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C42 Engineering is looking for talented and passionate programmers.

You do not have to have prior experience in Ruby or Rails to apply – all we care about is that you enjoy programming and that you’re good at it.

Here’s an extract from our careers page¹ – if you fall into one or more of these categories, you’ll probably fit right in.

• You care about writing code, and writing it well
• You are a polyglot programmer and are comfortable with several programming languages
• You are passionate about products and product development
• You test drive all your code
• You are familiar with eXtreme Programming (XP)
• You contribute to open source projects
• You love both teaching and learning, and take pleasure in getting better at what you do
• You want to work with like minded, intelligent people you can have a real conversation with
• You aren’t overly fond of conformity, especially in the context of being a faceless cog in a big company
• You value decency and integrity, and prefer working with other people who do so too

Here’s a quick outline of the company:

• C42 Engineering is a 1.5 year old boutique Ruby and Rails consultancy.
• We follow an Agile/XP setup where we test drive all our code and pair program throughout.
• We have nascent product and training arms.
  • We did our first public training session² last month.
  • We are on the verge of launching the beta of our first product.
• We are deeply involved in the Ruby community.
  • We contribute to open-source via both our own projects³ as well as patches to existing projects⁴ like RSpec.
  • Our top three open-source projects combined have ~350 watchers and ~50 forks.
  • We speak fairly frequently at various conferences⁵. Our talks have been accepted at the international RubyConf for two consecutive years now.
  • We were one of the sponsors of RubyConf India⁶ and we are committed to supporting this event in the future.
• We obsess over integrity and transparency. Internally, all finances and salaries are open.
• We pay extremely competitive salaries. As we say on our careers page, we may not match top paymasters like Amazon and Google, but we’re within shouting distance.
• We understand that snacking and hacking go hand-in-hand and so maintain a fully stocked pantry.
• We play video games.

For more information, please take a look at our careers page¹ or email us at work@c42.in.

[1] http://c42.in/careers
[2] http://c42-ruby-tdd-jul11.doattend.com
[3] http://github.com/c42
[4] http://github.com/c42engineering
[5] http://blog.c42.in/tag/conference
[6] http://rubyconfindia.org/2011/sponsors.html#c42-engineering