RoR needed at Art/Design Social Network

We are a well-funded startup company looking for a full-time Ruby on Rails guru to take over the maintenance and future development of current online t-shirt design contest / social networking site which features art, design, and artists from around the world.

Experience and Qualifications:

• You are a Rails expert, who may not have written the book on Rails but could have.
• You are passionate about web 2.0, use an RSS reader everyday, and stay up to date on the latest web offerings.
• You can build websites which can handle the digg or slashdot effect.
• You understand development is iterative and you believe in release early and often.
• You know the different ways to use caching in web applications and the benefits and drawbacks of each.
• You feel at home on a Unix/Linux shell.
• You are pretty comfy hand crafting sql queries and indexes for those performance-critical situations, but rely on database abstraction for your day-to-day need.

Technologies:

• Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, MemCache
• Linux and Apache
• PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Web Services (REST/SOAP/XML-RPC)
• AJAX, DHTML, JavaScript
• PHP
• Configuration Management (Source Code Control, Deployments, Builds)

Bonus Skills (but not required)

• XHTML/XML/HTML, CSS, XSL and Web Standards
• Photoshop basics