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ideeli is a huge cloud shop located in NYC (SoHo) with Ruby on Rails / MySQL on a Linux / Amazon EC2 / S3 platform.

We need smart, innovative creative thinkers to help us solve complex challenges associated with building robust, fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable systems.

Here is why

• Our site exceeds one thousand (1,000) hits / sec at peak
• Push a Gigabit / sec bandwidth on a RoR stack
• 100 plus “add to cart” / sec
• Scaled front-end with 3 to 30 AWS instances and another 25 in the back-end
• Interactive JavaScript UI and REST API’s
• Over one million emails sent daily
• New memcache techniques
• iPhone / mobile implementation
• 15% of revenue is processed in 5 minutes daily

ideeli.com is an exciting, venture-funded (over $30 million to date) community/commerce startup implemented entirely in Ruby on Rails. We believe in small teams, agile development, quick turnaround, and getting things done. Across the entire company you’ll find we’re exceptionally ambitious and have been so successful that our initial investors have all increased their investment.

Our needs extend to scalability, integrations with mobile phones (WAP, iPhone,etc), integration with accounting/tax systems and other non-HTTP environments, advanced UI, and much more. We are seeking a creative, passionate people who enjoy working hard as part of an effective, small team.

Our user base (currently 2.7 million) continues to grow and we are selling more products to more users, even faster! This demand creates some interesting challenges and therefore we are looking to broaden our team with the additional developers, architects, system engineers and support specialists to help solve these.

Reasons you should join the ideeli team

• You like developing software and seeing it used by hundreds of thousands of people
• You want to see how well your software performs with thousands of simultaneous requests
• You want to do things no one has done before – and do it well
• You crave a fast-paced environment, using agile development methodologies, with very smart people, minimal management overhead, and getting things done

Recent Articles

Ideeli CEO Plans For IPO
http://www.thestreet.com/video/10805559/ideeli-ceo-plans-for-ipo.html#114675485001

We’re looking for someone who loves doing challenging stuff client side. You think it’s cool to take a data feed from the server and dynamically build and rebuild the presentation of that data customized to the user. If you know prototype well, even if you prefer jquery. You can make your code work well on all browsers (and unfortunately, yes, we still mean IE6). You’ve done exciting UI work before. You want millions of people to be using your code. You want to work hard in a fast paced environment with very smart people – we should talk.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with RoR projects/web development on highly stylized sites
• Awesome with DOM, Javascript, HTML, CSS, AJAX
• Ability to work in a small, geographically-distributed team using collaboration tools (Skype, IM, email, mingle)
• Must be detail-oriented and thorough in designing, coding and testing
• Must be able to provide and explain code samples of previous work
• Familiarity with subversion
• Workday overlap with Eastern time zone (UTC-5) and/or GMT
• Test Driven Development
• MySQL Development
• Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
• Experience developing JS/UI tests

Further details at RAILSwork