Ruby on Rails Team Lead (SoHo)
at ideeli.com
Full Time | 26 July 2010
(New York, United States) ideeli is a huge cloud shop located in NYC (SoHo) with Ruby on Rails / MySQL on a Linux / Amazon EC2 / S3 platform.
We need smart, innovative creative thinkers to help us solve complex challenges associated with building robust, fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable systems.
Here is why
* Our site exceeds one thousand (1,000) hits / sec at peak
* Push a Gigabit / sec bandwidth on a RoR stack
* 100 plus “add to cart” / sec
* Scaled front-end with 3 to 30 AWS instances and another 25 in the back-end
Interactive JavaScript UI and REST API’s
* Over one million emails sent daily
* New memcache techniques
* iPhone / mobile implementation
* 15% of revenue is processed in 5 minutes daily
ideeli.com is an exciting, venture-funded (over $30 million to date) community/commerce startup implemented entirely in Ruby on Rails. We believe in small teams, agile development, quick turnaround, and getting things done. Across the entire company you'll find we're exceptionally ambitious and have been so successful that our initial investors have all increased their investment.
Our needs extend to scalability, integrations with mobile phones (WAP, iPhone,etc), integration with accounting/tax systems and other non-HTTP environments, advanced UI, and much more. We are seeking a creative, passionate people who enjoy working hard as part of an effective, small team.
Our user base (currently 2.7 million) continues to grow and we are selling more products to more users, even faster! This demand creates some interesting challenges and therefore we are looking to broaden our team with the additional developers, architects, system engineers and support specialists to help solve these.
Reasons you should join the ideeli team
- You like developing software and seeing it used by hundreds of thousands of people
- You want to see how well your software performs with thousands of simultaneous requests
- You want to do things no one has done before - and do it well
- You crave a fast-paced environment, using agile development methodologies, with very smart people, minimal management overhead, and getting things done
Recent Article
Ideeli CEO Plans For IPO
http://www.thestreet.com/video/10805559/ideeli-ceo-plans-for-ipo.html#114675485001
Ruby on Rails Team Lead
We are looking for someone who can lead a handful of developers. If you are a hands-on developer who likes to get stuff done, but who also can juggle the workstacks and priorities of a few other experienced developers to ensure that their features get completed on time – we should talk.
You'll report to the Director of Technology and work closely with the other Rails Team Leads and engineers to collectively deliver much needed features to the business, release after release.
If you are interested in discussing this or other opportunities available at ideeli, please contact Tom Cassidy at tcassidy@ideeli.com
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