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<span><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi
LRUGers,<br>
<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Here at</span> <span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The App Business</span> <span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);">we are looking for some more talented Ruby developers to
join our
growing team, two contractors and two permanent. You would be working on
some very interesting projects, scaling Rails and sinatra-based web
services and
APIs that power some of the complex custom features and dynamic data
within our mobile apps. The technology stack of the particular projects
we are hiring for includes AWS EC2, Elasticache/Memcached, Varnish,
Akamai, Cucumber, RSpec, Delayed Job, MySQL. In a permanent
role, there will be opportunity to use many other frameworks and
platforms as other projects require, and help shape apps built for all
kinds of devices (tablets, phones, wearables).</span><br style="color:
rgb(0, 0,
0);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are a company of just over 60
people, roughly half of those developers who work across various
languages
including iOS, Android, JavaScript, C# and Ruby.</span><br style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We work in an Agile environment,
with the teams encouraged to self-organise and supported in delivering
working software early and often. We use tools such as jenkins, Anthill
PRO, and testflight to support this, and we're a big fan of git flow. We
also have a strong commitment to quality; our development approach is
heavily influenced by Software Craftsmanship and BDD. I've included the
full job spec at the end of the email, for anyone interested in the
finer details, it's also available on our website
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theappbusiness.com/ruby-developer/">http://www.theappbusiness.com/ruby-developer/</a>). </span><br
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<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Any further technical questions
about the projects or the company, feel free to get in touch and I can
provide them - I am a Ruby developer myself. For those or to apply,
please email<span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font
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href="mailto:opportunities@theappbusiness.com"><span
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<br>
A learning from my last post: STRICTLY NO RECRUITERS. We will politely
ignore any emails coming from recruiters we don't already work with.<br
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><span></span><span><br>
</span></span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks,</span><br>
</span></span></span><span><span><span><b>Will Thomas</b><br>Full-stack
Web Engineer</span></span> </span><span><span><span><br>
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<span></span><font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 16px; color:
rgb(255, 68, 1); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68,
68); font-size: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica Neue">The
App Business is looking for passionate Ruby developers with a strong
commitment to quality, to help us tackle complex architectural and
design challenges across the back-end services and APIs we build.</font></span></p><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">We
work in a fast-paced, Agile environment, delivering sophisticated
software that is critical to the operations of many of our clients. This
role requires a developer with a mature attitude to risk, who believes
testing and code quality are a collective responsibility, fundamental to
delivery. </font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size:
13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font
face="Helvetica Neue">You
should be constantly learning, and striving to improve your craft, and
happy working as part of a cross-functional team - keen to learn from
others and pass on your own knowledge to improve those around you. </font></span></p><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">We
believe nothing should be an impediment for you to do your best work
and we have structured the company around this principle, in order to
give people the autonomy to make decisions, encourage experimentation
and think big!</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;
font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="letter-spacing:
0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">If
you have passion, skill, and want to join a us in building great
software, and continuing to break boundaries with new ideas and
concepts, then apply now and tell us how you will help shape and make a
difference here at The App Business.</font></span></p><p style="margin:
0px 0px 12px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(255, 68, 1); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font face="Helvetica Neue">YOU WILL BE</font></b></span></p>
<ul><li style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68,
68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><b>A
technical expert </b>in designing and developing high-quality and
scalable APIs and back-end services.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><b>A polyglot
developer</b> who loves to embrace other frameworks, languages and
platforms, as and when business problems require.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><b>Working
closely</b> with clients and key stakeholders, to ensure requirements
are met.</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-size:
13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font
face="Helvetica Neue"><b>Solving complex programming problems </b>in a
clean and testable way.</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px
13px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><b>Keen to
express and share </b>ideas to help improve the development process.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><b>Learning
and collaborating </b>in cross-functional teams with iOS and Android
developers, QA, product owners and scrum masters.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><b>Happy to
work across the technical stack</b>, contributing to infrastructure,
application and database development.</font></span></li></ul><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(255, 68, 1); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font face="Helvetica Neue">YOU MUST
HAVE</font></b></span></p>
<ul><li style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68,
68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">3+
years commercial development experience.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">A keen
interest in mobile development and technology trends.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Excellent
knowledge of Ruby development with and without Rails, including design
patterns that keep code reusable and maintainable in larger apps.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Demonstrable
habitual use of TDD and BDD techniques.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">A passion for
