# \[rails-oceania\] \[Job\] Senior Developer - Adelaide, Australia

**URL:** <https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/rails-oceania-job-senior-developer-adelaide-australia/490>\
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**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/rails-oceania-job-senior-developer-adelaide-australia/490 "2018-03-14T14:58:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![melissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@melissa](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/melissa)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/rails-oceania-job-senior-developer-adelaide-australia/490/1 "2018-03-14T14:58:00Z")

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DESCRIPTION

We’re Australia’s largest online art marketplace with a mission to help  
Australian artist’s sell more art to collectors. This is a fantastic  
opportunity for an experienced RoR developer to build out the best art  
marketplace, and make a real impact on the 8,000+ artists who rely on us to  
help sell their art.

We’re a venture backed start-up and the now the largest art marketplace in  
Australia. We won South Start 2016, best Retail App 2015 at Australian App  
awards, Australia’s best creative startup in 2015 and generally aim to  
build awesome tools for our community of artists and art collectors. We’re  
also trying to help Australia’s remote and Indigenous artists with our new  
set of tools for art centres: [https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-)  
business/2…  
[https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsustainable-business%2F2017%2Fmay%2F22%2Fethical-art-how-online-entrepreneurs-are-selling-indigenous-artists-to-the-world](https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsustainable-business%2F2017%2Fmay%2F22%2Fethical-art-how-online-entrepreneurs-are-selling-indigenous-artists-to-the-world)

We’re a small team of 14 distributed across Adelaide, Melbourne and abroad.  
We pride ourselves on our workplace culture as friendly, team orientated  
and focused on building the best technology for connecting artists and art  
collectors.  
REQUIREMENTS

_What the role will focus on_

- Full stack Ruby on Rails development of new features Bluethumb
- JSON API improvements and development for our iOS and Android apps
- Code reviews of our other developers commits, and suggesting  
improvements
- UI implementation of new features
- Bug fixing and Support
- Mentorship of junior developers

_What you will bring to the role_

- 5+ years’ experience in Full-Stack Ruby on Rails development
- Passion for excellent UX for all things web and mobile
- Experience using Git version control
- Great communication (we use Github, Slack and Trello)
- Friendly, with an interest in the latest tech, and a passion for  
learning

_Desirable but not essential_

- Start up experience in any capacity
- Experience with online marketplaces or e-commerce

BENEFITS

_Why Join Bluethumb_

- We’re on a mission to help artists become career artists.
- This is a leadership position with autonomy to set the direction of  
what is built across whole platform.
- We’ve growing at 250% annually so it’s a unique chance to get real  
experience in a fast growing start up.
- Work on cool projects this year including; Machine Learning and Data  
Visualisation.
- A friendly, supportive team across SA and Victoria.
- Work with one Australia’s top UX/Product Leads.

_The Nuts and Bolts_

Location: Majoran, Adelaide

Role: Full time

Remuneration: Pay based on experience

Bring: Your own Laptop