Ruby on Rails UI Developer

Job Description

Spectra Logic is a data storage company who specializes in innovating storage technology. We are quickly growing and need qualified software engineers to help further our success!

You will be a part of a new team focused on creating our next generation storage product. Your role on this team will be to design and develop the user interface from the ground up for a flash storage product. This is a highly visible position and your creative work will directly impact the success of the company!

Why Spectra Logic? Enjoy both company-wide and Engineering-centric outings (baseball games, retreats, BBQ’s, etc...). We have an on campus gym facility and offer free fitness classes with our own trainer; and we are close to great running/biking trails! Additional awesome perks include a full cafeteria with subsidized lunches, bi-weekly lunch-and-learns, stocked snack kitchen, foosball, pinball, horseshoes, and volleyball.

Spectra encourages educational enhancement, whether you want to learn a new programming language, enhance your current skill set, or venture into electrical/hardware engineering design methodologies. Your career development is important to us and we want it to be important to you. We are constantly striving to improve the quality of our projects, our processes, and our engineers. We offer tuition reimbursement to encourage furthering your education!

For this position we are seeking Junior and Mid-level Software Engineers (5-10 years experience).

What you will be doing:

-Working closely with a small highly skilled team not only on the GUI but also learning and contributing to all aspects of the product. This is a rare opportunity to participate in a grounds-up design. The environment can best be described as a start-up inside an established company.

-Defining the GUI by working with the product owner, conducting user interviews, and studying precedent from related and competing products. Our expectation is that the GUI will provide us competitive differentiation.

-Building the GUI and REST web services using modern techniques. We're using Ruby on Rails, so you need to know that coming in.

-Working with the rest of the team to integrate with and manage systems-level stuff ranging from networking to advanced storage topologies.

-We strongly believe in complete test coverage prior to integration.This will require you to develop fully-automated unit and system-level tests and partner with our test team on the development of automated tests using tools such as Selenium.

How do you qualify for this opportunity? You will have the following:

-Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering.

-Ruby on Rails: Demonstrated experience creating web applications. Solid Ruby experience needed, e.g. ability to create complex command-line tools and libraries.

-HTML, CSS: design skills for creating visually attractive web pages.

-JavaScript, CoffeeScript, AJAX: Some chops with making pages interactive.

-Human factors, user experience, UX testing experience is a plus.

-Creating Ruby extensions in C: They'll need to interface the GUI with C libraries.

-Experience with Nagios, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies used to automate system management and monitoring.

-Portfolio of web sites and/or design work to show off is a huge plus!

-Agile and Scrum experience – or just play nice with others. We are an Agile shop and work in Scrum teams so if you are not a team player, you are not a fit for us!

Status: Full Time, Direct Hire Exempt Position

Position Location: Boulder, CO. Relocation assistance offered if necessary

Benefits: Spectra Logic offers a casual work environment, competitive salaries, and a compensation structure that rewards contribution and hard work. Our full benefits package includes 401(k), medical,life, AD&D, flex spending accounts, and company paid short and long term disability.

Apply directly at spectralogic.com/careers

Or email your resume and some interesting information about yourself to:

kristieh@spectralogic.com

Ruby on Rails

UI development

JavaScript

CSS

AJAX

UI/UX Development

In 1979, Nathan Thompson, an engineering undergraduate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, gathered his last $500 to launch a business buying and reselling used computer equipment. Today, Spectra Logic remains a privately held Corporation and is known as the leading innovative provider of backup and archive products. Throughout our history, the core of our success is our highly dedicated and talented team of associates that thrive in a stable yet challenging, innovative and growing job environment.

Spectra Logic has a wide range of career opportunities available. We are seeking motivated people who are driven to succeed. If you are a team player who wants to work with and learn from the best, explore our listings for the perfect career.