Here at TechCrunch HQ, we’re looking to add a couple fellow Rubyists to help us build out CrunchBase, our pride and joy. Being a TechCrunch developer is a pretty sweet gig: we work on a technically interesting, growing structured wiki, attend a lot of startup events (including our own), and get to meet and partner with cool companies within the startup ecosystem. We also work with great tools (Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Git, etc).
So check out our official job description below and apply by emailing Gené if you’re interested in joining our small team.
Want to work for TechCrunch?Founded on June 11, 2005, TechCrunch, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. Today TechCrunch is the most popular technology weblog on the Internet and is ranked #2 on the Technorati 100.
TechCrunch is building a small but intense team of web developers to work on CrunchBase, our online database of startup, investor and entrepreneur information. CrunchBase attempts to structure the world of tech companies; it aggregates funding, acquisitions, products, people, investors, and offices via mashups and user-submitted data. We’re all about opening up our data as much as possible; we recently launched an API that’s taking off and gives developers easy integration and complete access to CrunchBase. Since its inception, CrunchBase has grown into one of the largest structured wiki deployments on the net (and unofficially one of the top 50 trafficked Rails sites).
What’s it like working for TechCrunch?
TechCrunch is very much a startup. The culture is fast paced and dynamic with a significant amount of exposure to other startups in the technology industry. We throw big events including movie screenings, our annual August Capital party, and TechCrunch50.
As for development, we work with Ruby and we work with Rails. We use TextMate, rSpec, Capistrano, Git, GitHub, Lighthouse and we practice ‘agile web development’. We eat DRY code for breakfast, write specs in the afternoon, and deploy new stuff at night.
only ruby is needed?
Hey Sean –
We’re trying to attract the biggest net of coders possible. If you’ve have 6-12 months of Ruby experience, we’re interested.
wat are the requirements?
Are Fresher’s Welcomed ??
Emily- Good reading and writing skills and 6+ months of Ruby/Rails experience.
i did this in Rails + sqlite + Amazon AWS +PHP
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lol @ the “Good reading and writing skills” response, Rob. that was cold blooded.
I am an Indian working on Ruby on Rails here in India. Have about 10 months of experience. Could I apply?
what is the pay range?
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I have well over 2 years experience with ruby on rails but TechCrunch would properly never employ me
I am not a developer, but I love this site! If you have BA/PM/Sales, I am in!
i hear on gma that i coud get a job paying 12 to 14 dollars per hr. could you company get bnack to me thany you cindy.
i love your blog… its my daily dose of updates, If you need a Business Analyst/Project Manager then m IN.
I heard you are hiring.
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