You:

* Programmer
* Loves to code. Creating and building stuff excites you
* Knows OO Uncle Bob's SOLID, the principles of design patterns rather than
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, 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:
* We publish the best financial research in the world, including real time
commentary and trading recommendations.
* Startup that actually makes money
* Our web application is the distribution a part of our business, not the only
part of the businessn
* Do Agile development with a small team, with company buy in
* Developer and Business work together directly

Things that excite you

* Agile - the more eXtreme the better
* Web development, esp. Ruby on Rails, the Rails/Merb 3.0 merge excites you
* 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 ought to have
* Ruby - this is what we code most of our stuff in
* TDD/BDD - this is how we work
* Rspec, Cucumber - these are our main automated testing frameworks
* *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

Do we have a match?

Attention Jr. programmers. If you don't match this yet but aspire to such, we
may have an opening for you!

Salary Commensurate with Ability

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