Rovi Corporation ((NASDAQ: ROVI) is focused on revolutionizing the digital entertainment landscape by delivering solutions that enable consumers to intuitively connect to new entertainment from many sources and locations, and has one of the world’s leading patent portfolios in this area, with more than 4500 issued patents and pending applications worldwide. The company licenses its patent portfolio to consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers and other third parties around the world. Rovi also provides its own extensive entertainment discovery solutions for television, movies, music and photos, together with industry leading entertainment data, to create the connections between people and technology, and enable them to discover and manage entertainment in an enjoyable form. With the recent acquisition of Sonic, Rovi has expanded its breadth of offerings throughout the digital entertainment ecosystem to include content producers, post production digitization, distribution of content ensuring both digital rights and quality of distribution in addition to ecommerce management for content distributors. We have become an end-to-end provider of world class digital entertainment. Rovi is a global company headquartered in Santa Clara with nearly 2200 employees worldwide.

PLEASE NOTE THIS POSITION IS LOCATED IN SF, RELOCATION REQUIRED.

At Rovi, the SideReel team is building the best online experience in the world of television and video. We’re looking for Rails engineers to join our fun and talented organization. Our servers handle about a million users a day and our developers deal with big data and cool problems. If you’re interested in pushing Rails to succeed at this level, drop us a line.

Responsibilities:

Here’s what we do:
Design and develop the features and infrastructure related to the SideReel.com website.
Design and develop important data management and analysis tools that control the ingestion and processing of entertainment content, links, and metadata.
Work with Ruby (1.8.7 and 1.9.2), Rails (2 and 3), Mysql, Redis, Memcache, Varnish, Passenger, JQuery, and other associated technologies.
Test drive our code, work in pairs, and practice a pragmatic agility.

You should:
Have worked on public Rails sites before – we love fast learners but are really looking for someone who will hit the ground running.
Be a full stack engineer — you should be comfortable developing features using Javascript, Ruby, Rails, and the database.
Understand the motivations behind TDD/BDD and have fluency developing tests and writing code in this fashion.
Have a great attitude – we enjoy working together, and hope you will too!

Skills that’ll land you first in the queue:
Deep experience with caching & performance in Rails.
Strong skills and experience with integration testing and the quirks of Cucumber/Capybara/Selenium.
Experience shipping a high-traffic Rails site or publishing a widely used gem.

• Location: San Francisco, CA
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