NYC)

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.

Bedrocket Media Ventures is a disruptive media startup looking to change the way people discover and consume great entertainment in the cloud. Our platforms are not only revolutionizing the way entertainment is created and distributed, we’re also inventing new forms of interactive programming that will drive the future of video storytelling. We’re a fast-growing, venture-backed company that was founded by the co-founder of Huffington Post and the founder of multiple successful cable networks, and we’re building a radical team of creative thinkers and expert doers who are passionate about pioneering a truly new model for media.

You:

An experienced Ruby on Rails developer with strong back end capabilities who’s eager to join an innovative product team that emphasizes creative problem solving, fast iteration, and pushing the envelope with features. You’ll work closely with our small team of developers and UX team in an agile environment. As we grow our list of exciting new products, you’ll be encouraged to participate in product sessions and have a valuable role in this growing start-up organization.

Skills & requirements:

4+ years experience developing Ruby on Rails applications
Expertise with JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax and HTML/CSS, HAML and SASS a plus
Responsible for implementation, customization, and integration efforts, including APIs
Solid object-oriented design skills and knowledge of application architecture patterns
Work well in a modern agile software engineering environment (with source code control, dev/stage/prod release cycle, extensive testing, and continuous deployment)
Identify and define integration points with third-party solutions (analytics, libraries, etc.)
Clear, effective, and proactive communication skills

Come work with us!

Contract or Full-Time
Work remotely from the comfort of your home, with monthly travel to New York City.
Relocation assistance if you decide you love New York
Competitive pay, with health benefits (medical, dental, vision) and equity for fulltime employees
Best available hardware just for you
Laid-back environment: jeans, plaid, t-shirts, you get the gist
Flexible work hours, friendly co-workers to geek out with

Bedrocket Media Ventures is an equal opportunity employer. To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@bedrocket.com.

Social Chorus is looking for a Ruby on Rails Engineer

Ken Mayer

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Halogen Media Group merged with YouCast Corp. to collaborate in forming a powerhouse of technology, Social Chorus (http://socialchorus.com), that measures social reach through paid and earned media through influencer distribution.

Here’s the job posting:

Overview

Are you looking for a chance to do agile development? Do you want to immerse yourself in extreme programming using test driven development? Then Social Chorus is for you.

On to our development practices. We are on Rails 3.1.1 with deployment on Heroku and test driving EVERYTHING with Rspec, Jasmine, and Selenium. We are running Jenkins on our Amazon EC2 cloud for our continuous integration tests and firing it off on every push to Github. Every Monday we have an internal planning meeting that includes the dev team along with our project manager to go over upcoming features, stories that need discussion, and story estimation. Why stories? To manage the project and all the components that drive its development we use Pivotal Tracker, the collaborative, lightweight agile project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development. Mornings start with stand-ups to go over the previous day’s work, work for the current day, or any blockers anybody might have. Pair programming and green tests make the day fly by with the gratification of clean code without broken windows. Our analytics module runs in the cloud, hitting nginx, aggregating all data into our sharded MongoDB database. Like to map/reduce over extremely large data sets? Sweet.

Perks. Our development is fueled by a fully stocked kitchen and beer bashes at least once a month. Team dinners, ski/snowboard trips, lunchtime crosswords, Giants games, are some of the enjoyable company sponsored events. Halloween and Christmas parties also keep us busy as the holidays get closer. On top of that, we have competitive salaries and a semi-annual bonus plan.

Currently we are boot-strapping with Pivotal Labs at their office at 875 Howard St. Upon the end of our engagement with them, which tentatively concludes at the end February, we are moving back to our home base located in SOMA, China Basin, right next to AT&T Park to join the rest of the team. Come join our team and show off your Ruby on Rails chops!

Responsibilities

Test Drive everything
Push out awesome code
Pair well with each other
Constantly stay up to date with technology

Experience

Ruby on Rails
RSpec
CSS
JavaScript
Database Architecture
Heroku is a plus

Skills

Ruby on Rails
RSpec
CSS
JavaScript
Database Architecture
MongoDB is a plus
NGINX is a plus
Amazon EC2 is a plus

Education

BS Computer Science or equivalent

Compensation

Depends on experience

Fall College Career Fairs

Ash Hogan

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Pivotal is committed to developing careers with those who are still studying or have recently graduated from college. We offer paid intern and full time positions with consideration to your study program and relevant intern or coop experience.

In the Fall of 2011, Pivotal Labs will be attending 23 college job fairs in 49 days – an average of one careers fair every 2.13 days! 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. We encourage you to come along and visit us at the following locations:

University Illinois College Engineering; Colorado School of Mines; Cornell; Stanford; University Pennsylvania; Brown; MIT; UC Berkeley; Rutgers; University Michigan College Engineering; University Maryland; Waterloo; Olin; University of Colorado; Cooper; Princeton; Harvard; Caltech; Columbia; Pace.

And if you can’t meet us in person, remember to always check us out online: http://www.pivotallabs.com/jobs/welcome.