We're going to hire.
Posted by rick Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:08:00 GMT
Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve given an update (we just cleared milestone08, fwiw, and I hope to have more for you shortly)—we’ve been making good progress, are having visitors from outside over the next couple of days, have had our heads down working hard, and are preparing for some internal presentations on our progress.
We recently had a big hiccup though. Just as we were working on hiring a new person to help out on the development team, our technical lead got a big offer out of the blue from a company in the, shall we say, financial realm. A bigger offer than we, as a non-profit (granted, a big non-profit but a non-profit nonetheless) can hope to match. So, long story short, we’re losing a real quality employee and member of our team. We wish him and his family the best and are excited for him in his new opportunity. Still, we’ve got a job to do, and we wish we could keep him.
But, we lower our heads and keep on keeping on.
So, now, in addition to needing to fill one highly qualified slot that we were going to expand with, we need to backfill another highly qualified slot to keep our momentum.
So, we’re looking. We’re looking for Good People… like the ones we already have (I wish we could clone them, but alas, we don’t have the requisite growth chambers installed yet…). Ruby experience is required, pretty much as is familiarity with Rails. We need people who can think in terms of architecture and domain models, can sit down and talk to users about how the system we’re building will work for them. We need people who like to work in a team, who aren’t afraid of unit tests and functional tests, who have a good sense of humor, who are excited about building awesome software, and who don’t break the build too often.
We’re working with cool tech, with slick processes, on a big project for a good cause. When we roll out the software we will just be beginning the process of improving the way we help people. Along the way everyone will learn a lot.
We’re in Nashville, TN. We can get some help from developers who aren’t in Nashville, but the real leverage comes from people who can be here to draw on the whiteboard with our developers, to point to code on the screen, to read the body language of the customer as he explains his job.
If you’re intrigued by the possibility of doing Ruby on Rails work in a cool town on a great project for a good cause (oh, yeah, for good money), then drop me a line.
Email me at rewritework at rickbradley.com.
