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Cyrus Innovation’s unique approach to sustainable agile development has been the basis for our success and growth over the past six years. We pride ourselves on being named #231 on the Inc 500’s list of the fastest growing private companies for 2009. While maintaining this level of growth, we have fostered a collaborative environment with a team of passionate agile developers who continue to rise to the challenge of excellence every day.

• Create complex software solutions you will be proud of
• Work with bright, analytical, and experienced programmers
• Code in a true XP Environment: TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, and incredibly lightweight design
• Use exciting, cutting edge Ruby tools like JRuby, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Phusion Passenger, Mongrel, Memcache, BackgrounDRb, Cucumber, Webrat, Rails, Shoulda, and more
• Constantly learn and implement the latest Agile practices, like Kanban and BDD
• Interact directly with clients to gather and analyze business requirements
• Experience all phases of software development from design to implementation
• Have a real voice in critical design decisions

• A quarterly bonus based on company revenues
• A true 40-hour work week
• An energized yet casual working environment
• Full benefits including medical, vision, 401(k) matching, etc.
• An efficient and flat organization where your opinion really matters
• An annual personal budget and paid time off for professional development (conferences, workshops, etc)
• Weekly Kaizen (Process Improvement) Sessions
• Knowledge-sharing brown bag sessions

• A true, demonstrable passion for coding
• A strong enthusiasm for Agile / XP development
• The desire and ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Experience with any Object Oriented programming, such as Java, Ruby, Python, C#, C++, Objective C, Smalltalk, or Visual Basic
• Knowledge of design patterns and refactoring

• Ability to work in New York City or Berkeley Heights, NJ
• Ability to interact well with clients
• Strong interpersonal skills

If interested, send your resume along to Glenn Schieck at gschieck@cyrusinnovation.com

Kickstarter’s determined to change the way that creative ideas are funded, and we’re looking for others like us. Nearly a year old and growing fast, we’ve been featured in Wired, the New York Times’ Year in Ideas, and listed at #1 on Silicon Alley Insider’s Hot NYC Startups to Watch.

We’re looking for a Rails developer with a history of tackling interesting problems and building fun things; someone who seeks elegant solutions to difficult problems, while still pragmatic enough to get things done. We love generalists with experience in every part of the stack and an innate technical curiosity.

You’ll be working on every part of Kickstarter’s back-end, from infoviz and geolocation to APIs and authentication, alongside our small team of passionate geeks. A sense of humor, sense of play, and an open mind are mandatory. And it helps to be well-rounded; it’s no coincidence that everyone on our team has a background in the arts, as well as tech.

Candidates should have a strong background in optimizing and scaling Rails applications, solid understanding of jQuery or equivalent frameworks, and comfort with cloud computing and the Amazon stack. Experience with payment systems would be especially handy.

This position is full-time, on-site at our awesome NYC office in the Lower East Side.

Interested? Send us a little something about yourself, along with links to your personal homepage, resume, and some of the interesting projects you’ve worked on or contributed to. (Extra credit for a link to your Github profile.)

To apply, write to us at devjobs@kickstarter.com

http://kickstarter.com

orderberry llc, a new funded startup focusing on building software solutions is looking for experienced ruby developers.

Experience in project management, agile methods, mobile platforms, and connecting to external APIs is very important.

This is a long-term contract position for candidates in the NYC area.

For more info, please contact tin@orderberry.com

Please send your resume to http://theresa@healthepeeps.com. Please indicate in your email which job you are applying for. We prefer our VP or Team Lead be full time, but Devs and UI can be full or part time, temporary, but not at consulting rates.

Our NYC based company is a very cutting edge funded Health 2.0 start up. We are lead by world-class internet veterans who were previously VPs and CXO’s at DoubleClick and 24/7 Real Media. We have just raised our first round of capital and have commitments for our next round. We’re looking for our ‘rock star’ internet software development team who can annihilate quality code and get us launched. We need the whole team including Team Leads, software developers, and an awesome UI designer.

