Vital Media Network is a small but financially stable and steadily growing company, which is located in southern California. We are engaged in development of the three content sites devoted to action sports: VitalBMX.com, VitalMTB.com and VitalMX.com. We offer employment with convenient work hours, competitive compensation and cool exciting projects (and we have a lot of them) for web sites with high traffic. We are seeking an experienced Ruby on Rails programmer for full-time employment. Requirements: Expert knowledge in Ruby on Rails 2 & 3, Ruby 1.8 & 1.9, MySQL database design, XML-based web services, Nginx + Passenger, HTML, server-side AJAX Ability to optimize both code and database schema for speed Ability to quickly identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks Solid understanding of caching strategies, including Memcached Attention to detail and code clarity Good communication skills Resourceful and able to solve problems independently Pluses: Prior experience with Amazon S3, content delivery networks, Ubuntu Server, Bash scripting, PHP, PHP frameworks, Git Understanding of CSS, Javascript, and Javascript libraries Experience with large or technically complicated websites Server side support for WebSockets (nodejs, Python, PHP, etc.) If interested, please email your resume and salary requirement at