Hi guys, The DevPubs team at Apple is looking for a Ruby contractor with potential MacRuby knowledge, so I'm forwarding the notice to the list.
If you're interested or have a recommentation, please contact Matisse Enzer <men...@apple.com> . Laurent Begin forwarded message: > Hi folks, my group is looking for an expert Ruby engineer for a contract > position > starting ASAP in 2011. > > If you have a recommendation to make please let me know. Please do not > re-post this notice without checking with me first to see if it is still > current and accurate. > > The project requires extensive (but not 100%) on-site work in > Cupertino, California. If an individual is not able to get qualified > as a vendor or work through an existing vendor then they can be brought > on as an employee of the staffing company we use (PrO.) > > Length of engagements will start at 6-9 months, with the possibility > of being extended to a total of 12 months. > > The work is to assist in the creation of a new Content Management > and Publishing system which must take over from a legacy system > with no interuption in service. > > The contract engineer will act as a consultant on Ruby Best Practices > and system design and assist in the modification of legacy systems > so they may be replaced or encapsulated by new systems. > > The new system being written in Ruby (for the server-side) and uses web > apps for the client-side. The legacy systems being replaced or > encapsulated are written primarily in Perl, with some Objective-C, and > some Ruby. > > Must-Have qualities: > > * Proven ability to consult on and teach Best Practices to other engineers. > This requires excellent social skills. > * Excellent plays-well-with-others skills. No lone-wolf coders. > * Expert in Ruby > * Thoroughly familiar with Ruby technologies such as Rails, gems, > bundler, and similar technologies. > * Experience with and enthusiasm for agile development. > * Advanced skills in automated testing. > * Enthusiastic about Separation of Concerns as an architectural principle. > * Experience building web services. > * Be highly organized, able to analyze competing priorities, and > help stakeholders make good decisions to resolve priority conflicts. > * Extensive experience on two or more *nix systems (Mac OS X, Linux, > Solaris, etc.) > * References > > Nice-to-Have skills and experience: > * Active participation in one or more Open Source projects with multiple > developers. > * Experience with MacRuby > * Experience with Aspect Oriented Programming > * Mac OS X > * git > * SVN > * Object Oriented Perl > * Real-world experience making changes to legacy code. > * buildbot > * Cocoa/Objective-C > * JavaScript skills, especially Sproutcore > > If you have a recommendation to make please let me know. Please do not > re-post this notice without checking with me first to see if it is still > current and accurate.
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