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On behalf of employer: Stardotstar


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Permanent position
Salary: negotiable

Stardotstar create some of the most creative digital content and platforms in the region, from 3 times BIMA award winning e-learning to augmented reality audioscapes... (coming soon!)

We've been using Rails professionally for over 2 years now and are currently recruiting a permanent RoR technical lead to run a number of medium to large sized projects with budgets from £50-100k:

* Educational social software platform
* Global brand management platform for one of Europe's largest investment banks
* StardotSite - the sexiest CMS on the planet (no really, it is!)

Essential skills:
* proven professional experience in one of the following languages/
platforms: Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, .Net, JSP
* proven ability for creating large, scalable, reliable platforms (ideally in RoR)
* flexible skill set (able and happy to turn hand to ActionScript, Air, server set-up, clean accessible CSS etc, as projects demand)

Essential attributes:
* enthusiasm for technology, ideas and creativity
* ability to make the complicated simple
* exceptional quality of work
* pride in your work
* attention to detail
* creative problem solver
* good time estimates and ability to hit deadlines
* desire to learn
* desire to share
* design literate (don't need to be a designer, but able to to follow a design)

If you would like to join us, send an email to recruit(at)stardotstar.com with the subject 'Web Developer'. Tell us about yourself, your salary expectations and why you'd fit in well at Stardotstar.

We look forward to hearing from you :-)

No agencies please (yes, yes yes, I know that you are different to the other recruitment agents, and you really do understand our business, and that you have some really excellent candidates and that you can negotiate fees – it’s nothing personal, but we don’t use recruitment agents... )

Location: Greater Manchester, Northern Quarter

Author: Gareth from Stardotstar

Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:41:43 PDT

Category: Development

Tags: css, ruby, ajax, rails, cms and ror

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