The Ultimate Agile Job


Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

New York City and San Francisco


If you're looking for somewhere to do serious agile development, and serious Rails development, this is the place. We're looking for brilliant Rails developers to join our star team, in both New York and San Francisco. If you want to share your knowledge while learning from others, work sustainably, and work on some serious projects, we think you'll have a blast working with us.

Job Description:

  • Developing Ruby on Rails applications for a variety of leading clients
  • Test Driven Development
  • Pair Programming
  • Aggressive Refactoring
  • Working directly with clients to manage requirements

Additional Skills desired:

  • Experience with testing frameworks from rspec and Test::Unit to Selenium and JsUnit
  • SQL
  • JavaScript, Flash
  • Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical clients


Why join us?

  1. We're agile. That means test-driven development with tools like RSpec, Test::Unit, JUnit, JsUnit and Selenium. It means pair-programming, refactoring, and state-of-the-art continuous integration, build, and deployment infrastructure.
  2. We're fun. Besides daily catered breakfasts and beer nights, what does that mean? It means we've got a real culture. We share it by rotating developers between projects. With us, you may work on five, six, or even more projects in a single year.
  3. We're good, and always improving. We have daily stand-up meetings and regular retrospectives. We figure out what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we're doing right, so we can make it even better. Working here means you get better at what you already do well, every day.

We've got multiple teams of Rails and Java developers working on a variety of products at our labs in downtown San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Denver, and at some well known companies around the Bay Area and beyond. If you're a talented developer who's enthusiastic about agile and interested in a unique and challenging environment, get in touch with us.


Interested? Email jobs@pivotallabs.com. Please specify the title of the position you are applying for. Principals only, please!