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At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide is bootstrapping startups, including helping them interview and hire. We have a current client looking for skilled engineers to build their development team. This is an excellent opportunity to learn Extreme Programming by working side-by-side with Pivotal's talented and experienced developers while at the same time getting in on the ground floor of a small and dynamic team.
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. General technical requirements include serious web development experience, and a significant subset of Ruby, Rails, CSS, JavaScript, or MySQL.
Here is a job posting from National Lab Day, a current Pivotal client looking for developers in New York.
National Lab Day
We are a non-profit platform funded by the Gates Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation connecting teachers, kids, scientists and techies to engage kids in hands-on learning for science, math, computers and engineering in schools across the country. Our site is at www.nationallabday.org
We are looking for Ruby on Rails programmers to join our team part- or full-time for the next three months as we prepare for a coordinated national event endorsed by President Barack Obama.
Job Description:
- Develop and maintain a Ruby on Rails app for a high-profile non-profit
- Work directly with management to improve the product and the message
- Test Driven Development
- Aggressive Refactoring
Additional Skills desired:
- Ability to communicate and coordinate with non-technical management
- JavaScript, including experience with Javascript testing frameworks
- SQL
Please email a brief description of your work experience to info@nationallabday.org, optionally including a resume and/or portfolio. Compensation will be commensurate with your experience.
Pivot David Stevenson introduces Remarkable and Contextually, testing tools that can be used on top of RSpec. Remarkable is tool that makes testing common ActiveRecord and ActionController functionality more declarative, making tests shorter and more legible. Remarkable is used heavily in Contextually, a role-based testing framework that simplifies testing the behavior of controllers against a variety of roles. David shares his experience and metrics from using these tools on a recent project.
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Isaac Hall of Recurly describes many of the hidden challenges in managing recurring billing online. He offers step-by-step tips, tricks, and firsthand experience on how to better architect and more easily deploy billing in your application.
Isaac put up a synopsis of the main ideas on the Recurly site.
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