Ruby On Rails Developers (All Levels), Cambridge, UK, AlphaSights Ltd

AlphaSights Ltd is a knowledge services company that is pioneering new ways for business and financial professionals to rapidly access relevant specialist industry knowledge and professional talent across Europe. Besides leading-edge proprietary technology, our business success is based on our people: intellectually curious by nature, they thrive in an environment of ever-changing challenges calling on their capacity for creative thinking and their ability to deliver results.

AlphaSights was founded by successful entrepreneurs who share a passion for the knowledge economy and who understand its complexities and requirements.  Based in Cambridge and London, our venture-funded company is assembling a best-of-breed team to deliver on the vision of a next-generation knowledge services company. We seek to attract the best and brightest and offer competitive remuneration as well as the prospect of rapid, merit-based promotion.

As a Ruby On Rails developer at AlphaSights Ltd you will play a key role in developing an innovative web based system from the ground up in a fun and rewarding start-up environment.  You will have the opportunity to get involved with the design process early on and help mould our product to become a market leader.  You will have a good background in web based programming with a passion for Ruby and a flair for robust, clean coding.  You will have a keen interest in agile development processes and be a strong, communicative team player.

Your responsibilities include:

• Ruby on Rails software development
• Mentoring other developers, passing on your valuable experience.
• Reviewing and auditing code.
• Database schema design
• Object oriented design
• Front-end web development using JavaScript, XHTML and CSS

Required Skills:

• Demonstrable track record developing substantial web application in Ruby on Rails or similar framework.
• Strong understanding of good code design principals such as DRY and thin controller/fat model
• Understand the key factors in making code secure.
• Testing using Rspec, Shoulda or similar
• Experience in MySQL, Capistrano, Migrations, XHTML, CSS, JQuery/PrototypeJS and RJS
• Good working knowledge of unix-like environments such as MacOS and Linux.

Desired Skills:

• Open source participation
• A background in modelling complex data and data analysis
• Experience using solr and acts_as_solr
• Experience administering Apache and Monit.
• Knowledge and experience of using development approaches laid out in books like “The Pragmatic Programmer” and 37signals “Getting Real”.

Compensation:
Remuneration is highly competitive and will reflect your contribution to our company’s overall success. As a young, fast-growing company we offer excellent career opportunities and you are expected to progress.  Please send your online application including your CV, your salary expectations and a brief covering letter outlining why you think you are suitable for this role to careers@alphasights.com. Contact via email only. No agencies please.