Rails Developer for Democracy Now
Posted 28 days ago at 25 January 2012
| Company name: | Democracy Now! Productions |
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| Location: | New York, NY, USA |
| Email: | Phone: |
| URL: | http://democracynow.org |
Description:
Democracy Now! is a non-profit, independent daily news hour broadcast on over 1,000 stations and available online at democracynow.org. Democracy Now! is hiring a dynamic Ruby on Rails Developer to provide production support and work as part of a distributed team to improve upon existing web and mobile applications.
Required skills:
- Developed a number of RoR web applications, including at least one high traffic site
- Rails 2.x and 3.x best practices
- MySQL 5.x
- Sphinx search server
- Video encoding, streaming and embedding technologies
- Online payment processing APIs including ActiveMerchant
- Internationalization
- An appreciation of SEO techniques
- Experience of mobile application and/or web development
- Skilled in performance analysis, troubleshooting and optimization
- Managing and evolving application architecture
- Agile software development practices
- Debian linux
- Git
- Public/private key encryption
- Experience with Rails testing frameworks
Desired skills:
Familiarity with Democracy Now!, a commitment to open source software development, and the ability to work onsite at Democracy Now!’s NYC facility are highly preferred. Position begins immediately. To apply, please submit a resume, cover letter and client/project list to job (at) democracynow (dot) org with “Rails Developer” as the subject. No phone calls.
| Employment Terms: | - |
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| Hours: | - |
| Onsite: | Yes |
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