Ruby Revelopment Team Leader

My Client is an exciting and innovative London based start-Up looking for a Ruby Development Team Lead to join their team who take a fresh approach to how technology can be utilised by businesses. You will be in a growing Ruby team in a growing business, a growth you will benefit from as well … as the business grows so will your career. My client work in a fast paced agile environment defined by pragmatism and the strong desire to constantly learn and find new solutions to problems.

Your role will be 50% getting your hands dirty with the technology with 50% of your time spent engaging with management duties. This role will probably be for you if you have been a Senior Dev and are aiming for a CTO role in the future but don’t want to leave the nitty gritty technology side of your work behind just yet.

Skills Required
Ruby
Rails
HTML5, CSS3
jQuery & its various plugins
Knowledge of the web in general, its protocols and its building blocks
Git
Test Driven Development with Rspec

Nice to haves
Experience in other languages & frameworks (e.g. Sinatra, Java, Python, PHP)
Managing complexity in large Rails codebases
Agile methodologies
unobtrusive Javascript & responsive design
Coffeescript
Ubuntu & Bash scripting
MySQL, transaction management and optimization
TeamCity, Redmine
RESTful APIs, RSS, XML, ATOM, JSON, oAuth
Scripted deployment with Capistrano
RabbitMQ
state_machine
Cloud-based hosting - AWS, EC2, EBS, RDS
Software As A Service models
NGINX & Apache configuration
Unicorn & Thin app servers
networking - HTTP, DNS, routing, etc.
SEO
Self-hosted multi-site Wordpress, and its plugins, themes and performance characteristics

So if this sounds up your street get in touch ASAP with your updated CV either by applying direct to this Ad or email your CV to alex.hebbes@harveynash.com