Database Radio interviews Robby Russell

Planet Argon’s Chief Evangelist, Robby Russell, was recently interviewed by Bob Zurek of the EnterpriseDB’s Database Radio podcast. The discussion covers topics ranging from our usage of PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails to best practices for developers and open source communities...

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Rails Developer

Join the Make It Happen team.

Position Summary

As a Ruby on Rails Developer at Planet Argon, you'll be responsible for helping Make It Happen for our clients.

We are a small team and wear many hats. In addition to the list of responsibilities below we also expect all of our team members to participate in our marketing efforts, whether that’s writing a blog post, offering to speak at a conference, or coming up with ideas for new initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Directly providing assistance to existing clients with day-to-day technical needs.
• Collaborating closely with our designers and other developers.
• Development of internal software applications.
• Assist team with systems administration of legacy web servers and systems.
• Researching and sharing knowledge about ways to continuously improve our workflow as a team.
• Tracking time/work for our billing needs.

Required Skills

• 2+ years of experience with the Ruby on Rails framework
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with external clients and vendors
• Comfortable on a Mac
• Familiarity with the Agile manifesto

Desired Skills

• Test-driven and/or behavior-driven development (TDD/BDD)
• Linux or other UNIX-like systems
• Rails deployment
• Experience with SCMs (Git, Subversion, etc.)
• HTML/CSS
• Javascript / Ajax

Location and Schedule Requirements

Preference for Portland-based, but will consider remote candidates.

We’re looking for a morning person. Given that our largest client is based in London (8 hour time difference), we aim to have as much overlap in our schedules as possible. The current arrangement is that they start their business day a little later and we start ours a little earlier. Currently, a few of us begin our work day anywhere between 6-8 AM and we hope to find someone who will be comfortable starting their day no-later than 8 AM.

Don’t worry! We keep the kitchen stocked with Stumptown coffee beans.

How to Apply

Please respond with a cover letter and resume to jobs+developer@planetargon.com with the following:

• Describe your overall experience in the web development industry.
• Why you think you'd make a great addition to our small team.
• How your experience might apply to some of our existing client work (see our projects page for some recent work).
• Your availability (when can you start) and your salary expectations.

This is a full-time position. Responses from freelancers or recruiters offering their services will be ignored.

Email your response as requested and include the title of the position your are applying for. Please do not drop off your resume in person, this is a distraction to our team.

This position was re-posted on December 16, 2011.

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Planet Argon is an equal-opportunity employer.