Our client, a hip, cool and rapidly growing ESP provider, is seeking a Lamp/Ruby on Rails Developer to join their dynamic team. If you enjoy a fast pace, hard work and a play harder type of environment, this is the job you've been waiting for!

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Work with product management and other engineers in an agile environment to create consistent and compelling user interfaces
• Create interfaces to the VR RESTful and SOAP APIs
• Maintain and update the VR UI style guide
• Conduct usability testing with employees and customers
• Use subversion source control software
• Create and maintain RPM spec files in addition to building and deployment of RPMs
• Deploy software releases to QA, Staging and Production environments
• Work with the QA engineers to develop test cases and ensure that UI designs support test automation
• Share information with other employees via the company Wiki and present to the engineering team and others

Qualifications:

• Must have a minimum of 2 years of web UI development
• Proficient in Ruby on Rails framework
• Working knowledge of Prototype.js a must
• Proficient in implementing RPC-based and/or RESTful Web Services
• Ability to produce standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code
• Proficient in designing and implementing AJAX technologies
• Extensive background in Web Interface Design and evaluating User Experience
• Designing interface elements in Adobe Photoshop
• Familiar with a Linux development environment
• Must be an energetic "self-starter" with the ability to work independently and within a team with strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Must pay attention to detail and history of meeting deadlines
• Has hard-earned (and correct) ideas about how to develop web applications the right way
• Wants to learn, obsess, and teach others about cool technical stuff
• Portfolio of previous work strongly encouraged
• Sense of humor is essential
• May be expected to write or work with code related to questionable content

Additional Qualifications that are huge pluses!

• Working under constraints of legacy systems, refactoring and/or rewriting old code in an incremental fashion
• RPM management
• Previous experience working in an agile development environment
• Maintaining or following a style guide

Compensation: $98K, plus bonus plan