You:
* Programmer * Loves to code - Creating and building stuff excites you * Knows OO Uncle Bob's SOLID, you also understand the principles of design patterns rather than knowing rubber stamped templates * Appreciate elegance, to include Kent Beck's rules of simple design * Works efficiently and effectively, striving to always get better and lean * Team player * Has fun, is fun * Polyglot - you use the right language for the job, but loves Ruby * Web programming, but it's not all you've done or will do * Have ideas, willing to pitch and see them come to fruition
Us:
* Hedgeye Risk Management is a premier online financial media company and a leading independent provider of real-time investment research. The Hedgeye team features some of the world’s most regarded research analysts – united around a vision of independent, un-compromised real- time investment research as a service. Our research teams have buy- side experience, which adds uniqueness in our approach to delivering value-added research, insights and ideas to our clients * Startup that actually makes money, with revenues increasing many fold each year since inception in the last 3 years * Our web application is the distribution part of our business, not the only part of the business * Do Agile development with a small team, with company buy in * Developer and Business work together directly * Engineering offices in New Haven, CT and Dana Point, CA (This posting for the New Haven, CT office)
Things that excite you
* Agile - the more eXtreme the better * Lean Startup/UX - let's build the right stuff and not waste time doing it * Web development, esp. Ruby on Rails, but keep an eye for what's going on, Sinatra, Seaside, Wicket, Django all have good things about them * TDD/BDD - nuff said, you believe this to be the most effective way to develop * Refactoring - without quality, code is nothing * Pair Programming - quality, sharing, synergy are important to you * Exploring new tech - you know that somewhere someone's writing the new hotness and you'd like to be in on it
Skills you have
* Ruby - this is what we code most of our stuff in * Javascript and Javascript frameworks - coz there's always code in the browser * TDD/BDD - this is how we work * Rspec, Cucumber - these are our main automated testing frameworks * Distributed version control * *nix savvy - we develop on OSX, deploy to linux * Verbal/written communication skills - everyone asks for these, we'll be lemmings on this one
Bonus points
* scaled a web application - the bigger the better * security - extra points here * an eye for design/UX * active github account
Perks:
Paid Conferences Cool offices Apple hardware 401K Medical, Dental, Vision (97.5% paid by employer) Flex schedule
Do we have a match?
Salary commensurate with ability
To Apply: * Please send resume and cover letter to HR@Hedgeye.com * Follow the directions on https://github.com/hedgeyedev/Developer-Applicant-Exercise
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