Hi all, my employer is hiring. I like to think we're a pretty awesome place to work. Details are at http://blog.actbluetech.com/2011/07/come-work-with-us.html and are reproduced below. If you're interested or have questions, feel free to email me at either the address in the posting, or at [email protected].
Right now I'm looking to hear from individuals, not recruiters. seph Come Work With Us ActBlue is the leading source of online funds for the Democratic Party and an innovator in the field of grassroots politics. We build tools that are used by hundreds of thousands of people to change the country everyday. We're an established player (eight years strong!) gearing up to make a huge impact on the 2012 election season....and we need you for our team. Don't be misled by our "so-2006" look (goes along with being one of the oldest rails sites), we t mess around. We use best in class tools (rails, postgresql, resque/redis, memcached, jquery, chef) and methods (github, extensive automated testing, continuous integration, deployment, cloud hosting) to deliver the best technology in politics. We are collaborative. We are nimble. We are experts. You'll be an essential contributor to a small team of professionals in our Harvard Square office. You'll have significant responsibility right out of the gate and a voice in designing our architecture and the features we build. You'll have plenty of leeway to choose the best tools and technologies to implement those features. We offer autonomy, responsibility, an amazing workplace (full of people geeking out about politics and tech all day), competitive salary, and a benefits package that includes 401k, health, dental, vision, transportation subsidies, and the opportunity to have an outsized impact on politics. Join us. Please send a cover letter, resume, and a GitHub URL, code sample or portfolio to [email protected]. Wanna be a sysadmin? You should have a solid grasp of unix (or linux), web architecture, and at least a couple years as root. You should be familiar with configuration management systems, version control, security, automation, monitoring, performance -- all the usual stuff. Bonus points for experience with Ruby, Ubuntu, or PCI-DSS. Wanna be a front end developer? You should have a solid grasp on web application architecture, a commitment to code quality, and be know your way around jQuery, HTML5, and CSS. Bonus points for design experience and good writing skills. Wanna be a back end developer? You should have a solid grasp on web application architecture, a commitment to code quality, and be well-versed in Rails and PostgreSQL. Bonus points for design experience and good writing skills. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
