From: Spokeo Recruiting Date: 2006-09-27T05:27:00+09:00 Subject: Job Posting for Ruby Backend Developer in Mountain View, CA === Position === Spokeo, Inc (http://www.spokeo.com) is looking to hire a talented, driven, and performance-minded engineer to do backend development work in Ruby. If interested, please contact ray@spokeo.com and/or call (650) 988-9007. Position is available immediately. We are looking to hire! Compensation is market rate salary with stock options befitting early stage startup. === Company Background === Spokeo, Inc (http://www.spokeo.com) is a beta-stage startup working on a portal to aggregate information across all social networks and personal media sites. Spokeo, Inc was founded in 2006 by 3 Stanford graduate students and has secured medium term financing. Our engineering team is lean, coordinated, and highly proficient. We are looking for another indepentent developer to join our 6 man company. Our offices are located next to 101 in the city of Mountain View, CA. === Technology === Our application is built on the RoR framework. The backend is a mix of RoR and pure Ruby. We work with the latest development, deployment, and production technologies for RoR. === Job Description === We are looking for an experienced Ruby backend programmer to work on all levels of content aggregation: content retriveal (HTTP), content analysis (stream and tree parsing), and database storage. Work will involve feature implementation, stability upgrades, and performance-tuning. - Necessary Skills BS or MS in Computer Science. Ability to work independently. Ability to architect new subsystems and re-architect existing subsystems as the need arises. Thorough knowledge of Ruby and Object-Oriented Programming. Thorough knowledge of MySQL. Thorough knowledge of distributed computing. Understanding of test-driven development. Ability to work in a Linux environment. - Beneficial Skills Knowledge of distributed Ruby (DRb). Knowledge of HTML protocol and any Ruby HTML libraries (Net/Http, Open-URI, Curl) Knowledge of RSS/Atom and any Ruby RSS/Atom libraries (FeedTools, Simple RSS, Syndication...) Knowledge of Ruby parsing libraries (Hpricot, HTMLTokenizer, REXML...) *Note that we only use some of these libraries, but we look for any working knowledge in this area. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.