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Principal Ruby and Junior Ruby on Rails Developers at Abroad101, a MassChallenge Finalist - Boston, MA

Abroad101 is an exciting and fast-growing start-up, co-founded by Tufts, MIT, and Harvard graduates. Abroad101 runs the world’s leading study abroad review website and provides study abroad offices with world-class evaluation software. Since its launch with Tufts in August 2008, Abroad101 has partnered with over 200 academic institutions and has developed paid partnerships with foreign universities and American study abroad program providers. Our website traffic and revenue are growing exponentially. We are currently based at the Masschallenge (55 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210), where we were a 2010 winner, and we will be moving to an office close to the Park St T Station by the end of May. 

With our exponential growth and strong revenue, we seek addition strong technical talent to continue to maintain our competitive edge!

What We Offer:
• Opportunity to make a major contribution to the Abroad101 codebase and Company as a whole
• Greenfield a migration from PHP over to Ruby on Rails for a site with exponential growth in traffic
• Become well-known to the Tripadvisor.com founders who are advisors and investors
• Great benefits and pay
• Great work location easily walkable from red, green, and orange lines on MBTA
• Opportunity to work with:
o Ruby 1.9.2 on Rails 3.2
o Javascript, jQuery, MySQL
o Amazon AWS, Heroku, Github, PivotalTracker
o Resque, Reds, Memcached, Rspec
o HTML5 and CSS3
• Work with a really fun dynamic team!

What We Are Looking For: 
• Strong programming skills – 2 - 4+ years experience
• Web development experience - 2+ years, preferably using Ruby on Rails
• Experience working with Ruby for 1+ year
• Comfort with HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, and basic Clous sys admin functions
• Attitude that you will run through walls when faced with technical challenges
• An understanding that coding is an art, and a strong desire to improve your craft
• Bonus: Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3

US Work Authorization required. Local candidates preferred, but if you want to move to the current web economy boomtown that Boston is, then send us your resume!

Email your resume to marsh@abroad101.com. Every submission will get a reply!


Mid-level Rubyist at B2C Energy web startup - Boston, MA

Walden's client is an energy analytics company with funding, an enthusiastic and growing user base, an environmentally-conscious mission, a solid business plan, and a motivated team. The work environment is fun and flexible, and the product provides ample opportunities to tackle technical challenges, work with the latest and greatest technologies, and stay at the top of your game.

What They Are Looking For:

·  Strong programming skills - 4+ years experience

·  Web development experience - 2+ years, preferably using Ruby on Rails

·  Experience working with Ruby for 1+ year

·  Comfort with HTML, CSS, & JavaScript

·  Enthusiasm to work in a team where you can learn from and teach your peers

·  An understanding that coding is an art, and a strong desire to improve your craft

·  Bonus: Knowledge of front-end design and usability concepts

Candidates must have current U.S. work authorization. No visa sponsorships. Client open to relo package through sign-on bonus.  Please email your resume to jobs@waldenrecruiting.com

Support Specialist at dynamic  hardware & web education startup – Acton, MA

Walden Recruiting’s client is a mature startup that owns their market niche and continues it’s steady annual revenue and headcount growth.

The Support Specialist plays a key role in their dynamic and growing Customer Service team.  Among other duties, the successful candidate will provide first line support for customer issues and questions, performing Tier 1 and Tier 2 hardware and software technical support to customers, salesmen and partners for our hardware and software systems.  This includes, but is not limited to, troubleshooting hardware problems, troubleshooting software problems, installing software remotely, advising customers and installation techs in proper software and hardware installation, etc. 

Qualifications:

• At least three years prior experience installing and supporting software systems

• Demonstrated experience in a Customer Support environment

• Basic SQL skills & database, client server, or distributed application experience including experience supporting SQL database applications

• Ability to work with engineering on bug resolution

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Demonstrated ability to learn and work with new technologies

•  High degree of “urgency” regarding task management

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written form

• BS Degree preferred

Salary in the $40K - $50K range.

Current US work authorization required. No relocation assistance provided. Please email your resume to jobs@waldenrecruiting.com