Friday 7 September 2012

Senior Developer (Ruby/Ruby on Rails) | London, UK | up to £55,000 + Benefits



AdRoc Group is currently working with a small London based development team who were acquired by a NASDAQ listed organisation last year, the parent company employs around 500 people and turns over in excess of $100 Million a year.

They are looking for a Senior Developer who is not only experienced in Ruby but expresses an interest in other languages. Someone who is willing to step outside of their comfort zone and choose a functional programming language and enjoy pairing in order to better solve a problem and improve their skills would be the ideal candidate.

You will work on a wide range of projects including improving their backend services; a platform that currently manages millions of data points per day from thousands of individuals, organisations & companies around the world.
You will also help them add features and innovate on their consumer and community facing Ruby on Rails website.

The team take great pride in their engineering practices. They adhere to Scrum and follow a bi-weekly sprint cycle. However, due to their high levels of automation and testing, deployment is near continuous. You’ll be working with a wide range of technologies including but not limited to:

• Ruby/Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Redis
• Node.js EventMachine and RabbitMQ
• Git for source code management

Every week the close knit team commit to a hack day to research new frameworks/other technologies..

If you’re interested in speaking further about this opportunity, please e-mail your CV along with a link to your github repo to revans@adrocgroup.co.uk

All contact is held in the strictest confidence.

Senior Developer (Ruby/Ruby on Rails) | London, UK | up to £70,000 + Benefits




AdRoc Group is currently working with a rapidly expanding, award winning technology driven organisation based seconds from London’s “Silicon Roundabout”.

They are urgently looking for a Senior Ruby/Ruby on Rails Developer to join their London development team to work on varied projects ranging from designing, architecting and building out complex web based applications from the ground up – to refactoring their existing systems and helping them to migrate this system from other language to Ruby.

The team work within a strict TDD/BDD environment using a range of technologies including, but not limited to:

• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, Java
• RSpec for testing
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Unix/Linux
• MySQL
• Git for source code management

This company offer a fun and flexible working environment where you will always be encouraged to learn, research and play around with new technologies.

They host regular hack days, pay for lunch on a Friday for all employees and have an annual company trip to Europe….

If you’re interested in speaking further about this opportunity, please e-mail your CV along with a link to your github repo to revans@adrocgroup.co.uk

All contact is held in the strictest confidence.


Senior Developer (Ruby/Scala/Java/Clojure) x 2 | London, UK | up to £55,000 + Benefits



AdRoc Group is working with a small, but fast growing organisation who are looking for 2 Senior Developers to join there R+D team.

This research and development function was set up two years ago, the team focus on building web-based applications, both internally and public facing and also partner with external start-ups, SME’s and other dotcoms to assist in the design and build of complex, high transactions technology platforms.

The technology stack changes from project to project including:

• Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Sinatra
• Scala/Java/Clojure
• HTML/ CSS/ Javascript
• MySQL/ PostgreSQL/ Cassandra/ Solr/ RabbitMQ/Hadoop
• TDD using RSpec
• Mac OS X for development Linux for deployment

This team is active within the Rails space, if you were at #scotruby – you would have met some of the team over a pint or scotch for sure! If you weren’t at the Scottish Ruby Conference earlier on in the year and you live in London – you would know some of them from LRUG.

If you’re interested in speaking further about this opportunity, please e-mail your CV along with a link to your github repo to revans@adrocgroup.co.uk

All contact is held in the strictest confidence.

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | London, UK | up to £55,000 + Benefits



AdRoc Group have recently partnered with a one of the worlds largest, privately owned publishing companies who are looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer to join their London team.

This small, but talented team work within a solid agile/TDD environment to deliver well-tested and maintainable code for everything they ship… You will work closely with all divisions within the group to get a real understanding of how the software you build effects the end users….

Ideally you’ll have experience with the following stack:

• Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Sinatra
• Node.js
• MySQL, Memcached and Redis
• Puppet or Chef for configuration management
• Agile/TDD using RSpec
• Git for source code management

This team have been active amongst the Ruby scene for a long while, they have a very low turnover of staff in a very buoyant market for job seekers – I’m confident any Rubyist who enjoys varied project work, personal development time to research new tech and the option to work from home one day a week would love to be a part of this team…

If you’re interested in speaking further about this opportunity, please e-mail your CV along with a link to your github repo to revans@adrocgroup.co.uk

All contact is held in the strictest confidence.

Midlevel & Senior Ruby on Rails Developers | London, UK | up to £55,000 + Benefits



AdRoc Group are working with a Series A funded start up based on “the silicon roundabout” who are looking for two Ruby on Rails Developers to join them….

The VC firm they have received a seven figure investment round from have a strong reputation within the start-up world of building, supporting and selling technology based start-ups. Previous ventures include Made.com, TweetDeck and Lanyrd….

Within this team you will be working on varied projects from re-building the existing platform using Ruby/Rails and associated tech, to building API’s and the i18n of the platform in the coming months….

Ideally you will have experience with the following technical stack:

• Ruby/Rails
• TDD using RSpec
• JQuery
• Mongo_DB
• Git for SCM

An interest or any exposure to building iOS/Android apps would be great too :)

I’ve known the Head of Development at this company for years, he’s a top guy, who has a long list of recommendations from Rubyists who have worked within him in the past. Some have already joined him…. ;)

If you’re interested in speaking further about this opportunity, please e-mail your CV along with a link to your github repo to revans@adrocgroup.co.uk

All contact is held in the strictest confidence.