Job opening - Howcast: Lead Ruby Engineer

Location: New York, NY
URL: http://www.howcast.com

Howcast is an NYC media start-up that creates and serves a growing library of the web’s best instructional videos to over 20 million people a month!

We’ve formed a new engineering team in our SoHo office and we’re looking for someone to lead it!  If you have the technical chops to guide web and mobile development projects, are looking to grow your management skills but still want to stay hands on, and enjoy creative exchanges and collaboration with writers and filmmakers then read on.

An ideal candidate would have a broad array of skills related to modern website development, including:

• Strong Ruby experience
• Rails, as well as other Ruby frameworks like Sinatra
• Experience building dynamic web UIs with JavaScript
• Knowledge of SQL and database design
• Experience deploying scalable systems in a cloud environment (EC2, H! eroku, etc)

Experience with any of these is also a plus:

• NoSQL
• Behavior-driven development tools (RSpec, Cucumber)
• iOS app development

If this sounds like a fit, we’d love to hear from you!

To apply: Please send us a note at jobs+eng@howcast.com telling us a little bit about yourself along with your resume.

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