JOB TITLE: Engineering (Director or Vice President) LOCATION: Currently located in San Jose – Moving to Mountain View area (94043) in Jan 2012 REPORTS TO: CTO - Founder JOB PURPOSE: Directly responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and evaluation of the technology engineering platform, staff, and technologies. Company Description: The client has built a collaborative platform for social expression that allows customers to create photo books and scrapbooks with a free, online scrapbooking editor. Customers can then share their creations online for free, post them to social networks, or order them in print as high quality printed photo books. The client is a start-up that offers all the same benefits you’d find at the Bay Area’s hottest companies. Every employee is an owner – along with competitive compensation packages, you will get a meaningful stake in the company. They have full medical/dental/vision coverage, 15 days paid time off, and all the shiny goodies you need to get your job done: a brand new Mac laptop and a big flat-screen monitor. They provide breakfast every day, regular company lunches, tons of snacks, and they are kind of crazy about drinks too: we have a fridge stocked with Odwallas and beer, over 20 different kinds of tea and four different ways to make coffee – plenty of fuel to keep you happy. Essential Duties And Responsibilities • Manage a team of 15-20 software (Ruby-on-Rails, Flex, UI) and system engineers (DevOps) • Recruit top talent in Ruby-on-Rails and Flex as well as system engineers for available position. Building out the engineering team using very high standard of code quality and code practices. • In this role you will work directly with the company co-Founder and CTO, a 5 + year RoR veteran himself and co-author. • Grow expanding infrastructure and enable client to keep up with fast growing customer base • Responsible for network and system architecture, scaling, monitoring and reliability. • Contribute to planning efforts for disaster recovery, capacity expansion, component upgrading and system hardening. • Day-to-day management of the primary revenue-generating, customer- facing application environments. • Mentor and lead software engineering team to achieve business goals and ambitions. Qualifications • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (MS or Ph.D. a plus.) • Experienced with *nix architecture (Unix, Linux – RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Debian) • Virtualization infrastructure experience (Zen, virtual box, KVM). • Ruby web framework (Rails, Merb, Sinatra) experience*; Experienced with Ruby programming and MVC architecture. • Automated integration testing (Cucumber, Webrat, Capybara, Selenium) experience*; Unit testing (TestUnit, RSpec) experience. • Rich browser-based development (JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS) experience. • Obsessively strives to create the most modular, concise and maintainable code possible – beautiful code to you doesn’t mean pretty syntax highlighting. • Experience working on Agile teams (pair programming, refactoring, story writing and estimation). • Knowledge of debian GNU / Linux, S3, EC2 (Amazon Web Service or AWS exp), MySQL / PostgreSQL (configuration, administration, syntax and query optimization) is highly desired. • Comfortable working with or learning: Chef (Puppet), Nginx, Unicorn, (webserver exp.), Ruby, MySQL, Memcache, Varnish, (caching), RabbitMQ and distributed hash tables (Cassandra, Voldimort, MongoDB, Redis). • Passionate. Driven. High achiever. You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence. • Extremely hard working. You should be ready to make this organization a priority in your life. Work Environment: Work with successful and intelligent team members who all have one common goal – and that’s working together to achieve business goals and ambitions – while having a good time and enjoying it !! It is a casual (yet professional) start-up work environment, working with some interesting and intriguing individuals and success Silicon Valley professionals and technical talent. For IMMEDIATE consideration, please forward a copy of your chronological resume to: Daniel Parrillo Strategi LLC - Union Square, San Francisco 415-695-1600 dparrillo-wmQYHNbaow8ANPMfv7sqcg@public.gmane.org LinkedIn.com Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/strategi SF Job Recruiting Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-19521-SF-Job-Recruiting-Examiner http://www.jobmagic.com/job/Vice-President-of-Engineering-Cloud-Ruby-Flex-Unix-Job-Mountain-View-CA-94043-US-8562560.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.