The North
Face. Oakley. Calloway. These are the brands we work on, and live. As a
full-service agency we don’t do anything—we experience everything. From hiking
to golfing to company snow days slopeside, our creatively rich environment is
pure energy for serious developers. Top talent (passionate risk-takers who love
agile development, pair programming, TDD, BDD and the like), grow, learn,
explore, expand and experiment at FDL.

We’re looking for
someone that not only loves Rails, but also has a desire to understand the inner
workings and underpinnings of the framework. Design driven development is what
we aspire to and BDD is our focus. Our projects move at a fast pace, and
Cucumber and Rspec help keep us honest. We work hard but we don’t take
ourselves too seriously, so be prepared to write a lot of code while sipping
whatever is in the keg this week.

 

Position Summary

The Lead Application Developer is
responsible for architecture, development, and debugging of new and existing
web applications and services. Primary responsibilities include writing user
stories, specs, and code to implement the requirements for a given application.
Personal responsibility and accountability are a must. Often, working with the
creative team directly will be necessary, so interpersonal communication must
be outstanding.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

·       Follow Factory
development methodologies (a healthy blend of the best the agile world has to
offer)

·       Write
stories and specs

·       Produce
stable, well-architected code

·       Lead
development efforts

·       Occasionally
wrangle some front-end code

·       Mentor
peers

·       Pair-program
when needed

·       Provide
complexity- and time-based estimates for projects

·       Communicate
well with account managers and internal stakeholders

·       Keep up to
date with the latest technologies

·       Some
travel may be required

 

Qualifications:

·       Experience
communicating directly with both internal stakeholders and clients

·       5+ years
of backend web development experience, including database experience

·       2+ years
experience with the Ruby language and the Rails framework, with a mastery of
the Ruby on Rails stack

·       Must have
a strong foundation in OO programming and practices

·       Intermediate-
to expert-level knowledge of web standards, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

·       Experience
in test driven development and agile development processes

·       Experience
with jQuery or similar JS frameworks a plus

·       Familiarity
with version control systems (Git preferred)

·       Experience
in an advertising agency setting a plus