Job Opportunities at ScholarlyMinds

Web App Whizz

If you are the type who likes challenges, wants to succeed and wants to be part of something great, read on!
We are looking for a Ruby on Rails whizz to further develop our web app ScholarlyMinds.com (aggregator for academically relevant content which recently received endorsement from the European Union). The site exist as a prototype and is live. As ScholalryMinds is all about content, we recently developed a crawler prototype to systematically populate our database, making it a central data resource fron anyone in academia.

What the job entitles:

• * Develop features for the ScholarlyMinds.com web application, turning high level descriptions into things users will love
• * Deliver well-implemented, functional user interfaces
• * Lead back-end development to implement interactive and AJAX-based functionality
• * Increase complexity of content auto-tagging feature to something that is just one step away from saying "hello"
• * Further develop crawler fleet (we have a database of about 50+ target sites, totalling 1M+ data)
• * Introduce moderator features for user-provided content
• * Spice up the web interface
• * Diagnose client-side errors, performance bottlenecks and incompatibilities and implement fixes and optimizations
• * Implement own ideas/modify existing concepts, looks and feels where deemed appropriate

What we offer:

• * Getting in at an early stage of an exciting company
• * You will be in charge of the technical apsects of ScholarlyMinds and we will listen to you!
• * A working prototype/framework for you to start from
• * Work with smart, committed and passionate people who want to make ScholarlyMinds happen!
• * Use the tools you want to get the job done (the current prototype runs on RoR, but if you prefer LAMP and can mange the transfer, that's fine)
• * Competitive salary with early employee stockholding
• * Flexible hours (initially 10-20h per week - ideal for part time student job)
• * Potentially getting involved with Mark Pritchard and Andy Yates (Agile Ventures)

What we are looking for:

• * Agile people that thrive in a startup environment - highly motivated self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision
• * People with a track record of willingness to learn and improve, a 'can do' attitude and don't give up at challenging tasks
• * Experience with PHP and/or server-side templating languages (Smarty, etc)
• * You don't have to be an expert in designing web apps, as long as you can convince us that you can pick it up fast (previous experience is a bonus though)
• * Working knowledge of HTML, CSS and cross-browser support
• * Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails/LAMP, MySQL/PostgreSQL
• * Working knowledge in object-oriented Javascript and frameworks (jQuery, Prototype, etc)
• * Skilled in debugging and problem solving using relevant tools (Firebug, etc)
• * Experienced in the use of appropriate development tools including source code management
• * Great attention to detail!
• * Good technical communication skills

Contact

To apply please contact us at jochen@scholarlyminds.com