Some Halloween artistry thanks to Pete and his dad’s garden grown pumpkin.

Job: Ruby on Rails Developer

Boomkat.com is seeking Ruby / Rails developers to take it’s existing site + 14tracks.com to the next level!

The role calls for a team player with good customer facing and communication skills, a willingness to learn new methods and technologies. You’ll ideally have a consulting / software development background and will be able to demonstrate your competencies using a portfolio of sites you have been involved in designing and building. You’ll have developed content-management systems and designed applications for production-strength architectures. You’ll understand how to optimise relational databases and write fast queries.

You’ll be happy working within a small team of capable and enthusiastic developers with practical processes and to high standards. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and a desire to maintain exemplary output. You’ll be experienced in taking ownership and responsibility for functional sections from conception through design to implementation and support. You will also receive training as necessary to develop your technical skills further. The successful candidate will join a committed and friendly team.

Essential skill set:

* 3+ years OO programming experience.

* Strong knowledge of Ruby and Rails

* Solid understanding of MySQL

* Standards based Javascript & CSS Helpful skill set

* Python experience a plus.

* Server maintenance / Shell scripting

* AJAX (if you are going to play this card you must have excellent javascript skills, not just Prototype/jQuery)

* Enterprise development experience a plus! Key Responsibilities

* Carry out requirements analysis and system design with full responsibility or as part of the team

* Manage time and plan work to ensure quality output on time and budget

* Produce code to standards ensuring it is high quality, maintainable and fully tested

* Experience of TDD/BDD practices

* Ensure projects are documented in a manner that will ease future system and code upgrades

Duration: 3 month trial period with a view for full time employment.

Location: You’ll be working with Rumble, we are based in Notting Hill, London.

Salary: Negotiable

Applicants are required to send the following:

* CV

* URLs exemplifying your work.

* Give three web based examples of your favoured web applications (these can be your own work and/or other websites you consider to be of merit).

Please send CV and application for the attention of Guy using our contact form 

We would like to welcome Alexis Deforges to the team. Alex is joining us in his capacity to open up new business forays into the French market. Alex comes from a strong Marketing background specialising in the active youth market. We have been working together to assemble a media pack that will be used to introduce Rumble’s Digital Marketing Services into the French market. This will be Rumble’s first ever dedicated approach made into France and we hope that our London based media perspective and a little bit of some Je ne sais quoi will wash off favorably on our counterparts across the channel.

Bienvenue Alexis!

Vive la France.

In my laziness I have only just downloaded photos taken over the Easter break. This is our attempt at colouring some Easter eggs - an old Italian tradition.