looking for a Ruby on Rails developer for 3 months contract

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Hello,

I sincerely hope that it is appropriate to post this on this mailing list. Please see the posting and information on how to apply below.

Gabriela

Position Title: Ruby on Rails developer

Description This position requires the incumbent to work in IT Services at UTL. Working in a small team, under direction of the Director of the Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries, the incumbent will be responsible for adding service features specific to the UofT community to our newest service, Focus, which is an Expert Finder application that supports the promotion of faculty research. Building on the BibApp open-source framework, the incumbent will add features enabling customization of Focus and its integration with other services, including a custom authentication system.

Qualifications Education: University degree in Computer Science or acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience.

Minimum 3 years experience with programming in Ruby on Rails. Solid and demonstrated experience using open-source programming libraries, relational database systems, and the development of database driven websites. Must be highly knowledgeable in Ruby, Ruby Gems, MySQL/SQL, and general application security. Excellent knowledge of open source web-based database-driven application development and Web 2.0 tools. Familiarity is required with LDAP and Pubcookie. Technical writing and documentation skills.

Other: Demonstrated interpersonal skills under pressure. Ability to work within tight timelines. Demonstrated good organizational and time management skills. Strong user-based orientation. Ability to exercise good judgment, discretion and tact. Demonstrated ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team. Ability to communicate effectively and accurately both orally and in writing. Ability to communicate complex technical ideas verbally and in written form to IT staff and management. Demonstrated good work performance and attendance record.

Job Field Information Technology

Campus St. George

Department ITS, University of Toronto Libraries

Schedule Full-time

Pay Scale Group and Hiring Rate Compensation: $28.00 Compensation Type: per Hour Area: Toronto Pmt-time/Full-time: Full-time Position Duration: Temporary - 3 months

Notes Evenings and weekend hours not required.

Applicants will be asked to complete a small test, supply 3 references, code and writing samples.

Applicants Submit: • Resume and covering letter

How to apply: • Email: utlhr@utoronto.ca

Deadline Date: Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

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$28 per hour, really? That’s about how much a decent maid makes…

I seriously hope that no developer is considering this.

Martin

PS: @group - sorry for the rant

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Let us know how it goes. If you can find good Rails devs in Toronto for $28/hr for a three month contract I may have to fly up there from NYC to set up a new office :slight_smile:

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517.gifHurray!!! The recession is finally over.

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Not at $28/hr. :slight_smile:

But it certainly is outside of Toronto. I’ve been to 5 conferences in the last two weeks and in every one, pretty much every deck seemed to end with a “we’re hiring” slide. And most of the positions I was hearing about were safely north of $100k/yr. At least in the major US metro markets . . .

Seriously, this is the best labor market I’ve seen for developers since 1999. It’s nuts.

I’d still like to know what LivingSocial paid for Glenn and the gang at InfoEther . . .

Best Wishes,

Peter

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The whole funding scene is nuts right now, and that trickles down to ruby developers (and wait for the need for coffeescript/node.js developers). It is going to get worse though from a hiring perspective, with the IPOs coming up and even more fresh money available. And yeah, it feels like 1999 again - one hell of a year :stuck_out_tongue:

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@Martin,

Quite! Although I’ve heard some reasoned discussion that it’s more like 1996. Which means there is still a little time to lay up some profits while the money is out there.

This is an amazing time to work at a funded start-up. Good cash comp, interesting work, some upside in the form of options. Just make sure to save a chunk of your salary so when everything finally does implode you’ll be able to ride out the down times.

And there’s an easy way to tell approximately when the good times will end. It will be about six months after your Grandmother sees an infomercial and puts retirement money into a special hedge fund selling derivatives that somehow avoid the sophisticated investor laws but that are backed by a secondary market in non-public stock of tech start ups. Once even your granny (and apologies and exclusions to anyone whose grandma actually is a sophisticated wall street trader) is investing in pre-IPO startup shares, it’s time to tune up your Scala and Clojure skills and take a cushy finance or insurance job for about 6-8 years until the cycle starts again.

Welcome back to 1996. And now to return to our regularly scheduled technical programming :slight_smile:

Best Wishes,

Peter

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You just made my day. You are the second person that I have spoken to this week who believes it is more like 1996, and I definitely hope so. I had a good exit (3 f**ing weeks to late) with my startup during the first wave and we all know the difference between good and great. Really glad that I can experience this all over again. And btw back then I had to fend off angry grannies because I did not let them invest back them (imaging 80 year olds screaming at you, no kidding)

Thanks

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I don't think its 2000 quite yet.. 96 sounds more like it. In 1999 I once got offered a dot com startup job with stock options, great benefits, etc.. sitting in a starbucks, by a stranger who had never seen my work. I was only 17... so that must describe the level of desperation in the marketplace for developers.

I do think we are going to see a new tech bubble.. and it seems like ruby is certainly the right community to get involved in. I am trying to move my company from doing php work to rails work for that very reason.

Like everyone else, I am not sure who would be willing to work at that rate when you can find ruby jobs all over the place offering a great salary.

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Guys,

I created a quora question for this, http://www.quora.com/Is-it-more-like-1995-or-1999

so that we can continue discussing it outside the rails context