Job opening - Simon & Schuster: Description RoR/Agile Developer

Location: New York City, NY
URL: http://www.simonandschuster.biz/careers

Description

RoR/Agile Developer â€" New York City

Scrum/XP team in midtown Manhattan looking for an experienced Rubyist or experienced Java/C# developer interested in learning Ruby.

Join as one of four developers on an established Scrum/XP team with a scrum master and product ownership. Work entails creating and maintaining Ruby on Rails websites and other consumer digital products for Simon & Schuster, a leading English Language trade publisher. Position reports directly to VP Engineering for Simon & Schuster Digital with nine years experience collaborating with Agile teams. Simon & Schuster is a women-run organization, an equal opportunity employer and a part of CBS Corporation. We value creativity, collaboration, sustainable pace and work-life balance.

Required Skills:

2-3 years professional experience working with Ruby on Rails or equivalent experience in object oriented languages such as Java, C# or PHP and willingness to learn Ruby.

Experience with Extreme Programming (XP) development and Scrum lifecycle practices, or a strong desire to learn including: pair programming, test driven development, continuous integration, iterative delivery, retrospection

Interpersonal skills to collaborate closely with cross-functional team and to communicate with executive sponsors

Fluency in software coding patterns: model-view-controller pattern, object-relational mapping, RESTful services

Fluency in software coding techniques: unit testing, code refactoring, observance of team coding standards.

Ability to work on-site in Midtown Manhattan

Experience implementing semantic HTML/CSS

Experience with Javascript (using frameworks such as JQuery)

Preferred Skills/Experience

Experience building DHTML/HTML5 user experiences

Experience with Rspec, xUnit frameworks

Experience optimizing Rails/mysql databases

Experience with XML, XQuery, xslt a plus

Experience with Redis, NoSQL a plus

Knowledge of Objective-C, Cocoa, and Mac/iPhone Frameworks a plus

Experience in C#.NET, SQL Server, a plus

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