[MacRuby-devel] Fwd: Looking for an expert Ruby contractor for Apple DevPubs

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi guys,

The DevPubs team at Apple is looking for a Ruby contractor with potential MacRuby knowledge, so I'm forwarding the notice to the list.

If you're interested or have a recommentation, please contact Matisse Enzer <menzer at apple.com> .

Laurent

Begin forwarded message:
> Hi folks, my group is looking for an expert Ruby engineer for a contract position
> starting ASAP in 2011.
> 
> If you have a recommendation to make please let me know. Please do not re-post this notice without checking with me first to see if it is still current and accurate.
> 
> The project requires extensive (but not 100%) on-site work in
> Cupertino, California.  If an individual is not able to get qualified
> as a vendor or work through an existing vendor then they can be brought
> on as an employee of the staffing company we use (PrO.)
> 
> Length of engagements will start at 6-9 months, with the possibility
> of being extended to a total of 12 months.
> 
> The work is to assist in the creation of a new Content Management
> and Publishing system which must take over from a legacy system
> with no interuption in service.
> 
> The contract engineer will act as a consultant on Ruby Best Practices
> and system design and assist in the modification of legacy systems
> so they may be replaced or encapsulated by new systems.
> 
> The new system being written in Ruby (for the server-side) and uses web
> apps for the client-side. The legacy systems being replaced or
> encapsulated are written primarily in Perl, with some Objective-C, and
> some Ruby.
> 
> Must-Have qualities:
> 
> * Proven ability to consult on and teach Best Practices to other engineers.
>  This requires excellent social skills.
> * Excellent plays-well-with-others skills. No lone-wolf coders.
> * Expert in Ruby
> * Thoroughly familiar with Ruby technologies such as Rails, gems,
>  bundler, and similar technologies.
> * Experience with and enthusiasm for agile development.
> * Advanced skills in automated testing.
> * Enthusiastic about Separation of Concerns as an architectural principle.
> * Experience building web services.
> * Be highly organized, able to analyze competing priorities, and
>  help stakeholders make good decisions to resolve priority conflicts.
> * Extensive experience on two or more *nix systems (Mac OS X, Linux,
>  Solaris, etc.)
> * References
> 
> Nice-to-Have skills and experience:
> * Active participation in one or more Open Source projects with multiple
>  developers.
> * Experience with MacRuby
> * Experience with Aspect Oriented Programming
> * Mac OS X
> * git
> * SVN
> * Object Oriented Perl
> * Real-world experience making changes to legacy code.
> * buildbot
> * Cocoa/Objective-C
> * JavaScript skills, especially Sproutcore
> 
> If you have a recommendation to make please let me know. Please do not re-post this notice without checking with me first to see if it is still current and accurate.
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