Our team: we loath corporate environments that reward mediocre work and cut throat politicians; instead, we’d rather blaze our own trail and work smart and efficiently hoping to be rewarded by yours and the company’s rapid success. Team members are creative, self-starters, self-sufficient, detailed, work-a-holics, and out of the box thinkers who ‘get-it’ when it comes to merging tech goals with business goals. You should be too.

As our VP/Dev, you must be a hands on developer (coding 90% of your time) who will lead the team and contribute full time to software development. You will be responsible for building our product from concept through launch using an agile development methodology. You will learn the business & product, do use case scenarios and wire frames, manage the dev teams, design the architecture, participate in coding the product, etc.

You should have 5-10 years experience in internet development + leading teams. The ideal candidate has experience leading a team through the full life cycle of an internet software agile development project from concept through launch…on time, in budget. And, we’re looking for someone who has grown up in internet and knows all the tools and cool things possible for a website and the marketing of a website.

Also as a VP/Dev, you must be able to stand toe to toe with an investor, biz partner, and client and gain immediate respect. This requires experience and reputation, but also in-depth knowledge and great salesmanship and interpersonal relationship skills.

Developer Team Lead: Our Team Lead will lead the technology development while also coding 90% of the time. We are open to this person growing into our VP/Dev and/or CTO. You will be responsible for building our product from concept through launch using an agile development methodology. You will learn the business & product, do use case scenarios and wire frames, manage the dev teams, design the architecture, participate in coding the product, etc. Also you may be invited to investor, biz partner, and client meetings to represent the needs of the tech dev team and project.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: You’ve managed a technical development team who has built an internet platform through the full life cycle of an internet software agile development project from concept to launch, and you can generate confidence that you’ll build ours on time, in budget…and you’ll do it for us. You should have 3-5 years experience in internet development + leading teams. Full or part time, temporary, but not at consultant rates.

Internet Software Developers: 3-5 years experience developing on ROR or other internet software development platforms. Experience developing in an Agile environment. You must be fast and good, easy to work with, and able to understand and contribute to the product.

User Interface Designer: 2-5 years experience and a hot portfolio of web designs and internet product interface designs. Experience designing on Ruby on Rails platform a plus. Portfolio should include wire frame experience/examples. User scenarios a plus.

Looking for a Rails Jedi Knight who likes to eat

Like food? Like Rails? Cookstr is looking for an experienced, creative Ruby on Rails master to take on the role of lead developer. Cookstr is an online recipe site featuring thousands of recipes from the world’s greatest cookbooks. Chefs on Cookstr include Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Daniel Boulud and hundreds more.

Founded by Will Schwalbe, the site was built and designed by Pivotal Labs, The Barbarian Group and Tipping Point Partners. Cookstr has been featured in Top Chef, Vanity Fair, InStyle, the New York Times, and many other media outlets.

• Maintain code base
• Oversee analytics, data management, etc.
• Develop and build new site features using Ruby on Rails
• Reinforce code quality with thorough, test driven development
• Optimize and scale our system (including recipe database) to support user growth
• Collaborate closely with the rest of the team and actively contribute to the progress of the site

• Minimum 2-3 years Rails experience
• HTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX-proficient
• Experience with test-driven feature development
• Reasonable knowledge of SEO
• Startup experience preferred
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical clients
• Ability to communicate requirements through stories in Tracker
• Ability to collaborate on feature design and estimation
• Ability to work with team to prioritize story development
• Superior problem analysis and troubleshooting
• High standards of quality
• Self-starter
• Creativity, passion, and sense of humor

If you’re a talented developer who’s enthusiastic about agile development and interested in working in a fun, creative and challenging environment, please get in touch with us. If you love food and cooking and being around people who love food and cooking, even better. We’re looking for someone to come in-house, but would also be open to a part-timer. If you’re interested, please send an email with a short explanation of why you think you’re the best candidate for the job, along with your resume and links to your work, including any relevant side projects.

Contact Abby Schneiderman at jobs@cookstr.com

Ruby on Rails project work for online health startup

If interested, please send examples of sites you’ve built, a resume and brief note explaining why you’d be a good fit to:
Sdbj88 at gmail dot com
Posted 2/27/10

CTO / VP Engineering at ZepInvest

ZepInvest is a small media startup in NYC looking to change the future of online content. We are funded, we have a working product and customers, and are ready to grow. To do this we need fun, hard working people who can take the company to the next level and set the future of online media.

