Ruby on Rails Job Trends

From the indeed.com job search site (which looks very nice by the way), the trend for Ruby on Rails mentions in job postings is on a steep growth curve. The absolute percentage is smaller than other terms, and there may be other factors that contribute to the trend but it's pretty telling.

But to keep things in perspective, compare Ruby on Rails with J2EE job postings

More happy fun job trends for Ajax, Web2.0, et al.

Job openings at OthersOnline

I've been busy and having a lot of fun cleaning up and building out different pieces of the OthersOnline system. So far I've fixed a few issues in the InternetExplorer toolbar, implemented the Firefox toolbar, implemented a widget for bloggers, built Web pages for profile search and browse, and variously tweaked and tuned the profile matching algorithms on the server. But now it's time to add a few more engineers. We have two job openings for an experienced software engineer and an experienced UI designer. Feel free to contact me at mike at othersonline dot com, or forward this to someone that may be interested.

Senior User Interface Designer
As a Web applications developer with OthersOnline you will define and create the user experience for all our applications that results in a highly social and interactive community of online users.
You will be responsible for operational support as well as prototyping features and brainstorming ideas. You will design, document and implement usable, enjoyable and engaging features using DHTML, Javascript, CSS, XML and Ajax and work within a Linux and Java based server environment. Candidates must be creative, flexible, self-directed, and understand how to design and write elegant, responsive and maintainable user interfaces.

Senior Software Engineer
As a software engineer with OthersOnline, you will create innovative algorithms and data services to dramatically improve search result relevance and create highly scalable, reliable Web services that extend the reach of our platform.

You will be responsible for operational support as well as brainstorming features and ideas. You will design, document and implement scalable, flexible features using Java, XML, SQL and HTTP in a Linux and Oracle environment. The ability to document technical approaches completely, correctly and concisely is required. Candidates must be creative, flexible, self-directed, and understand how to design and write high-performance, reliable and maintainable code and data models.