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Pluron is a Silicon Valley startup working on a hosted productivity application for software development teams. This job is with our R&D group in Ukraine in Kiev or Nikolayev. We will consider qualified candidates elsewhere.

We are looking for an exceptional software engineer to join our team building hosted web applications using Ruby on Rails. This is a new technology, so we don’t necessarily expect prior experience. We do expect an impressive software development background, strong motivation and the desire to learn. We consider specific prior knowledge and skills secondary to the ability to get things done, intelligence, motivation and experience.

The ideal candidate will be a generalist, with experience developing both large systems (e.g. operating systems, databases, applications servers, compilers, large-scale enterprise software) and application software. Experience with UNIX is a must. Experience with web applications and databases is extremely helpful. Ruby/Rails experience would be great.

This engineer will work with a product manager, designer and other engineers to develop web application using Ruby on Rails. He/she will be an active contributor in RoR and general open source community, and will become an well-known authority on this domain. He will run operations, administering production and development servers.

Qualifications (several are desirable, NOT all are required)

General:

• Exceptional problem solving skills
• Excellent English
• Superb ability to write prose in any language
• Active participation in open-source projects, mailing lists, blogs

Background/Software Engineering:

• Computer Science or related degree
• Expert knowledge and extensive experience with C and C++
• Mastery of some number of interesting languages (e.g. Lisp, Smalltalk, OCaml, Haskell, Perl, Python, Ruby)
• Commitment to creating modular, loosely coupled designs and writing easily understandable, documented, maintainable code
• Affinity for unit testing, test-driven development, refactoring, interest in Agile development methodologies

Domain Knowledge:

• Experience developing web applications and understanding of the underlying technologies (e.g. HTTP, SSL, tcp)
• Experience with web services
• Extensive experience with relational data modeling, SQL, and other database technologies
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript/AJAX

Tools:

• Extensive experience using UNIX both as advanced user and an administrator.
• Experience administering Debian Linux, web servers, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Subversion, MediaWiki.
• Experience with source control tools (e.g. Subversion, Perforce, ClearCase, CVS) and SCM best practices
• Ability and desire to automate tasks and create tools
• Mastery of an advanced programmer’s editor — Emacs, Eclipse, etc.

Please send your resume and cover letter as plain text, PDF, or MS Word to jobs AT pluron DOT com