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The Ultimate Agile Job

Senior Ruby on Rails Developers

New York City and San Francisco

If you're looking for a place to do serious agile development, and serious Rails development, this is the place. We're looking for brilliant Rails developers to join our star team, in both New York and San Francisco. If you want to share your knowledge while learning from others, work sustainably, and work on some serious projects, we think you'll have a blast working with us.

The Job:

• Developing Ruby on Rails applications for a variety of leading clients
• Test Driven Development
• Pair Programming
• Aggressive Refactoring
• Working directly with clients to manage requirements

Additional Skills desired:

• Experience with testing frameworks from rspec and Test::Unit to Selenium and JsUnit
• SQL
• JavaScript, Flash
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical clients

OS X Desktop Support

San Francisco

You'll be supporting about 40 developers on site in our San Francisco office, a few additional folks in remote offices, and developers working on site with clients. Most of our workstations run OS X, and there are a couple of Windows and Linux boxes around too.

Responsibilities:

Install, configure, and support:

• Developer workstations (Macintosh, Windows, and Linux)
• Local area network (LAN) and Internet connectivity to our office
• Remote-hosted developer productivity applications
  (subversion, wiki, cruise control, nagios)
• Remote-hosted web application servers
  (Linux, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, SOLR, others)
• Office workstations (Windows and Macintosh) and applications
  (Quickbooks, Microsoft Office)

Additional Skills desired:

• OS X Server administration
• Linux administration
• VPN experience (OpenVPN)
• Scripting languages (Shell, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc.)
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical clients

Why join us?

1. We're agile. That means test-driven development with tools like RSpec, Test::Unit, JUnit, JsUnit and Selenium. It means pair-programming, refactoring, and state-of-the-art continuous integration, build, and deployment infrastructure.
2. We're fun. Besides daily catered breakfasts and beer nights, what does that mean? It means we've got a real culture. We share it by rotating developers between projects. With us, you may work on five, six, or even more projects in a single year.
3. We're good, and always improving. We have daily stand-up meetings and regular retrospectives. We figure out what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we're doing right, so we can make it even better. Working here means you get better at what you already do well, every day.

We've got multiple teams of Rails and Java developers working on a variety of products at our labs in downtown San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Denver, and at some well known companies around the Bay Area and beyond. If you're a talented developer who's enthusiastic about agile and interested in a unique and challenging environment, get in touch with us.

Interested? Email jobs@pivotallabs.com. Principals only, please!