Rails Job

Software Engineer (Online Video)

Posted 6 months ago at 04 January 2010

Description:

We are a passionate web startup company located in the Hong Kong Science Park. You’ll be contributing to our video transcoding web service, Ankoder, using ruby on rails and Amazon S3, EC2. We’re moving fast, building valuable apps, and we’re planning big things. We’re looking for awesome software engineers to join our team.

Our engineering team is energetic, collaborative, smart, and gets things done. We develop primarily using Mac and Linux. We have a professional working environment that is also fun and friendly.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to design of the architecture and the development of the products and services for our new digital media solution.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance applications and services.
• Invent novel solutions to challenging problems.
• Establish engineering best practices such as code reviews, design guidelines, and check-in policies.
• Improve performance, scalability, and availability of our internal systems.
• Create tools and processes to increase the productivity of all your co-workers.
• Diagnose and debug issues in a production environment.

Required skills:

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years demonstrated coding skills in Ruby, Java or other related programming languages.
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience building data-driven services and applications.
• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Linux and open source technologies is highly desirable.
• Independent, energetic, highly technical, and capable of driving for results under pressure and ambiguity.
• Experience building web-based applications is a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Chinese Mandarin proficiency is required.