Isotope11 (http://www.isotope11.com) is growing. We need fresh blood. The ideal candidate wants to work with Ruby every day. Having said that, there are really four paths that make sense, in my opinion:
- You are very familiar with PHP or C#/.Net, but you have a desire to work with Ruby. We currently have some PHP or C# work that we could get if we had the resources to get it done; or - You are somewhat masterful with Ruby, and think that you could be producing production-ready work in very short order; or - You are new to Ruby but have some experience with dynamic languages and a desire to learn; or - You are a technician and are willing to work primarily as a technician, but you're willing/able to take on some Ruby or Rails projects in small quantity throughout the week.
We currently develop web apps in Rails, primarily, but there's always odd work, and plenty of Ruby-specific work if you're familiar with Ruby but not yet familiar with Rails. We may well be developing in Merb a year from now, who knows? The point is, programming >> any specific skillset.
Subsets of the following skills will impress us. None are explicitly required, but having at least three or so is a good benchmark: - Ruby / Rails - .Net - PHP - SQL (MySQL / Postgres experience) - *nix server administration - A desire to work in an open-source friendly environment (only 25% of us use windows at present, and even Laird has Ubuntu on a VM inside windows) - CSS - XHTML - Graphic design - Experience deploying production web sites / webapps.
If anyone's interested, you can contact us at info@isotope11.com with your resume. The sooner, the better.