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Full time Rails Developer (Chicago, IL)


Date: 2009-10-30, 4:36AM CDT
Reply to: mischa@captainu.com [Errors when replying to ads?]


Us: CaptainU, a 1 year old college sports recruiting app with real revenue, growth and enthusiastic, dedicated leadership.

We’re growing quickly and hiring our first full time developer who will work directly with our cto.

You: This is a great opportunity for a committed developer to learn and work with a growing, Rails based startup.

Location: You would work with us at our office at the Booth business school in Hyde park at the University of Chicago.

Time: 40+ hours/ week

Role:
Fix bugs
Basic rails app maintenance tasks
Ubuntu sysadmin stuff
Develop features
Scale app

Our Stack:
Slicehost
Ubuntu
Mysql
Rails
Tons of Cucumber tests
Pivotal tracker
Hoptoad
Paper and pencil
Lean startup methods

Salary Depends on exp


How to apply...

Please send an e-mail to mischa@captainu.com with:

1) Your Github URL

2) An answer to any rubyquiz question, with tests (ideally in cucumber)

3) Briefly describe a coding challenge that you have solved on your own that required a ton of perseverance, code reading, debugging and googling. What was the problem, why was it hard for you and how did you solve it.

4) What are your salary expectations and why.

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