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<font>Hi everyone, </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">
<font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">I don't post here very often but have been a long time lurker and used to attend the very early LRUG meetings back in early 2006 when about 10 people used to turn up :) </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Sorry for yet another 'desperately seeking' post, but my team at AOL advertising needs a good experienced contractor for at least 3 months and probably longer.</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">The sort of guy (or girl) we need will be more of back-end developer rather than front-end and will need to be comfortable with heavy data modelling and SQL as well as Rails development.</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">We need you to work on enhancements and maintenance to a large Rails 2.3 app with (luckily) close to 100% test coverage and some reasonable standards (DRY, Bundler, Webistrano deployment etc).</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">We are also doing a lot of work with Node.JS, coffeescript, MongoDB and the socketstream project is being actively developed in our team:</font></font></p>
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</font></font></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <a href="https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream">https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream</a></span><font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">
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So exposure to any of the above is useful.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">
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At the end of the day we are looking for someone who is bright, a quick learner and knows how to deliver and we will pay a competitive daily rate.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">The corporate sanitised job spec is below and if you think it fits then send an email with your cv and a brief cover letter to <a href="mailto:stephen.strudwick@teamaol.com">stephen.strudwick@teamaol.com</a></font></p>
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</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">thanks for listening!</font></p>
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<b><span style="color: rgb(227, 108, 10); ">Stephen Strudwick<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">
<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Principal Software Engineer, Software Engineering | AOL Europe<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1f497d" face="'Courier New'"><a href="mailto:stephen.strudwick@teamaol.com">stephen.strudwick@teamaol.com</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><img width="96" height="59" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CC9269.8ACD3F30" alt="AOL_Brush_Orange"></span></p></span></font><p></p><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#808080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><img src="cid:ii_13336925e2d87f06" alt="aol_small.png" title="aol_small.png"><br></b></span></font></p><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
<font color="#808080"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Job
Title: </b></font></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b> Ruby
on Rails Software Engineer</b></font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#808080"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Reporting
into:</b></font></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"> Principal
Software Engineer, Software Engineering</font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#808080"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Contract
Type:</b></font></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>
</b></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Contract (3-6 Months)</font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#808080"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Location:</b></font></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>
</b></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">WC1E 6JA – Capper
Street, London</font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#808080"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Salary:
</b></font></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b> </b></font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Competitive
(Day rate)</font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Company
Description</b></font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">AOL
(UK) Limited is a subsidiary of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL), a premier
global media company with a suite of brands and products serving
consumers, advertisers and publishers worldwide. AOL Media is a
leading source of news, opinion, entertainment, community and digital
information comprising a wide range of websites, including <a href="http://AOL.co.uk">AOL.co.uk</a>,
MyDaily, The Huffington Post UK, Parentdish, Eleven, TechCrunch and
Engadget. </font>
</p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The
AOL Advertising.com Group includes Advertising.com, ADTECH, Pictela,
AOL Video (inclusive of goviral and 5min Media), Content Solutions
and Sponsored Listings and serves a combined content and advertising
market at scale through video, brand advertising, content and ad
serving.</span></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">AOL
is focused on engaging consumers and providing online advertising
services and solutions on both AOL Media destination websites and
third party websites, in addition to serving consumer platforms
including AOL Mail, AIM, and <a href="http://about.me">about.me</a>.</font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Overview</b></font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Working
as part of a small agile team, an experienced software engineer is
required to help continue development on existing Ruby on Rails
applications and support the EU Advertising Business.</font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">The
candidate will be well versed in objected oriented design (OOD/OOP)
and the software design lifecycle. Additionally, the individual
should not be averse to wearing several hats (QA engineer,
operator/administrator, system analyst/engineer) so as to deliver
quality, dependable & maintainable solutions in an agile team
environment.</font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">The
position is more suited to a candidate with strong back-end
development skills, including data management, problem solving and
business logic.</font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Key
Responsibilities</b></font></p>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">The
successful candidate will:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Work
closely with internal stakeholders to understand business
requirements and deliver high quality, high availability web
products & tools </font>
</p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Troubleshoot
and resolve issues with current products & tools in a timely
fashion</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Effectively
decompose feature implementation into associated tasks for planning
& tracking purposes as part of a delivery team</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Communicate
effectively in both verbal (day-to-day discussions, team meetings)
and written forms (requirements and design specifications) with
local and remote team members</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Actively
manage and own feature development beyond design &
implementation by providing sound consultation and feedback to
Product Stakeholders, QA and operations.</font></p></li></ul>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Skills
Required</b></font></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Excellent
Ruby on Rails skills with good knowledge of the underlying framework</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">A
passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly
re-factor and improve</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Strong
SQL experience</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Strong
written and verbal communication</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Demonstrable
experience of delivering products/tools from concept through
deployment and ongoing user support.</font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">
</font>
</p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Ability
to manage multiple priorities, follow sprint/project plans and meet
commitments</font><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"> </font>
</p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Display
a history of creativity, innovative thought, awareness of current
technical trends and high levels of motivation</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Excellent
ability to understand and express complex technical topics</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Hands
on experience with GIT</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Strong
Linux knowledge</font></p></li></ul>
<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt"><b>Desirable
skills</b></font></p>
<ul>
<li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Some
demonstrable experience with Node.js, ideally with code on GitHub</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Experience
with CoffeeScript, Redis and MongoDB a significant advantage</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Experience
working in an agile environment, knowledge of scrum</font></p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Experience
developing systems for advertising companies </font>
</p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Experience
working with geographically dispersed teams </font>
</p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">System
administration experience </font>
</p>
</li><li><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Demonstrable
interest in new technologies and technological trends</font></p>
</li></ul>
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