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We need a Ruby developer to join our team and help us build well thought-out, highly usable web sites and web applications for our clients. You're looking for a satisfying work environment, good colleagues, and a challenging job that doesn't ask you to spend every waking minute working or on call. If we're both lucky, we'll be a perfect fit for each other.

You: A web developer with Ruby on Rails experience, and a good grasp of common web technologies.



To be a good fit for this position, you'll need to be well versed in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. You'll be working with frontend and backend developers on our team to build and improve Rails applications for our clients. We're looking for people who not only understand Rails, but understand how to do things outside of Rails. We love Rails, but it's not the right tool for every project, and the backend landscape is changing. We're increasingly turning toward GraphQL backends (in place of REST) on projects in Rails and in Node, and we're looking for someone who's eager to try new things and push the boundaries of what's possible in Rails. You should be comfortable using RSpec and working on a small team in an agile environment. You'll be working on a variety of projects including grant-funded open source projects, big data enterprise projects, internal government applications, and various web applications for academic and arts-related clients. We generally envision this position as a mid-level to senior position, but are willing to mentor the right junior candidate.

Cast Iron: A Smart, Reliable, No-nonsense development team.

Cast Iron Coding is a web development studio. We build thingsCMS driven websites, small brochure sites, large open-source applications, internal business web applications, backend APIsfor our clients. We take on a wide variety of projects, some more challenging, some less so. While we regularly use a variety of frontend and backend languages and technologies, all of our projects are built on the core web technologies of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Consequently, most, but not all, of our projects run in a browser.

Unlike many firms that turn jobs around quickly and move on to the next project, we're in it for the long haul with all our clients, so we care a great deal about the craft that goes into what we build. We've been building web sites, web apps, and mobile apps since about 2004, for a wide variety of clients.

If you took a snapshot of what we're working on right now, you'd see a company willing to take on a variety of different kinds of projects, including:

We've just wrapped up two museum websitesone for a museum in California, and one for a museum in Florida.

We're building an open source, academic publishing platform called Manifold under a Mellon Foundation grant.

We're building an internal analytics platforms with Node and various AWS services for a global company.

We're continuing to work on an internal identity management and authentication web app for a large audio equipment manufacturer in California.

We're doing a new round of development on a web app that encourages people to change their behavior so that it's more eco-friendly and sustainable.

We're about to start in on a new round of development for a Rails/Backbone assessment application we built for a large urban university system.

One of the true pleasures of working at Cast Iron Coding is that we work on projects that interest us across a wide variety of sectors. We like working with small businesses, academics, nonprofits, and organizations we admire. But we also like sinking our teeth into a thorny, difficult enterprise project where revenue is at stake. We love a big challenge, and problems that make us think hard about what we're building. We've been at this long enough nowabout 15 yearsand we've resisted growing fast or sacrificing quality. Our clients speak highly of us and, perhaps a better metric, our past employees who've moved on to greener pastures still come back to hang out and grab a beer with the team.

Equal Opportunity

Let's face it. The field we work intech generally, programming specificallyhas a diversity problem. Like many in the industry, we'd like to see this change. Cast Iron Coding is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the principle of diversity. As such, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of people.

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