Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | Leading Brand Communications Agency | South Yorkshire | 30K-35K + Bens

Job title: Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Location: South Yorkshire

Reporting to: Interactive Director

Salary: Neg. 30 – 35 + Benz

Company overview

Our client is a highly successful, brand communications agency specialising in corporate communications, digital media and on and off line marketing consultancy. They are a small agency with a blue chip national and international client base. Their focus is powerful ideas, outstanding quality and excellent client relationships. Their Interactive team is line managed by a Project Director and consists of three developers, one interactive designer, project Manager and a search engine marketing administrator. All work is overseen and managed by a project manager and the interactive team collaborates closely with the design and marketing team on all projects. The Interactive team has a number of high profile clients.

The candidate

We are looking for a talented senior web developer with a history of commercial web application design and development and exposure to the full project life cycle. The successful candidate must have a working knowledge of software design patterns, a clear understanding of web and system security issues and designing for best application performance. They will be at home in a Unix shell such as Bash and have a good working knowledge of Unix command line tools such as tar, sed, grep, awk and find.

Responsibilities

• Commercial website application design and development (min 3 years)
• Preparing functional and technical specifications in collaboration with the Project Director
• Working closely with directors and clients ensuring projects are completed on time/budget
• Participating in client meetings when appropriate and be able to discuss technical issues in a
  clear and positive way to non-technical audiences.
• Keeping fully abreast of latest thinking in all areas of web development

Essential requirements

• Outstanding Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris, Ruby on Rails, Apache, MySQL and PHP skills
• Clean sheet relational database design together with very good SQL skills
• Must have experience of importing and manipulating data with SQL scripts
• HTML and CSS experience
• Experience of payment gateways
• Good working knowledge of e-mail, FTP
• Thorough knowledge of website accessibility guidelines and data protection practices
• Experience working directly with clients in a highly professional manner
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent people skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work quickly and to tight deadlines
• Fluent in English if English is not primary language
• Sense of humour
• Digital agency environment background preferred

Experience of the following would be a distinct advantage:

• Java Script, AJAX and dynamic HTML
• Subversion
• Redmine
• Perl or Bash scripting
• PostgreSQL
• DNS and Bind
• In-depth TCP/IP and firewalls
• Java, JSP, Spring, Hibernate or iBatis
  ASP.Net/C#

This is a key role in a company that is not afraid to make use of cutting-edge open source technologies in order to deliver the next generation of web applications to major B2B and B2C clients.

If you would like to be considered for this role please email a copy of your CV to consultants@humtons.com