Sean BeckettSean Beckett
Cadreon Seeks Senior Rails Developer in San Francisco
edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Monday February 14, 2011 at 04:09PM

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.

Cadreon is looking for a senior Ruby on Rails developer to be part of a newly minted technology team in San Francisco. The candidate will be implementing cutting-edge advertising technologies used to service our Fortune 100 clients like Microsoft, Verizon, Chysler, and BMW. The candidate should enjoy working in a startup-like environment and be able to function well independently or in cross-functional teams.

The full job posting follows.

Responsibilities:

  • Technical architect and lead developer on implementing new advertising technologies.
  • Support and enhance existing internal systems.
  • Assist with technical integration of third party technology vendors.
  • Help evaluate Cadreon's technology partners.
  • Contribute to the company's overall technology strategy and vision.

Requirements and Qualifications:

  • Expert-level knowledge of Ruby (1.9) and Rails (3.0).
  • Solid experience using Javascript frameworks like Jquery.
  • Experienced in Agile development methodologies / TDD / Continuous Integration.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Understanding of online advertising landscape and technologies.
  • Thorough experience with the following tools and technologies:
  • HTML/CSS
  • AJAX
  • Rspec
  • Git
  • Capistrano
  • SQL
  • NIX environments

Helpful but not necessary:

  • Experience building ad serving technologies.
  • Knowledge of Amazon AWS EC2/S3/RDS.
  • Knowledge of Apache, J2EE, and experience building scalable solutions a plus.
  • Java/.NET/Perl development experience.
  • High-availability issues (deployment and monitoring)
  • MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, and other document style/non-traditional (noSQL) data stores
  • Webrat/Selenium/Jasmine/Cucumber
  • Data feed management and integration

Applicants should email a cover letter and resume to Rin.Chon@Cadreon.com