This role has multiple responsibilities. This person will lead the engineering team; it’s a hands on role of architecture and developing as well as managing, setting the technical vision and strategy, hire/fire responsibility, budgeting, etc. This person will also be the CEO’s partner in running the company at a strategic and operational level and help define the culture of who we want to be.

• Lead the engineering department
• Set the architecture of the product
• Mentor more junior developers
• Responsible for establishing operating procedures, work assignments, planning, and all project management activities
• Oversee outsourcing (if you determine that we should)
• Hiring additional staff and/or contract out work as necessary
• Develop and drive the product roadmap
• Work with the CEO to set the direction of the company
• Report progress to the board
• Participate in all aspects of running the business
• Foster a culture of fun and opportunity

• 6+ years software experience
• 2+ years ruby experience
• You have architected web based products
• You have run software engineering teams and have appropriate project management experience
• You have delivered large scale software projects
• You have worked in a startup environment
• You don’t wait to be told what to you, rather you propose to others what you should be doing to achieve the company goals
• You enjoy the chaos and uncertainty in startups
• Your co-workers like you
• You have taken a leadership role in companies
• You have experience running startups

Senior people will be considered for a CTO / co-founder level role. We are willing to consider a strong tech lead/architect for a VP role, even without significant management/leadership experience if we see the potential in you.

(We are also hiring ruby developers at other levels.)

To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@zepinvest.com. This is a full-time, on-site position in NYC only. Please no recruiters, no contractors, no off-site/off-shore.

Patch
Posted January 13, 2010

Patch is a new local news company focused on reinventing community journalism one town at a time. We employ a full-time editor for each community we serve and create personalized news in towns across the country, encouraging participiation from local users with our high-quality content. We’ve been very successful in meeting our goals so far, and with a big expansion planned for 2010, we need your help!

Front-end Engineer

We’re looking for experienced web developers who are passionate about web standards and semantic markup and have experience delivering it with Ruby web frameworks. Specifically, you should have:

• A passion for JavaScript and UI programming using client-side libraries like jQuery and Prototype.
• Knowledge of advanced client-side techniques including optimization, object-oriented architecture, automated testing, and cross-browser development.
• Experience developing server-side projects with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks.
• Demonstrated skill at developing database-backed web applications.
• A knack for moving back and forth between front-end and back-end tasks effortlessly.
• Ability to work collaboratively with design, product management, and engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of web standards, CSS-based design, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience working with Git or other VCS.

Links to sites you have developed or open source projects you have authored are a huge plus.

Back-end Engineer

We currently have openings for experienced software developers to design, implement, and improve our Ruby on Rails-based local news platform. You have experience building and scaling user-focused web applications, are an independant and creative thinker, and have a strong desire to take ownership of software projects at a small but rapidly growing company.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience developing database-backed web applications.
• Strong familiarity with Ruby on Rails & MySQL (or a similar framework & DB).
• Comfortable with agile software development practices.
• Experience working with Git or other VCS.
• Excellent communication skills with both engineers and non-engineers.
• Links to current projects a plus, open-source projects a huge plus.

Some things that are great about working at Patch:

• We have a spectacular team focused on solving complex problems.
• Our engineers work on fulfilling, self-directed projects.
• We actively encourage participation in open-source projects.
• Competitive pay and benefits including 401k, medical, dental etc.

To apply, please email eng-jobs@patch.com. This is a full-time, on-site position in NYC only. No recruiters please (for real, you keep ignoring this, but for real).

Leading NYC software development agency is looking for an outstanding, highly organized Ruby on Rails developer who will play a key role in development and deployment our our software application.

• hands-on development and augmentation of the software application and its functions
• Strong ownership of the the project and your development efforts
• come with a track record of delivering high quality work on time and on budget
• have an aptitude for creatively solving unstructured business problems

• Very strong Ruby on Rails
• Very strong HTML/XHTML, HTML5
• CSS 2/2.1/3
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript
• jQuery
• Experience in developing AJAX enabled applications
• W3C standards, Cross Browser Compatibility
• Understanding XML, JSON
• Knowledge of Web 2.0 and Social Technologies

• Onsite, New York City. No telecommuting.

