Ruby-on-Rails Engineer

Company DescriptionPyramid is a leading Information Technology Consulting services company headquartered in metropolitan Atlanta, GA with prime emphasis on the following service offerings: Staff Augmentation Lifecycle IT solutions Application Development & Support Outsourced Testing Mobile Development and Test Automation 

Job DescriptionJob Title:

Ruby-on-Rails EngineerLocation:

San Diego, CADuration:

6+

Months ContractJob Description:

Client's Central Technology Organization (CTO) drives client's technology principals, shared services and assets. We leverage the talent and skills of our organization to enable engineering productivity across the enterprise.

Live Community is Client's flagship Social Platform (Social CRM) that powers a rich and productive experience for customers and company to share information which in turn, leads to customer satisfaction, reduced costs and increased revenue. Making this experience scale across the millions of users who use client products every day introduces new challenges that have never before been solved. By leveraging leading open source components and platforms and exploring new models for improving social behavior the Live Community team is innovating and pioneering efforts in the Social CRM market. Candidates must demonstrate mastery of Ruby on Rails so they can hit the ground sprinting. Experience with large web-sites, multi-tier, performance sensitive applications will be needed as develop efforts must consider multiple factors. 

QualificationsQualifications:

• 5+ years' experience building production systems with web-scripting languages including Ruby, Perl or PHP
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• Strong experience with any of the following Ruby, Rails, Linux, HTML, AWS, AJAX, JavaScript and JS libraries, HTTP, HTML5, CSS3, MySQL, Redis, Memcache
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• 2+ years' experience with web services (consuming or creating) with REST.
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of the Software design/architecture process.
• Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large scale, consumer facing web or mobile applications.
• Experience with social, mobile, cloud/SaaS, big data, or analytics.
• Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available web applications.
• Experience with various, modern web frameworks.