Very tempting. Unfortunately I'm not what would be considered a Senior Ruby dev - PHP on the other hand... I'm trying to make the switch to Ruby and bring my current employer with me.
Maybe a year from now, this would be perfect. Good luck in your hunt Sean! -- Phil On 21 January 2014 12:33, Sean Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > NHS Choices are looking for experienced Ruby Senior Developers to join > our team. > > > > At NHS choices we use agile/lean software practices to deliver www.nhs.uk , > the largest government website in the UK with over 36 million visitors per > month. > > > > We also deliver some of the main NHS campaign sites > Change4Life<http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/Pages/change-for-life.aspx> > , > BeClearOnCancer<http://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer/Pages/beclearoncancer.aspx> > and Smokefree <http://www.nhs.uk/smokefree> for the Department of Health > and Public Health England. > > You need to have good problem solving skills and be willing to take on > responsibilities to get the job done. Senior Developers will work closely > with other developers, sometimes pair-programming. They will also work > closely with architects, business analysts and product owners from the > business, in order to refine stories for new projects. You should also > have a keen interest in cutting edge internet technology and enjoy keeping > up with the latest technological developments. > > The roles are based in Leeds at our offices close to Leeds train station > but there may be occasional travel to London. > > The roles are permanent and on agenda for change band 8a (£39-47k) with > access to the NHS final salary pension scheme. > > http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/working-in-the-nhs/pay-and- > benefits/agenda-for-change-pay-rates/ > > > > You need to be writing your code in a test-driven manner, and comfortable > in mentoring others in doing so. You’ll be championing good development > practices, such as TDD, BDD, Refactoring, Pair Programming, Continuous > Integration and Deployment, SOLID principles, Design Patterns. > > > For our Ruby developers we would ideally like people who are happy working > in both Rails and non-rails frameworks. Strong SQL experience, as well as > an open-minded attitude to using NoSQL data storage systems, and an > interest in service oriented architectures would be a big plus. We are > looking to build on the existing Ruby skills within our, currently mainly > .Net oriented, team and the successful applicant must be able to mentor > other developers to assist with this cross skilling. > > > > You you can find more information and can apply here: > http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/vacdetails.cgi?selection=913276419 > > > > Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have any questions. > > > We are not able to deal with 3rd parties on these vacancies so please > don’t waste your time or ours. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