• 1 to 2 months with potential down stream efforts.

• Vendor hourly rate or negotiated contract or hourly rate.

• Minimum 4 years of post-college experience directly relevant to the responsibilities described above
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science from a top school is preferred

Flat World Knowledge is looking for a Senior Web Developer with a combination of strong PHP / Ruby / SQL, XML, software design principles, and hands-on architectural / framework expertise, management experience as well as knowledge of XHTML, CSS and Javascript. You will work across the entire technology stack and be fully responsible for what you build. You will write elegant, maintainable, scalable code every day. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and innovative, good at “getting things done”, and have a passion for what we do. You will help build a cutting edge open textbook publishing platform.

• Designing and implementing core software components for new Flat World Knowledge website features using open-source technologies
• Supporting production applications and architecture
• Improving our internal tools, frameworks, and development practices
• Ensuring software delivered by the team is of requisite quality

• 7+ years experience
• An intimate familiarity with at least one web development framework (Rails, Django, CakePHP, Drupal, etc)
• Experience with XHTML, CSS and Javascript
• Independent problem solving skills, ability to write code that scales
• Understanding of how the web works, from low to high levels
• Familiarity with a wide range of relevant technologies and web standards
• Flexibility: we are small company, but we move quickly

• Expert knowledge of Agile engineering practices (or similar) including Test Driven Development
• DocBook XML
• Experience with publishing technologies
• Drupal, Subversion, MySQL
• Web services
• Linux CLI

BS level education in relevant discipline or equivalent experience

• Willingness to commit to a goal
• Obscene level of productivity
• Ability to focus on job in hand
• Openness and clarity in communication
• detail-oriented, methodical, a perfectionist and work well with others
• Strong leadership
• Ability to work well in a collaborative team environment
• Desire and drive to deliver
• Passionate about Open Education

Founded in 2007 by textbook publishing industry veterans Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank, privately held Flat World Knowledge is a leading publisher of open textbooks for higher education. Flat World Knowledge’s textbooks are written by the world’s leading subject matter experts. The books are peer-reviewed, professionally edited, and made available for free online under a Creative Commons license to educators and students. Educators have the freedom to use the books as-is, or to reorganize and edit them to suit their unique classroom requirements. Students can access the books for free online, or purchase alternatives from print-on-demand versions of the books, to audio versions, to downloadable versions and more at a fraction of the cost of traditional textbooks. Students can also purchase from a range of digital study aids that support each book. Flat World Knowledge backs its textbooks with an online social learning platform that allows students to learn from each other as well as from the book. More information about Flat World Knowledge is available on the Web at www.flatworldknowledge.com.

GILT GROUPE IS HIRING!!!

Senior Software Engineer

Company Background:

Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men’s, Women’s, Children’s, Beauty, and Home coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. The business model, based on urgency and scarcity, offers extraordinary goods at incredible prices, but only for a limited time. All of these sales occur daily at noon, driven by daily email reminders and alerts to a private membership. Most of the hot items are sold within the first 10 minutes, with the bulk of sales occurring within the first 90 minutes.
Job Description:

We are looking for the few individuals that have the knowledge, passion, and drive to change the way we shop for luxury items online. We are deploying the latest technology to support the higest quality user experience while gathering the data we need to support a data-driven decision making process.

As more of us elect to buy online, hard core developers know that data-driven online retail eCommerce is where they’ll find the most interesting work today, and position themselves for solid career advancement down the line. As a Senior Software Engineer for Gilt Groupe, the luxury fashion online retailer in New York City, you’ll join an elite development team and take digital merchandising to the next level. Your work here involves not just our website, but all the key back-end business functions that run our business, including purchasing, receiving, inventory management, shipping and customer intelligence. In our rapid software development lifecycle environment, you’ll see the meaningful results of your work quickly, sometimes within weeks. And we offer an honest and open environment, highly receptive to your ideas, highlighted by weekly tech team offsite hackfests. Our company is growing rapidly and we’re looking for a few very talented, highly qualified developers to help us stay ahead of the growth. Take step one on your new career by applying today. Relocation assistance and H1b visa transfers are available for qualified candidates.

