Ruby on Rails Lead Developer, UserVoice.com, San Francisco, CA

With over 32,000 customers UserVoice is the market leader in online collection and organization of user feedback for innovation. From SaaS services to eCommerce to Gov 2.0 projects UserVoice forums provide a structured and intelligent way to engage with and manage the voice of your community. VC backed and with an experienced founding team, UserVoice is set to become the underlying technology for collection, organization and analysis of consumer opinion on the web.

We are seeking a motivated and engaged Rails developer to join a small team in an exciting high growth startup. You will be responsible for all parts of the application except for the UI - where just the ability to communicate and integrate with the front end devs is required. This is a key role which has the possibility for tremendous growth and experience.

The ideal skill set should comprise experience of:

• The whole Rails (> 2.3) stack
• Ruby (should go without saying really...)
• MySQL (writing queries and using indexes)
• Git and GitHub (basic usage)
• AJAX (writing end points for jQuery and Prototype)
• Capistrano (basic deployment)
• Async job queues (DelayedJob, Resque would be nice...)
• Communicating (IRL!)
• Shipping code.....

Bonus points for:

• Platform experience: Facebook, Google, Ning, etc
• Non-relational databases, preferably Redis
• Profiling (httperf, kcachegrind, etc)
• Mobile experience: iPhone, J2ME, Windows Mobile
• Obsessive compulsive tendencies to details.
• Other languages: Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Smalltalk etc
• SaaS experience (subscriptions, white labelling, etc).
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Maintaining a blog.

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