So I'm looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to join my team at work. We are the Development team for a North American Marketing services company based in the Greater Toronto Area. We produce internal systems for our company. Our company has scale so these systems have an abundance of technical challenges ranging from UX, performance to code organization. If you want to work on a team where you have lots of opportunity to build and solve things in Ruby and Rails, then this is for you.
What can we offer ?
- Our company was just rated 10th best place to work in Canada according to the Great Place Institute. We have a fantastic culture and are very proud of it.
- We're Agile, through and through. You get JIRA, you get stories, you get to talk about points and burn down, 2 week sprints, constant movement
- Career path, you're not just a cog in the wheel. Our goal is to get every team member to the best that they can be and happy with what they're doing through constant evaluation and feedback
- Software, like Github ? That's perfect because we do to. Like Emacs ? Textmate ? That's upto you, we have no code editor preferences
- Like to learn ? We have regular (2x a week at least) code reviews/refactoring/learning sessions
- Want to give back to the Ruby & Rails community ? Have a github account ? We endorse that as well
- Your manager not only loves his team, but also loves to code, and knows what it takes to get stuff done.
What does a day in the life look like ?
You'd say hi to your team members, fire up JIRA, pick off a story. You recall from the sprint planning meeting how this story interacted with the system and set about developing the feature. Perhaps you'd talk with a team member or two on an implementation detail, then fireup Textmate (or vim,emacs..). Pull the latest code and run the tests, then start writing your feature test.
A team member asks for some help, you arrange time and go off to the developer nook, to spend some pair programming time on a couch or at their desk. Then you'll be back at your task. Lunch time rolls around when you want it, but first at 1pm it's standup time. You'd get to find out where everyone's at and give your report. It may be a learning standup where one team member is going to show a refactoring for the next 20mins that everyone looks at learns from, and perhaps makes better.
You'd find a minor business question you need resolved, ask the product owner giving your view of a solution, get an answer and use that to help guide your development. Towards the end of the day tests are green, code is good, you commit and move your story over for the QA guys to have a once over.
Sounds like you ? want to join us ?
Whether you have 6 years or 6 months experience, if you can demonstrate solid understanding of programming principles, Ruby knowledge, Rails knowledge and best practises during our interviews you would be considered for the position. At this time we are looking for candidates to work full time in our office in Mississauga (just near the 401/427) - 15-20 mins from downtown Toronto. We are not looking for remote workers.
To apply please email danica.asanovic@mosaic.com with your resume. If you have a github account or any work artifacts you would like to share, please include details with your resume.
