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 | We are looking for a Director of Development who can drive projects and provide leadership for our RoR engineers.
This position will lead an advanced Ruby team utilizing agile/scrum development processes. This is a fast, open environment where innovation and participation are highly encouraged. This position requires strong leadership and technical skills, as well as the ability to understand business goals and work in tandem with senior level business executives. About ideeli ideeli is a huge cloud shop located in NYC (SoHo) with Ruby on Rails / MySQL on a Linux / Amazon EC2 / S3 platform. We need smart, innovative creative thinkers to help us solve complex challenges associated with building robust, fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable systems. Here is why * Our site exceeds one thousand (1,000) hits / sec at peak * Push a Gigabit / sec bandwidth on a RoR stack * 100 plus “add to cart” / sec * Scaled front-end with 3 to 30 AWS instances and another 25 in the back-end * Interactive JavaScript UI and REST API’s * Over one million emails sent daily * New memcache techniques * iPhone / mobile implementation * 15% of revenue is processed in 5 minutes daily ideeli.com is an exciting, venture-funded (over $30 million to date) community/commerce startup implemented entirely in Ruby on Rails. We believe in small teams, agile development, quick turnaround, and getting things done. Across the entire company you'll find we're exceptionally ambitious and have been so successful that our initial investors have all increased their investment. Our needs extend to scalability, integrations with mobile phones (WAP, iPhone,etc), integration with accounting/tax systems and other non-HTTP environments, advanced UI, and much more. |
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