Ruby on Rails Developer- Two Full Time Positions Available<p>Daily Kos is the nation's largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering average Americans to reshape a political world once only the domain of the rich, powerful, and connected.
The time has come to port Daily Kos from an aging Perl-based architecture to Rails. The project is a good technical challenge--we get almost a million requests a day and have an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to social network features. We aren't a startup--3 million people a month will use the software you build to amplify their voice in the nation's political discussion--and we aren't wondering where the next infusion of cash will come from. Yet, we also have many of the benefits of a startup--we are redefining everything about the Daily Kos platform from low level infrastructure to software architecture to interface design. We are a small, efficient team, running scrum. We code with jquery, backbone.js, scss, the latest stable version of Rails, and have great automated test coverage.<p>We’re searching for full stack developers with real world experience developing Rails applications. You'll be focused on building out features as we move them from the old Perl code base to Rails, from markup to query optimizations. We value careful, deliberate developers who take pride in well crafted code and continue to self educate to keep up with evolving technology and practices.<p>Required skills:
* 2 years Rails development experience
* Javascript and jQuery
* CSS, HTML5 fluency
* Experience writing tests, preferably test first development experience. Rspec is a plus.
* Comfortable with Git<p>These additional qualifications will put you at the top of the list:
* Located in the San Francisco Bay Area (we're in Berkeley)
* Sysadmin
* Chef knowledge
* Understanding and appreciation of graphic design, UX
* Mysql tuning, admin
* Perl<p>Send applications to jobs@dailykos.com