Position: Ruby Developer
Location :Minneapolis,MN
Duration: 12 months

Business Overview:
We are a highly collaborative team of engineers, builders and problem solvers that share an open lab environment. We get excited about mobile apps, retail, innovation, hackathons and collaborative work styles.
Position Overview:
Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for:
Specific tasks will vary, but mainly it's writing code for a variety of changes to an existing application for our open APIs.
Skills Overview:
Requirements:
At least five years of relevant systems software engineering experience and a BS/MS in computer science or engineering (or equivalent professional experience).
Experience building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience with large database driven applications and/or distributed computing
Aggressive Refactoring
API Design Experience
Experience with web development, REST, HTTP, Java, Ruby, Data, NoSQL, XML, json
Experience with TDD, Agile, Paired Programming
Knowledge and working experience of open source software (e.g. Apache, Tomcat, MongoDB, Memcache, etc.)
Experience in configuring new services using HA Proxy and Apache.
Experience working with Linux.
Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Hadoop, etc.)
Nice to Have:
Any level of experience as a MYSQL DBA and/or NoSQL is a plus
Experience with SOLR.
Experience with API gateway platforms (e.g. Apigee, Mashery, etc.)
Knowledge of modern Deployment and Configuration Management tools such as Opscode Chef
Ability and aptitude to dig into and solve challenging problems and proactively avoid problems
Scripting, automation and troubleshooting of processes and systems; scripting in the shell and at least one of the following: Groovy, Ruby, Perl or Python
Networks, security, firewalls, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components
Key Skills: