Regence: Ruby on Rails Web Developer

Location: Portland, Oregon
URL: http://www.regence.com/careers

• Be a part of an agile development team working on developing and / or enhancing highly scalable external facing website
• Create bulletproof cross-browser compatible websites working with one or more of these technologies - Ruby on Rails, Groovy, Ajax/ DHTML(XHTML, HTML5, J Query, Java script 1.0 - 1.5, DOM levels 0-2 tools), My Sql, Postgres, Java, and J2EE.
• Under general guidance, design, develop, implement, document and test your changes to existing or new application programs
• Support system and integration testing activities
• Participate in JAD sessions and requirement gathering
• Analyze business needs and translates business requirements to technical designs
• As a part of the technical team, you will need to be comfortable working in a deadline-driven project delivery
• You will be part of a team of professional, dedicated to producing high quality and elegant solutions that meet or exceed the customer's requirement and expectations

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, Engineering or a related field; Appropriate additional experience beyond the minimum required experience may be substituted for education
• A total of 3 plus years relevant experience in a multi-platform environment, including, but not limited to: Application development or database development
• Experience must include significant involvement with Ruby on Rails, Groovy, Ajax/DHTML(XHTML, HTML5, J Query, Java script 1.0 - 1.5, DOM levels 0-2 tools), My Sql, Postgres, Java, and J2EE.
• Knowledge of HTML 5 will be a plus
• Be opinionated and passionate by working across teams to evangelize and support best practices using web standards
• Communicate clearly in a timely manner in both verbal and written communication
• Work independently and with a cross functional team of business and IT to create highly scalable web application
• Knowledge about agile development and project management methodologies
• Take and / or provide direction from others in analyzing and solving program and system issues and problems
• Professional, courteous, creative and possess excellent verbal and written skills
• Technically proficient in core technologies and methodologies used by the team
• Effectively adapt to rapidly changing technologies and methodologies and apply them to technological and / or business needs of limited scope
• Analyze, diagnose and resolve light to medium complex programming problems and system coordination issues
• Ability to work with minimum direction
• Ability to adhere to IT policies, procedures; those include, but are not limited to: technical and architecture standards, software development standards, production implementation standards, regular status reporting, regular participation in team meetings, regular one on one meetings with supervisor and team lead, and providing work estimates and regular time tracking

To apply: http://www.regence.com/careers

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