Rails Job

Rails Web Developer

Posted 3 months ago at 04 February 2012

Description:

We’re on a mission

At KPCC, we are on a mission to redefine how public service journalism can serve a diverse metropolis. KPCC is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media organization that operates several radio stations in and around Los Angeles, and is rapidly growing its digital news platforms. We reach more than 600,000 listeners every week— more than any public radio service of any kind in Southern California— and our audience is growing. We broadcast lots of award-winning local coverage and programs, as well as the best NPR content.

Do work that matters

As part of a small team of developers and designers, your work will have a positive impact on hundreds of thousands of California residents who rely on KPCC for their news and information, and will make a mark on the landscape of local news and public media. You’ll get to partner with the newsroom and to help visualize stories and data in ways that bring clarity and insight to the issues that affect Los Angeles and its diverse communities.

Why you’ll love it here

You’ll come in every day and work on meaningful challenges and interesting apps with a crew of smart, friendly, creative people. You’ll get to work in a small, fast-moving team that is focused on making a small number of products the absolute best they can be. You’ll get to work from the Mohn Broadcast Center, our beautiful office in the heart of sunny Pasadena, CA. We offer competitive benefits and salary, and support a diverse and inclusive work environment.

How to Apply:

To apply, email a cover letter, resume and link to online portfolio to careers@americanpublicmedia.org, please reference “job #223-11, Rails Web Developer” in the subject.

Required skills:

You are:

• Comfortable at any layer of the web application stack
• Someone who cares about web standards
• Proficient in CSS, SASS, Javascript and jQuery
• Excited about learning new things, and always up for a challenge
• Highly fluent on the command line
• A clear thinker and communicator who loves tackling tough problems and coming up with clean yet practical solutions

You have:

• 2+ years experience with Rails, or a comparable MVC framework
• A practical, working knowledge of object-oriented programming
• Experience building or customizing content management systems, and strong opinions about how a CMS should work
• Experience publishing or consuming APIs using REST, JSON and XML
• Good ideas, strong opinions, a collaborative attitude and strong work ethic.

Desired skills:

You’re extra awesome if you:

• Have experience developing custom media players, and working with various media formats (streaming and on demand) and systems
• Know how to tune SQL queries for performance
• Have experience developing apps or websites for mobile devices
• Have worked on a high-traffic consumer-facing website or app
• Have experience with some of the tools and technologies we love: Redis, Git, Coffeescript, and Backbone

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