Sr. software engineer ruby on rails

Sphere Consulting is looking for an exceptional Sr. Software Engineer Ruby on Rails to join our fast growing development team in Kharkov. Qualifications (several are desirable, NOT all are required)

Knowledge:
- Experience developing web applications and understanding of the underlying technologies
- Experience with Ruby on Rails stack or Java
- Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScriptAJAX
- Extensive experience with relational data modeling, SQL, and other database technologies
- Experience with web services
General:
- Exceptional problem solving skills
- Good English
- Good writing skills

BackgroundSoftware Engineering:
- Computer Science or related degree
- Expert knowledge and extensive experience with Java or C and C
- Mastery of some number of interesting languages (e.g. Lisp, Smalltalk, OCaml, Haskell, Perl, Python, Ruby)
- Commitment to creating modular, loosely coupled designs and writing easily understandable, documented, maintainable code
- Affinity for automated test coverage, unit testing, test-driven development, refactoring
- Experience with concurrency and distributed computing
- Experience with regular expressions
- We don't necessarily expect prior Rails experience, but we want to see an impressive software development background, strong motivation and the desire to learn.
- We consider specific prior knowledge and skills secondary to the ability to get things done, intelligence, motivation and experience.

The ideal candidate will be a generalist, with experience developing both large systems and application software. Experience with UNIX is a big plus.
Experience with web applications and databases is extremely helpful. Ruby on Rails experience would be great.


We offer a very competitive compensation package based on your work experience.

Confidentiality is guaranteed.
Thank you.