You sound great singing in the shower; but, there’s a rock star inside you!
The discrepancy between your potential for greatness and your current job options is heartbreaking. You are smart, talented, and ambitious. But, you’re young and you don’t have enough industry experience to land the jobs that you really want. Unfortunately, the jobs you are qualified for might kill your spirit before they open better doors for you.
Many days you feel unstoppable; you have so many ideas and so much you want to learn, you have to will yourself to stop working and go to bed at night. In a state of calm practicality you’ve reasoned that it’s OK that your 9-5 job can’t be the source of (or receptacle for) your inspiration. You’ll just work your eight hours and then hurry home to unload your brilliance on your own projects. At the pace you’re going, you figure that in a year or two you’ll have built that bad-ass application, made a few connections, and leave the life-sucking job in the dust.
On other days, you know you can’t keep up with the schedule you’ve created. As much as you want to get ahead and learn how to design, build, and deploy Rails applications, there’s just no way you can work on a legacy codebase for a government agency all day long and come home with an ounce of energy left. You troll every job site you can find, hoping for a new gig.
I have good news for you, young rock star. We get it!
At Viget Labs, we are looking for a junior developer (or two) who believes that the only thing between their current status and their future as a leader in the field is a few years of hard work in the right kind of work environment. We’re looking for raw talent and a burning desire - we’ll provide the rest.
Scrap the notion that a junior position means grunt work and days at a time "monkey-testing" web applications; we think "junior" means eager, energetic, and passionate. We expect our junior developers to keep us rooted in the spirit that got Viget started in the first place - a relentless determination to do great work.
How awesome of a developer could you be if you were surrounded by mentors and like-minded technology lovers who pushed each other to keep up with the cutting edge? How rewarding would it feel to be expected to learn constantly - everything from database design to Test-Driven Development - and then share the knowledge with the company? How exciting would it be to not just accelerate your own skills, but help shape the technical direction of the entire company? Think about it. If conditions were ideal, how far could your hard work take you? Rock star status?
Viget is a full service web consulting firm with serious technologic depth. We have designers, developers, project managers, and internet marketing experts who work together to do exceptional work for impressive clients. We have an outstanding reputation, awesome space, fearless leaders, and strong values. We provide opportunities to attend training and conferences, and often our senior developers are presenting at those conferences. We work almost entirely in Ruby on Rails and we're active in the open-source community. And, if you think there’s more to life than work - well, you’re right. We also have a lot of fun, a family-friendly atmosphere, and a sweet benefits package. We’ve done our part - conditions are as ideal as we can make them - and we did it all for an important reason: to attract the right people. The "right people" are those who are itching for the chance to blow us away, exceed all expectations, and unleash their inner programming rock star.
If you think you’re up for the challenge, let’s find out. Email us at jobs.va@viget.com; describe what technology you’ve already mastered and what you wish you were learning right now; convince us that you are driven and talented; and tell us what about this ad resonates with you. A resume can’t hurt. Don’t worry, the rock star thing is just a metaphor - we won’t make you sing.