senior ruby developer agile evangelist london k to k plus share options in this fast growing startup our client is an internet startup that works in the ecommerce delivery channel and has a market changing solution that is really taking off they are becoming one of uks fastest growing startups but still have even greater ambitions they are looking for senior ruby developer and agile evangelist to join this london based startup fantastic opportunity to join high growth venture capital backed business with a team that is making a major impact you will join engineering team and will be instrumental in architecting designing building and scaling technology platform working as part of small team with flat structure following agile software development practices scrum they follow tdd using cucumber and rspec use continuous integration frequently pair program and place high value on clean maintainable and welldesigned code all with healthy dose of pragmatism ideal person is a passionate and highly motivated developer required skills expert knowledge of refactoring oo design design patterns test driven development languagesframeworks joosy ruby rails sinatra web servers nginx apache passenger thin databases sql and nosql neoj postgres mongodb mysql redis memcached os linux mac api development rest oauth json web development html css sass javascript coffeescript ajax jquery haml testing frameworks capybara cucumber rspec other ruby ecosystem technologies selfstarter able to propose and execute complex software development initiatives passion for new technologies elearning and able to share and introduce new ideas into the team expertise in application troubleshooting performance evaluation and tuning and debugging candidate requirements 5 years software development experience 3 years ruby development experience previous experience in a technical leadership role a plus previous experience as a scrum master a plus experience building and scaling large internet applications active participation in the ruby and open source communities expert knowledge of oo design design patterns and refactoring ruby rails sinatra linux apache passenger thin nginx eventmachine jruby sql mysql postgres xml json dhtml css javascript ajax jquery haml sass memcached redis cucumber rspec and other cool technologies in ruby ecosystem selfstarter able to propose and execute complex software development initiatives active participation in the ruby and open source communities passion for new technologies selfdirected learning and ability to share and introduce new ideas into a team environment expertise in application troubleshooting debugging and performance evaluation and tuning