[LRUG] [jobs] Stripe, FutureLearn, Nature & Money Advice Service

Thayer Prime thayer at team-prime.com
Mon Aug 12 04:15:16 PDT 2013


<tl;dr> YAY BEER, also JOBS at smart, thoughtful places full of
genuinely lovely technologists. £40-75k - full descriptions below.
Talk to me on email or tonight if you're interested in knowing more
about any of the companies, teams, structures etc - we work in
partnership style with our clients: think part of their team, not
"traditional" rec agency. </tl;dr>

<grab a coffee, this bit's long>
Hello LRUGgers

We're buying the beers tonight to thank you all for the team members
found so far <3

Here's some more teams we're currently building if anyone would like
to find out more you can come say hi tonight. Also, I like talking
about videogames, the industry generally and well, most things. So
when you see folks talking to me don't need to expect they're suddenly
looking for a role... ;-) It could easily be about kittehs.

So, we're building (permanent) teams right now with:

** FutureLearn - http://futurelearn.com/about - £40-75k

FutureLearn is an Open University backed startup that will provide an
engaging and innovative educational experience online. 25 top tier
universities have already signed up to offer their courses for free
through us. Currently we're 4 months into building a minimum viable
product which is in private alpha testing at the moment and will
launch publically in the autumn. You'll be joining a new team with
lots of room to carve out the role that interests you most and help
choose the other members of the team you will be working with. We all
value working with really talented people and so expect everyone we
hire to be very good. The team culture is very much one of
collaboration and so you will be able to help shape the processes we
use and the product we build.

Over the coming year we will face a number of key challenges from
migrating to an appropriate architecture to enable us to scale
massively, to designing innovative social learning experiences, to
providing data and analysis to our partners to help them improve
learning outcomes, and you'll be involved in solving all of these.

** Stripe - https://stripe.com/ - £SECRET! (seriously, they won't tell
us) but everyone in the company earns the same. Awsm. (think
Valve/Semco and you're about where Stipe positions itself, not just on
salary either)

I'm looking for self-starting community-visible high-level CTO/senior
programmers (language agnostic), who ideally (but not mandatory) have
either already launched, nearly launched or would like to launch their
own start ups. For me, the role is best suited to someone who's both
bright & smart but doesn't make others feel they aren't, and would
like to be part of the crazy ride of what genuinely looks like being a
rather large success in the near future. I don't mind whether you've
got 2 years or 20 years experience, so please don't be put off
chatting if you're fresh out of school or a seasoned veteran.

You'd like working at Stripe if...:

You love having data to back up an argument. You're a strong believer
in knowing the numbers and what they mean. You are highly analytical.
You are naturally curious. If something seems off, you want to figure
out what is going on and fix it.
You are very comfortable manipulating and interpreting data.
You have a passion for coding, and experience working on large
systems. You realize that 95% of scaling is doing nitty-gritty detail
work.
You have an interest in financial systems.
You feel comfortable communicating with customers and partners. You're
able to enunciate complex issues in clear, non-technical language.

** Nature - £45-60k - https://coderwall.com/team/nature-publishing-group

"We're structured into cross-functional project teams usually consisting of
three Rails developers, a dedicated front-end specialist, a QA specialist,
Scrum master and product owner and typically use a Scrum development
process (viz. daily stand-ups, two-week sprints, backlog grooming, sprint
planning, sprint demos and retrospectives). At the moment, our largest
project* is Nature's new open-access publishing platform and other projects
largely relate to that in some way (be it new journals or functionality
related to recommendations, linked data, etc.)." * (this may be
slightly out of date, as it was given to me in June)

** Money Advice Service - £57,570 no more, no less. -
http://www.team-prime.com/jobs/senior-ruby-developer/

Amazing team (about 20 technologists now? I lose count from us having
some awsm contractors too), doing some really useful stuff for folks
who need help with managing their money. NGO - so you're making tools
to help the poor get richer not the rich get richer ;-) >
https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/static/about-us

Overall job purpose:

Designing and building web and mobile products
Designing and implementing APIs for internal and external use.
Solid experience of web application development in Ruby and ideally a
background in Java.
Training and mentoring new developers
Being involved in the wider web development community, identifying
good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.

</phew>

If you made it this far, that's quite astonishing, and well done.

See you tonight.

Thayer
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Thayer Prime
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Team Prime Ltd
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