software development, perhaps demonstrated through personal projects or
participation in tech. communities.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Some
experience of infrastructure development, such as configuration of
servers, caches and queues.</font></span><span style="vertical-align:
-1px; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;
font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68,
68, 68);"><span style="vertical-align: -1.0px; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font
face="Helvetica Neue">Good understanding of continuous deployment, and
tools for version<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>
control, CI, and scripted deployments.</font></span><font
face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="vertical-align: -1px; letter-spacing:
0px;"></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size:
13px; color: rgb(68,
68, 68);"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="vertical-align:
-1.0px; letter-spacing: 0.0px">Working </span><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">knowledge of database and query
optimisation for performance.</span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span
style="vertical-align: -1.0px; letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><span
style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px
0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68,
68, 68); "><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="letter-spacing:
0.0px">Experience working in an Agile team, and a good level of
understanding of the Agile values and principles. </span></font></li></ul><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><font
face="Helvetica Neue"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></p><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(255, 68, 1); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font face="Helvetica Neue">IT’S NICE
IF YOU HAVE</font></b></span></p>
<ul><li style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68,
68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span
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or
above in a Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical
degree.</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size:
13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font
face="Helvetica Neue">Additional experience using any of C#, Java, or
Objective-C.</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;
font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="letter-spacing:
0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Experience developing solutions
optimised for mobile-based usage and consumption.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Experience
working in effective, large-scale Agile development projects.</font></span></li><li
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Good
understanding of requirements analysis, using techniques like
Specification By Example.</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px
12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Contributions
to open source projects.</font></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px
12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Web front-end
development experience with JavaScript.</font></span></li></ul><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(255, 68, 1); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font face="Helvetica Neue">INTERVIEWS</font></b></span></p><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica Neue">Our
interview process consists of two to three rounds, starting with an
initial telephone interview. If successful, we will invite you to meet
with us face to face, where you will demonstrate your thinking ability
as well as your skills and experiences. So if The App Business sounds
like the sort of unique challenge that matches your ambitions, please
get in touch at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:opportunities@theappbusiness.com"><span
style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); "></span></a><a
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href="mailto:opportunities@theappbusiness.com">opportunities@theappbusiness.com</a></font></span></p></span>
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<div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(255, 68, 0); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 16px;"><b><font face="Helvetica
Neue">OUR STORY</font></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;
text-align: justify; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Helvetica
Neue">The
App Business (TAB) is an award-winning, full service, specialist mobile
software company that grew out of three inspirational years working
with Steve Jobs. Helping to launch the iPhone, App Store and hundreds
of apps convinced us that software is eating the world and that people
are now turning to ‘apps’ to navigate their daily lives. With this in
mind, we built The App Business from the ground up to help businesses
meet the challenges and opportunities in our emerging ‘programmable
world.’</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align:
justify; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;
font-size: 13px;"><font face="Helvetica Neue">We
work with brands to help them create business-transforming software
experiences, across smartphones, tablets, desktop, social media, even
TVs - wherever the audience is. Our approach is ‘audience-led,
technology-informed’, meaning we blend in-house app strategists and
interaction designers with specialist software engineers to craft ideas
and technology that actually works.</font></span></p><p style="margin:
0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 68, 0); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 16px;"><b><font face="Helvetica
Neue">OUR CULTURE</font></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;
text-align: justify; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span
style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Helvetica
Neue">We’re
a unique company that is changing the way brands develop ideas and
engage audiences. Working with us, you’ll be exposed to a highly
successful and entrepreneurial digital technology business.</font></span></p><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(68, 68,
68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><font
face="Helvetica Neue">We
want people to develop at The App Business more fully than at any other
point in their career. We take on big, testing challenges, provide all
the support that people need to conquer them and give everybody an
opportunity to shape the future of our ambitious company.</font></span></p><p
style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(68, 68,
68); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><font
face="Helvetica Neue">Our
working culture is modelled on our experience with Apple. Ultimately
open, friendly and relaxed, we’re committed to ensuring it’s easy for
everybody to communicate, to share ideas and find solutions. This
positive culture is created by our shared ambitions, passion and
commitment to hard work.</font></span></p></div></span></span></span><span> </span>
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