Candidates with valid work visa residing in Australia only respond.

• Contract start 05 February 2024 to 5 months, 6 months extensions.
• Eligible to work in Australia, Canberra, Offsite role.

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The Ruby Developer will work with the team to extend an existing Rails application to support entry and updating of additional data types.

We are looking for an experienced Rails/Ruby developer with excellent team work skills, to work full/part (0.6 FTE minimum), onsite at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (Canberra), online/remote, or hybrid.

A knowledge of, or interest in, names and taxonomy of living things would be an advantage but we are keen to hear from candidates who have the ability to listen and respond intelligently to requirements regardless of prior experience in the domain.

a. Resourcing requirements

The appointed Rails Developer will supply their own workstation/laptop.

The appointed Rails Developer will supply their own development environment software which must integrate with current NSL practises.

b. Experience

Suitable candidates will have demonstrated experience with one or more similar projects. Responses must provide a summary of at least one previous project describing the project objective, developers role, and the quality of the result, and provide links to the project results (i.e. website) and, if possible, to a code repository with examples.

Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission.

Essential Criteria Weighting

1. Demonstrated prior experience developing high quality online interfaces for data entry and update using the Rails framework.

30%

2. Excellent technical skills including some or all of: Rails, Ruby, Postgresql, JQuery, Bootstrap, Minitest, Git, AWS hosting, Jenkins.

50%

3. Ability to work productively in a small team environment. Willing to explain, listen and discuss code and tasks. Effective written and verbal communication skills.

20%

Desirable Criteria

1. Experience or interest in working with biological taxonomy data including names published in accordance with the provisions of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (ICN) and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) would be an advantage.

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