[LRUG] Ruby Opportunities at Wildfire/New UK Dev Office in London!

[Steven Shingler]

Hi guys,

I generally don't get involved with the recruiter flaming on here, but I feel I should add some clarity on this one.

I'm heading up the London branch of the Wildfire engineering team. When we started a couple of months ago, James Tucker (our CTO in California) wrote to this list explaining what we're about and what we're trying to do. 

You can find his post here: http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2012-January/006846.html

For those that don't know, James is the maintainer of Rack. He also contributes to EventMachine and Rubygems itself. Other guys on our 45-strong team have contributed to Rails and other significant OSS projects.

As we all know, finding excellent Ruby developers is hard: market forces are against us. That's exactly why Wildfire have opened a London office - to tap into a new hiring pool. Our strategy has been to scour Github for London-based  developers who are using Ruby actively and expertly.

In terms of interviewing, we are really very stringent about only hiring people with excellent skills which can complement the existing team. Also, Wildfire's culture is a very important part of the hiring process - we're up on GlassDoor as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco area and we're working to establish the same kind of great working environment in London.

Just yesterday there was a TechCrunch article which shows where the company is currently at: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/wildfire/ - so that gives a bit of perspective about the company as a whole.

Our approach has so far been very successful. In two months we've grown the team to 7 and I'm really excited about our next steps.

Lastly, Graham's right. I've worked with him in the past and he's a really excellent engineer. However, I know he's recently moved to Manchester and is founding his own startup. Very best of luck there, Graham. :)

I hope that helps, please give me a shout if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Steven


On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 13:25, Sam Livingston-Gray wrote:

> I got a remarkably similar email targeted toward their California office. This was despite having a FAQ page on my site describing my strong lack of interest in relocation (and a blurb on the front page specifically directing recruiters to the FAQ before asking me about their Bay Area jobs!), so Ruthie can't be paying *that* much attention. :)
> 
> --(Sent from phone; please excuse brevity.)
> 
> On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:36 AM, Jon Wood <jon at blankpad.net (mailto:jon at blankpad.net)> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'll confess.
> > 
> > I got my current job through one of these emails - I was however already looking at the time I received it, and the job described was basically my dream job.
> > 
> > When I'm not actively looking for work, I'll delete them without reading much further than the first paragraph.
> > 
> > Jon 
> > 
> > On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 08:18, Chris Parsons wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On 22 Mar 2012, at 06:50, Chris Kimpton wrote:
> > > > They were impressed by me too :P 
> > > 
> > > I only ever read as far as I can before the email client catches up with my pressing of the delete key, so I never get far enough down the emails to check whether they were impressed or not :)
> > > 
> > > Seriously, these emails must work, though, or they wouldn't send them, right? Who responds to them then? Go on, own up :)
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Chris Parsons
> > > chris.p at rsons.org (mailto:chris.p at rsons.org)
> > > http://twitter.com/chrismdp
> > > http://pa.rsons.org
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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