sugru is a disruptive new consumer technology - a self-setting rubber for anyone who wants to improve and fix their stuff.

The future needs fixing.

That’s why sugru exists. It’s not about “making do” — it’s more than that. It’s about repairing, modifying and evolving the products we own so that they work better for us. It’s economical and sustainable, but most of all, it just makes sense.

Two years of phenomenal success and steady growth online has been achieved through community building and content marketing. From an initial sell out batch of 1000 units 2 years ago, there are how 155,000 people in 119 countries using sugru to help them fix and improve their stuff. The brand is well loved by a very loyal following, and has been lauded by all the cool media people including Wired, Forbes, The Economist and TIME Magazine, who named sugru ahead of the iPad as one of the top 50 Inventions of 2010. Now we are ready to reach beyond our core customers, and really help get the world fixing again.

This is why we need you.

The Role

To support the company with the management and development of our e-commerce website.

We’re growing quickly and have plans to expand internationally so this role, for the right person, could become a key part of our future planning.

Aside from being a great developer, you should be comfortable in a fast paced, friendly environment and like dealing with end users and customers. You should be experienced in making decisions and guiding us in the right direction with our e-commerce platform.

We are looking for a Senior Ruby Developer to join our exciting East London offices. This is a tremendous opportunity to join a high profile business with an awesome team that is making some major waves.

The right candidate will join our team based in Hackney, and will be instrumental in architecting, designing, building, and scaling the technology platform.

You will be working as part of a small  but growing team. We place a high value on clean, maintainable, and well-designed code, all with a healthy dose of pragmatism. We are looking for a passionate and highly motivated developer who shares our values.

Required Skills

●  2 or more years’ experience developing commercial Ruby on Rails applications, ideally e-commerce based systems

●  Thorough understanding of SQL and familiarity with PostgreSQL

●  2 or more years’ experience developing with HTML / CSS / jQuery, ideally using HAML, SASS and Coffeescript

●  Knowledge of Git (source control)

●  Deep appreciation of usability

●  Experience of building responsive / mobile optimised websites

●  Expert knowledge of OO design, Design patterns, and Refactoring

●  Test driven development

●  Web servers - Nginx,

●  Databases – SQL and NoSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Memcached, Redis

●  OS – Mac, Linux

●  API development – REST, JSON, OAuth

●  Testing frameworks - RSpec

●  Other relevant technologies in the Ruby ecosystem

●  Self-starter able to propose and execute complex software development initiatives

●  Passion for new technologies, self-directed learning, and ability to share and introduce new ideas into a team environment

●  Expertise in application troubleshooting, debugging, and performance evaluation and tuning

Candidate Requirements

●  5+ years software development experience

●  3+ years Ruby development experience

●  Previous experience in a technical leadership role a plus

●  Experience building and scaling large internet applications

●  Active participation in the Ruby and open source communities

●  Expert knowledge of OO design, Design Patterns, and Refactoring

●  Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Linux,, Nginx, SQL, MySQL, Postgres, XML, JSON, D/HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, JQuery, HAML, SASS, Memcached, Redis,  RSpec and other cool technologies in the Ruby ecosystem

●  Self-starter able to propose and execute complex software development initiatives

●  Active participation in the Ruby and open source communities

●  Passion for new technologies, self-directed learning, and ability to share and introduce new ideas into a team environment

●  Expertise in application troubleshooting, debugging, and performance evaluation and tuning

Would be a plus

●  Experience of payment gateways

●  Comfortable deploying to and working on Linux (Ubuntu)

●  Experience of Amazon's cloud platform

The role is based at our Hackney offices and will report to the Business Manager.  FormFormForm Ltd has plans to expand internationally in 2013; for the right person this role could become key to that expansion.