Since 2001, The Go Game has grown to be the leader of Urban Gaming and Corporate Team Building. Based in the Mission District of San Francisco, we have run more than 3000 games worldwide and maintain satellite offices in Los Angeles, Austin, Orlando, New York, Toronto and the UK. We pride ourselves on our unique ability to make everything fun, through creativity and technology. Our customers include pretty much every fortune 500 company from Verizon to Google, Genentech to KPMG.
We are in search of a highly self-motivated, driven individual with experience in designing, building and maintaining Rich Internet Applications to join our team. You will be working on our latest top-secret offering designed to engender corporate culture across the world. The framework for this application has already been developed in Ruby on Rails and we are looking for someone to continue with the development as we move into an Alpha launch with our test partners.
Our ideal candidate:
* 2-5 Years of Experience
* Web bases programming experience – Java, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, AJAX
* Database Background: SQL Server,
* Data Migration / Data Quality – D&B or Demand Tools
Technical/Experience requirements:
* Prior experience working with and excellent understanding of the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern
* Professional development experience with an MVC framework (examples: Ruby on Rails, Struts)
* Experience building (or implementing from specifications) customer- or public-facing web-based user interfaces, with a deep understanding of HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
* Familiarity with the basic concepts of good UI design and ability to advise projects as to good UI design practices
* Familiarity with and some experience using Javascript libraries such as jQuery and Prototype.
* Excellent understanding of object-oriented concepts and design patterns, as well as prior work with OO languages (Java, Ruby, C#, C++, etc)
* Professional experience in a test-driven and formal QA development environment, including development/staging/production (or similar) deployment cycles
* Experience with and knowledge of relational databases, including work with MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or other common RDBMS.
* Knowledge of Agile development practices, particularly sprint planning and assessment
The Go Game – Culture requirements:
* Self-motivated, able to work independently and make educated decisions along the development cycle.
* Understanding of Gaming Culture – we like to make everything into a game and we expect the same of our developers.
* Adaptable to changing requirements, changing schedules
* Ability and desire to participate in project planning and scoping, both in a project kickoff role as well as a pre-sales role
* Ability to communicate project exceptions (e.g. slipping schedules) to project manager
PLEASE SEND RESUME AND A BRIEF ORIGINAL COVER LETTER TO jobs@thegogame.com. PLEASE PUT “Amazing Ruby Developer” IN THE SUBJECT LINE, ALL OTHERS WILL BE IGNORED. Also, please answer this question in your cover letter:
What did you dress up as for Halloween this year?
We offer a terrific compensation package including a competitive base salary plus incentives, full health benefits, dental, and a 401k.
Thanks!
TGG HQ
- Compensation: Commesurate with experience.
- Telecommuting is ok.
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