As a Senior Software Engineer in New York’s Chelsea district, one of your first missions will be learning Ruby to supplement your solid background in object-oriented development. You’re likely to thrive in this role with 5 years C/C++ coding in environments where the performance implications of applications you designed, architected and built were paramount. Ideally, you then took those skills into website development, learned J2EE, Python or PHP, and perhaps Rails, and worked on high performance, highly scalable websites.
Here are a few of the meaningful projects currently on our docket:

• Redesigning the back-end UI for a better user experience. Keep in mind that the public Gilt Groupe website is only a small portion of the overall technology used in our business. You’ll also get a chance to design a new admin website, and create a portal into our business processes, work that will involve a bit of architecture as well as the UI. You’ll be automating business processes across the enterprise, from purchasing to receiving to inventory control and shipping. We’ll look to your insights in how we can automate complex business processes, and how we can better organize data. Your ability to understand and design key workflows so you can contribute to the overall network architecture and database design, will be key.
• Designing, architecting and building our reporting infrastructure. You’ll approach this design heavy function almost as a data warehouse project. You’ll help our organization ID those members of Gilt who are our most valuable, to forecast future customer behavior and help us to better estimate what types of merchandise, and how much of it, to purchase.

What makes working here enviable is that we foster a learning and educational environment. We use new ideas and incorporate the latest technologies to address the very issues that prove vexing when you buy online!

Up to now, we have outsourced all site development to freelance programmers in order to conserve our precious start-up cash. After speaking with interested investors, it’s clear that the time has come for us to begin our search for our first technical team member, to help with the upcoming growth & launch of the business, to take us to the next level. Now is the perfect time for the right developer interested in helping to transform the way the book industry socializes & interacts to join us.

These are 2 excellent positions with a TOP company in digital media, not a start-up, this is in one of the most high-visibility groups, “direct-to-consumer” in the organization. Please call or email me if you have questions/would like to discuss. Also these positions are very hot, just came out, competition will be light!!

Java and Ruby Developer. Enterprise e-commerce applications, direct-to-consumer, royalties, etc., for a centralized metadata repository. Rapid Application Development, SCRUM exposure a solid plus.

Please contact me directly to discuss:

Mike Marc-Aurele
Senior Resource Manager
CTI TEKSOURCE
212 453 9009
973 557 5386
mmaurele [at] ctiteksource [dot] com

We are looking for a smart, team-oriented programmer with a “Getting Things Done” attitude to help us develop our technology and launch our business. We’re looking for someone who enjoys challenges and wants to be part of something big. Skills required: Rails 2.2+, MySQL wizardry, mod_rails, understands hosting/scaling production rails sites, HTML/CSS, JS (jquery), with knowledge of ecommerce/payment gateway integration a plus. Compensation will be in the form of a competitive cash and equity package.

Where others have tried and failed, two frustrated New York City renters think they’ve solved the rental equation – no more Craigslist fake listings, no more high commissions, no more unreliable brokers, just a quality apartment search experience – and we’re looking for a smart and motivated web developer to contribute to the idea and vision, and be the lead on development. The Naked Apartments business model is both blatantly obvious and never been done before.

Business startup is funded and about to hit the ground running. Well-connected, ambitious – the good kind – founders have internet and financial backgrounds. Please contact Shankar Desai at sdesai@post.harvard.edu for more information.

I’m looking for a RoR developer to create a fairly simple website . To make things easier, I already sketched out the wireframes & graphics that I would like to use. My budget is $700-$1,000. If you do a good job, I will tip as well.

Here are the basic features that the site needs:

CMS
Advertising
RSS Feed
Sitemap
Forum
Header: uploadable
Calendar
Newsletter
Contact Form
Posting Events: Images/Text
Featured Person

If you are interested in this freelance contract job, send us a link to your website, or send us some of your previous ruby on rails work for consideration.

email Steven: cr8z26 [at] gmail [dot] com

Dmitriy Goldin

dgoldin@gtechny.com

AIM screen name: GTechNY