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Revolution Careers (www.revolutioncareers.com) is looking for a software developer to join our team on-site. You'll be developing web applications in Ruby on Rails, AJAX, JavaScript, and MySQL in an agile development environment.

We're looking for smart people who can learn quickly, love technology, and want to build innovative web applications. Prior experience in Ruby or Rails is not required but you must have experience developing in an OO language and the ability to learn new languages quickly. You should also be looking forward to developing in Ruby on Rails!

Revolution Careers is taking a different approach to helping job seekers and employers with the online recruiting process. We’re a financially backed start-up, located in beautiful Santa Monica.

Required skills:

• At least 2 years of professional development experience in any OO language
• Experience working with the MVC design pattern
• Experience with JavaScript, AJAX, SQL, and database design
• Ability to become proficient in new languages quickly and read and understand other people's code

Pluses:

• Ruby, Rails, jQuery, MySQL, UNIX, git, CSS
• Experience in an agile development environment

Compensation:

• Competitive salary, equity, health benefits, 401k

To Apply:
Please submit your resume to us through: http://rc.revolutioncareers.com/9/jobs
In your cover letter, tell us why you’re excited about joining a start-up and the prospect of working in Rails.