Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Ruby/Rail Sr Developer role

The Company:
BiddingForGood, the leading online fundraising auction platform is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Developer. We compete in the $16 billion charity auction market with a mission of moving the silent auction online. Currently over 4,000 schools/non-profits, 170,000 consumers, and 60 advertisers use our platform to transact cause-based commerce which has helped raise over $85 million for worthy causes (this March we raised almost $5m). We are backed by tier one VC’s, highly motivated, and enjoy the double bottom line work we do.

The Position: Senior Software Developer
BiddingForGood is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our development team to work on Ruby on Rails projects. You would be a key player in a new Rails-based product as well as assisting to maintain and extend our existing Rails products. Requirements for qualified candidates:

- Ruby/Rails

- Cucumber

- RSpec (or Shoulda)

- Capistrano

- Web Services (SOAP and REST)

- HTML/XHTML

- CSS

- Javascript (ideally including Prototype.js)

- AJAX



The ideal person will have had some experience with one or more of the following (though not required) - Passenger - Java - Spring - Hibernate - Stripes - JBoss Messaging or ActiveMQ - Oracle



You must have at least 5 years of strong development experience and at least one year of Rails experience.


BiddingForGood is located in Cambridge, Mass. The team is comprised of motivated staff driven to ensure the company’s success and take advantage of the opportunity that a fast moving company creates. Position includes competitive sick/vacation/holiday package, stock options/equity, health insurance, life insurance, LTD, tuition reimbursement, and 401k plan availability. BiddingForGood is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Resumes to psinacole@firstbeacongroup.com

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Candidate tip

When I call you in response to a resume that you have submitted, you should have visited the client's website in advance of our call. I don't want to hear that you didn't have time. I don't want to hear that you have send out 100 resumes to 100 different jobs and you are not sure which one I represent.

Demonstrate that you are serious and interested. Or why should I assume that you are a serious and interested candidate?

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Inside Sales Rep

Inside Sales Rep at BiddingForGood -- 2-3 years of inside sales exp plus college degree. Resumes to me at psinacole@firstbeacongroup.com.

Friday, April 16, 2010

COBRA subsidy has been extended (again!)

COBRA Subsidy Extension

President Obama has approved an additional short-term extension of COBRA health insurance premium subsidies for employees who are terminated involuntarily and who qualify subject to other terms and conditions.

The measure extends the 15-month, 65% federal premium subsidy to employees involuntary terminated from April 1, 2010 through May 31, 2010. The previous short-term extension expired March 31, 2010.

Billing/Collections Spec

Billing/Collections Specialist at BiddingForGood in Cambridge. 2-4 years of related exp in high transaction environment. Cool company!

Friday, April 9, 2010

Coming soon -- new column in the Boston Globe..

Stay tuned for more details -- tentatively scheduled to launch in late April! Exciting stuff!