Senior Ruby on Rails Developer in NYC(Relo Provided)

Ruby on Rails Developer
Location: NYC or Washington

We are looking for an experienced hands-on Ruby on Rails developer who has experience with working in an agile / scrum environment leveraging Webs/ Rails best practices and has a passion for developing high quality innovative and scalable solutions to challenging problems.

Qualifications:

- Write code in Ruby, HTML/CSS, and Javascript
- Work as part of an Agile development team incorporating feedback from product managers, product support and other development team members
- Design, implement, and maintain Ruby on Rails based components
- Rapidly solve problems and bugs
- Proactively look for ways to make the Bgov product better

Requirements:

- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with Ruby on Rails & MySQL in a consumer facing web environment
- Experience with object oriented analysis/design
- Experience in XHTML, Javascript, CSS and general Web 2.0 techniques
- Familiarity with relational databases, preferably MYSQL and Oracle
- Understanding of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST.
- Understanding of code manipulation and optimization issues
- Knowledge of design patterns, refactoring and unit testing
- Familiarity with the MVC model
- Experience working in Agile environments using Scrum, Pair Programming, or Extreme Programming.
- A proven ability to learn and adapt to new, complex development environments
- Superb analytical skills, self directed, excellent communication skills with engineers and non-engineers, strong team ethic, and pays close attention to details
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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