applicant
Senior Ruby Developer
at Philips in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organization Description:
Philips is constantly on the look out for new products, services or offerings that will generate value for Philips by opening up new market spaces. The objective of the Philips Incubators is to identify these opportunities and to build successful new businesses from them. The Philips Incubators assists teams in transforming their projects into a new business, enabling a faster take-up by customers and strategic partners. It also creates an excellent opportunity to establish strategic partnerships with reputable companies in relevant markets and, when desired, attract funding from venture capitalists. The Lifestyle Incubator is, together with the Technology Incubator and the Healthcare Incubator, part of Philips Corporate Technologies.
New Wellness Solutions (NWS) is a venture in the Lifestyle Incubator. Its scope is to change the behavior of people towards a healthier lifestyle. Based on consumer research and on a scientific basis, the first proposition developed by NWS, Directlife, exists of a device enabled assessment, web based interaction and remote personal coaching. The venture is earmarked for transfer to the Consumer Lifestyle sector…
www.philips.com/directlife
Your Responsibilities:
As the new Senior Ruby Developer you will be part of the energetic and motivated DirectLife Software Development team. You will be responsible for the development, maintenance and integration of features of the DirectLife Web Application Software.
Your key activities will be:
- Build, improve and maintain the Directlife Web Application .
- Work closely with Consumer Marketing Management to understand the requirements for the project,
- Make user scenarios, designs and implementation matching these requirements.
- Support Scrum master with effort estimations and planning.
- Transparently report progress and impediments.
- Ensure that deliverables meet quality standards.
Your Profile:
To be successful in this role you will need to have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and over 4 years experience as a Software Engineer. This should be in combination with an expert experience in the Ruby on Rails framework. You are actively monitoring the latest developments in the Ruby community. Merb, Cucumber, Git are all known concepts to you. Also, you will need strong knowledge of front-end development with AJAX, Javascript, CSS, HTML, XML and SOAP.
Furthermore, as a person you would suit this role when you have:
- Experience in client-server development
- A strong teamplayer mentality
- The ability to coach colleagues
- A proven track record of successfully working in software projects
- The ability to work in a highly dynamic start-up environment
Contacts:
Karin Tekin
+31 (0)6-15459596
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