[LRUG] [Jobs] Lead Developer - evvnt - London :: Seed Funding Raised

[Darragh Browne]

It's more the fact that ability to deploy to Heroku is such a given, that
it probably doesn't need to be listed as a requirement on a job spec for a
rails dev ;-)

D

On Thursday, 1 August 2013, Sleepyfox wrote:

> I may be new to this Ruby thing, but there appears to be getting support
> for rails 3.x as well as the more recent 4
>
> https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3
>
> Is this a recent occurrence?
>
> Fox
> --
> On 1 Aug 2013 05:21, "Darragh Browne" <darragh.browne at ruby50.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'darragh.browne at ruby50.com');>>
> wrote:
>
>> I like the way you have applied KPIs to you previously 'epic' email.
>>
>> Best of luck hiring rails developers who have experience in deploying to
>> Heroku.
>>
>> Darragh
>>
>> On Wednesday, 31 July 2013, Richard Green wrote:
>>
>> Good Event Ruby User Group,
>>
>> I hope everyone is indeed well and looking forward to vacations ahead. I
>> wanted to share some news with the group as we are keen to attract a Lead
>> Developer to our business here on Great Titchfield Street, Central London
>> to build out a strategic development team and to manage our offshore
>> resource.
>>
>> Dan Singerman, Nick Dainty and Daniel Laeng have to date contributed
>> exceptional code to the business which has enabled us to build an awesome
>> product and off the back of this in the last week secure a seed round. We
>> will be adding a Non Exec Director to the board from Facebook, San
>> Francisco joining from September as we begin our USA expansion 2014.
>>
>> Today evvnt has well over 250 customers active<http://evvnt.com/clients/>on the application, ranging from subscription to enterprise accounts,  1000+
>> publishers, <http://evvnt.com/where/> strong monthly revenues and we are
>> looking for an individual who would like to move away from project /
>> contract work and come build, own, create and inspire a world class events
>> platform.
>>
>> Off the back of the last 'EPIC' email we had 5000 uniques hit our website
>> in one day, 16 recruiters call in, 8 developers apply, and 1 at sleepyfox<https://twitter.com/sleepyfox>visit the office - indeed an experience. The developers who for reasons
>> mainly due to location and timing did not meet the brief, we are still
>> continuing our search as we work towards a September hire.
>>
>> *Media Pack -*
>> http://evvnt.com/conference-exhibition-media-pack-event-marketing/
>>
>> *We would appreciate if recruitment agencies would not contact us as we
>> are only hiring directly at this time.*
>> Lead Developer – Full Time
>>
>> At evvnt.com, we are expanding our development team to help us grow and
>> expand our business. We offer a common sense solution to an obvious problem
>> and we are signing up subscription and enterprise clients daily.
>>
>> We are looking for a smart developer who can learn what our business
>> needs from technology and can work in a team to deliver business driven
>> features. The person we hire will work in the team with overall
>> responsibility for our platform, and will be expected to provide strong
>> input into how our product evolves.
>>
>> As a ‘full-stack’ software developer you will be responsible for the
>> evvnt application using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Your role
>> will involve building our back-end web service in Rails, front end platform
>> and API integrations with our partner sites.
>>
>> *What you should have:*
>>
>>    - Experience developing with Ruby on Rails and deploying on Heroku
>>    - Passion for technology and how to apply it to real business problems
>>    - Good communication skills and the ability to work in a team
>>    - 3 + years software development experience building scalable web
>>    applications
>>    - Excellent knowledge of JavaScript, HTML & CSS.
>>    - University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a
>>    related subject.
>>
>> *What would be an advantage:*
>>
>>    - Creating and consuming JSON and REST APIs
>>    - Front end development skills
>>
>> *What we offer:*
>>
>>    - Friendly environment
>>    - Central London location (Oxford Circus)
>>    - Interesting work within a highly skilled team
>>    - Salary – Negotiable
>>
>> This is a permanent full time position based at our offices.
>>
>> We offer a genuinely competitive salary, and for the right candidates,
>> share options. We welcome applications from across Europe as we continue to
>> build a diverse and multi-skilled development team.
>>
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