Music service developer (Ruby), Brick Lane, London, Playlouder MSP

Playlouder MSP has been working with ISPs and the music industry to develop both an innovative business model for music consumption, and innovative user experiences around music and communication to complement ISPs’ offerings.

As a key addition to our small but growing development team, you will be critical in helping to refine, scale and roll out our application and service to white-label ISP clients.

Key requirements

• Background in computer science, mathematics, software engineering or similar (degree or equivalent experience)
• A solid technical all-rounder with software development experience on sizeable projects

The specifics

Our work involves all of the following, and you’ll be tackling problems involving many of them:

• Dynamic languages (experience with Ruby, on which our current implementation is based, would be particularly desirable)
• Rich web application development with a large Javascript-based client-side portion
• A modular, widget-based user interface framework for the above
• Databases (MySQL at present), data modeling and ORM tools
• Unix-based deployment environments
• Large volumes of media, media metadata and usage statistics
• Web services APIs, and large-scale integration work
• Server push technologies, and scaling applications with a live messaging component
• Common agile software development tools, processes and techniques - source control, bug tracking, testing etc
• A warehouse full of music geeks

Some other things which you might get to play with:

• Other languages - Java, Python, C, possibly Erlang (see ‘messaging’ above), …
• Messaging technologies like AMQP, ActiveMQ, XMPP
• Music technology R&D projects
• Lots more in a fast-growing company

In return we can offer challenging problems in an interesting domain, competitive pay, and a great work environment for music fans in our E2 warehouse!

Enquiries to help@playlouder.com