Ruby on Rails Developer

Posted 3 months ago at 24 January 2012

Company name: Hetzner (Pty) Ltd
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Email: Phone:
URL: www.hetzner.co.za

Description:

Agile software development team seeks experienced, forward thinking object oriented software developer.

This self-organizing team has management support from the top down, for trying new techniques for increasing predictability, quality and delivery. The team is responsible for choosing how best to implement new features and address issues, and works on only one thing at a time, in short iterations reviewed by enthusiastic stakeholders.

The team is employed by a mature, stable company that has remained as passionate about its customers and staff as a startup.

The team faces the challenge of migrating a web hosting provider’s control panel from a monolithic legacy LAMP application to a modern, rich web client leveraging a set of RESTful APIs, implemented in Ruby on Rails or similar agile language-plus-framework and boasting full coverage by automated tests.

Interview process will including a practical coding test and demand that candidates convincingly sell the value of agile software development, object orientation, domain driven design, business driven development and test driven development.

Required skills:

BSc Comp Sci or equivalent work experience
Minimum 5 years object oriented software development experience
Must be a passionate teacher and learner

Desired skills:


Employment Terms: -
Hours: -
Onsite: Yes

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