We're growing our team and we're looking for great developers who would love the opportunity to work in Australia's premier Ruby development company. We're calling out to developers with deep commercial Ruby experience who have built high traffic applications that like working in cross-functional teams.
You'd be primarily doing backend Ruby and Rails work, but we also expect that you're a pretty comfortable working on the full stack. We'd expect you know how to write well isolated tests, you value pragmatic design, want to easily deploy to production and care about writing good software. That's what we do.
Our Marketplace is loved by our customers and receives an extremely high amount of traffic - larger than most websites in Australia. If you're interested we'd love to give you a role in our company that strives for technical excellence, is relaxed, humane and lets you make decisions.
- Writing clean, well thought out and reliable code
- Lead small, functionally oriented projects containing team members with different skills and levels of knowledge
- You'll work on big projects, small maintenance tasks, server management tasks and anything else that makes software our customers love
- Providing input into the design of the Marketplace's core services
- We don't have testers or sysadmins so you'll be ensuring your work is production ready and deployed
- Be a nice person
- Communicate well in person and in writing
- Be a curious person committed to continual learning
- Be capable of writing clean, well thought out, and reliable code
- Be able to follow a project through from the original fuzzy brief through development and deployment and beyond with minimal oversight required
- Be comfortable in a Linux software development and deployment environment
- Be a nice person & be funny
- Have commercial Ruby on Rails experience
- Have solid TDD/BDD experience
- Have experience of other high volume/scale web apps
- Contribute to Open Source projects
- Past experience in other agile environments
- Excellent linux knowledge
We're 7 years old, bootstrapped, profitable, and proud. (We were even featured in the 37signals series of the same name.)
From our home page:
Our mission is to help people to earn and to learn, online. We operate marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of people buy and sell digital goods every day, and a network of educational blogs where millions learn creative skills.
We now have 9 marketplaces, with over a 4 million items for sale, and 3.6 million users. Our biggest marketplace is ThemeForest, which is the clear leader in its space, and has anAlexa rank of around 115. Our users are engaged and passionate. They tell us quick smart on the forums when we do something well or do it badly.
- We're careful about hiring, and have built a team of great devs.
- Developers are responsible for features from inception through to them being in the hands of customers. The devs talk directly to customers about what they're working on.
- We do continuous delivery properly: any team member can deploy, and we regularly do several deploys a day.
- We publish portions of our code as open source, and contribute back to open source projects we use.
- We run weekly retro and education sessions, and constantly encourage our team to improve their craft.
The line: "A computer beat me in chess, but it was no match when it came to kickboxing."