SOFTWARE ENGINEER (BACK-END) (Permanent Contract / Full-Time) ASMALLWORLD (ASW) is an international private membership club providing members with events, privileges, and community in over 100 cities around the world via the ASW Website and iPhone App. The current version of the ASW website was launched in May 2013 and we are improving and adding to our existing features and functionality on an ongoing basis with lots of exciting new projects on the horizon. The ASW platform consists of a back-end Ruby on Rails API and supporting services, and client applications including a Web app, native iOS client and forthcoming Android client, all with supporting admin CMS. To help us deliver the best possible experience for our members we require an additional full-time Software Engineer to work on our back-end platform, helping maintain and extend our platform across our various client applications, working closely with the front-end engineers. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Extending the capabilities of our back-end platform’s API Helping us move away from a monolithic Rails backend towards a more Service-Oriented Architecture Refactoring and bug-fixing the platform Extending our test coverage Technical Requirements: Degree educated with a minimum of 3 years software development experience Experience in Object Oriented languages & domain driven design Experience in Behaviour-Driven and/or Test-Driven Development Strong understanding of MVC architectures, object-oriented design, database design, JSON APIs and agile development techniques Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS Unix / Linux / Mac OS X command-line proficiency Version control, preferably with Git A passion for clean, simple, well-tested code Front-end development skills a plus Proven track-record in open source a plus Other Requirements: Ability to work & communicate effectively with a geographically dispersed team Ability to work in an Agile software environment with high level requirements Must be flexible and able to work with changing priorities Must be within European Time-zones Must have excellent written and verbal English language skills Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@asw
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:19:12 +0000
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