide more information.





Job Title: Web Developer

Contract/Permanent: Permanent only

Location of Role: Dundee (Remove not available)

YoYo Games, part of the Playtech family is the home of GameMaker: Studio™,
the fastest and friendliest cross-platform game development technology out
there. GameMaker Studio has been downloaded over 7 million times. We’re on
a mission to ensure game development is available to all.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Web Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining
YoYo Games' websites and online services, both internal and public-facing.
You will lead projects from a technical side and mentor more junior
developers assisting on projects.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for web development. Shall be
experienced working with JavaScript (NodeJS), Ruby on Rails, C# (MVC), No
Relational / No SQL databases and have the ability to work with multiple
open source Ecommerce/CMS solution depending on the project. Along with
solid technical experience it is essential you have excellent communication
and written skills to be able to document work, communicate with other
departments and lead / mentor others.


THE MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS ROLE WILL INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT
LIMITED TO:

Design, develop and maintain all the YoYo Games websites and web APIs.
Backend product logic, server architecture and communication design.
Collaboration with business, technical and management teams on design and
development.
Creation and maintenance of admin and moderation tools for updating
content, product information and user accounts.
Server setup and maintenance across dedicated remote servers (RapidSwitch),
virtual cloud servers (Amazon EC2), databases (MySQL on RapidSwitch and
Amazon RDB) and cloud hosting (Amazon S3, MaxCDN).
SSL certificate management on multiple machines across all of the above
services.
Help mentor and grow the Web team.


EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL

Excellent and current knowledge of web development techniques, languages
and frameworks
2-3 or more years' web development experience in Ruby on Rails, PHP or
another server-side language
JavaScript (NodeJS), CSS3, HTML5
Linux command line (Ubuntu)
NoSQL, design and optimisation (Amazon DynamoDB experience a bonus)
Web server configuration (nginx, Apache)
Amazon AWS expertise
Back-end web development experience
Relevant work experience in online commerce environments, distributed
systems and/or developing large scale web applications
Payment process integration (PayPal, Ogone, etc)
Search engine setup (ElasticSearch)
Strong analytical, problem solving, and project management skills
Experience with automated deployment (Capistrano)
Experience working on the *nix command-line, both locally and on remote
servers
Knowledge of, or experience with, cloud-based services (Amazon EC2 and
S3/CloudFront, MaxCDN, etc.)
Source control (Git, Mercurial) and remote repositories (Github, Bitbucket,
etc.)
Dynamic stylesheet languages (SASS or Less)
Passionate about web development
Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
Highly organised with the ability to manage several projects at the same
time


DESIRABLE:

Computer Science/Web Computing/ equivalent degree
Thorough understanding of Ruby on Rails, or another MVC framework
One or more years’ experience with Ruby on Rails
Experience with eCommerce development
Experience with GameMaker: Studio™
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