Hi all, We're Impact Data - a youngish (~10 years) and smallish (~30 people) company specialising in software for helping small to medium businesses communicate with their customers. We're basically a startup that's thriving (BRW recently listed us in its "Top 100 Upstarts" feature), with a large client base and ambitions to reach a lot more. To that end, we've developed a Rails app in the same space as our existing apps, pitched a little differently and using all the cool stuff that working in Rails gives you access to. The app is pretty mature, and we're about to release it some of our existing customers, with a view to a public launch within a month or two. We're hoping for huge growth with the app, and in the meantime we've got keen sales staff, and keen customers who want to use it.
We're looking for someone who can come in and understand a mature but not too hairy Rails (Postgres/Mongo, jQuery/YUI) app quickly enough to start helping keep our customers happy right away, but also to help us work through some interesting new bits of functionality in the pipeline that we'll need to bring on more customers. It would be good if you had some experience with an an app that sends emails, SMSes, etc. We deploy on Heroku to minimise admin/deployment overhead and friction and hence we use Git. We have integrations on the go with Facebook and Twitter, so you'll get points for being someone who can quickly understand and work with an external API, or even for being a "social media specialist". We partly use Mongo on the backend, and one of the things we're looking at is to do some cool stuff to hook that heterogeneous data into an API for our customers to use to integrate with our app. We're probably looking to make the jump to Rails 3 (from 2.3.9) soon, and also always on the lookout for any cool new gems that can help streamline things. At the moment, we're a team of three Rails devs (one team lead), and a product manager (and also sales and support, so you can concentrate on development). We're looking to recruit a senior dev now and probably some juniors in the not-too-distant future, as well as probably cross- training some of our other devs. If you're the senior dev we're looking for you'll have been around the traps long enough to have your own take on the design issues inherent in a web app. Probably you'll have worked seriously in Rails, but we'll consider you if you've got serious web dev chops of any sort. Ideally, you'll enjoy solving the sort of problems you find in web development in a way which leaves the code clearer and more expressive (and probably smaller). You'll enjoy sharing new ideas and talking through problems (yours and ours). You'll believe in working towards a code base all the devs own collectively (no silos, no experts). And you'll have the wisdom earned from seeing things done in a number of ways and the burning desire to see things done the right way! As far as how we work, we're aiming for a process that's as agile and frictionless as possible, but we hope your experience and attitude will enable you to join in and reinforce the things we do well and help make positive change where we can improve. So, e.g. we do daily standups, TDD and continuous integration, but we aim to improve code review, test coverage and keep working towards continuous deployment. We work in a nice office on Chapel Street, near South Yarra station (you'd be working on-site, not remote, for the time being). We wear what we like, and there's a ping pong table, a beer fridge, lunch supplies and a real coffee machine (full of Five Senses coffee :) ). For the senior dev position described, we're talking full time permanent @ $80K or north of that based on experience. If you think you can fit in with a team like I described, feel free to contact us if you're not quite at the senior level and we can discuss it. Either way, if it sounds like you, drop us a line (Ben - [email protected] (Team Lead) or Max - [email protected] (CTO) or phone 03 9827 7790) and let us know about you (anything you think is relevant - CV, blogs, GitHub) and we'll take it from there. Cheers, Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
