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

[Richard Green]

KPI's have helped me to measure success or failure - bad habit from my days
at eBay

*Did you know: *70% of the applicants who have applied to the role did not
supply a direct dial on their email or resume.



On 1 August 2013 11:45, brendan murphy <brendan at enthuse.me> wrote:

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> Think it all comes down to have you passéd this brick wall
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> On 1 Aug 2013, at 05:21, Darragh Browne <darragh.browne at ruby50.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>>
>> If you are interested, please send us an email to jobs at evvnt.com, along
>> with a Github profile (or equivalent), and/or a CV.
>>
>> Regards
>> Richard
>> --
>> --
>> Richard Green
>> Founder & CEO
>>
>> T: + 44 207 323 0450
>> M: + 44 7787 527499
>> US CELL: 917 318 0169
>> E: richard at evvnt.com
>> W: evvnt.com
>>
>> SKYPE :: evvnt.com
>>
>> evvnt.com - Love Events
>> *evvnt <http://evvnt.com/>| linkedin<http://www.linkedin.com/company/evvnt>|
>> facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evvnt/203929639719809> | twitter<https://twitter.com/#%21/evvnt>
>> *
>>
>> “I read the EVENTS presentation, and I think that it has the potential to
>> be the best multi-media package in the city” Scott Schultz, Metro US
>>
>> evvnt Ltd :: London Office: 83 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 6RH
>> Registered in England, No: 8062041  - VAT 135069029
>> Registered Office: Unit 11 Hove Business Centre, Fonthill Road, Hove,
>> East Sussex, BN3 6HA, UK
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-- 
-- 
Richard Green
Founder & CEO

T: + 44 207 323 0450
M: + 44 7787 527499
US CELL: 917 318 0169
E: richard at evvnt.com
W: evvnt.com

SKYPE :: evvnt.com

evvnt.com - Love Events
*evvnt <http://evvnt.com/>| linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/company/evvnt>|
facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evvnt/203929639719809> |
twitter<https://twitter.com/#%21/evvnt>
*

“I read the EVENTS presentation, and I think that it has the potential to
be the best multi-media package in the city” Scott Schultz, Metro US

evvnt Ltd :: London Office: 83 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 6RH
Registered in England, No: 8062041  - VAT 135069029
Registered Office: Unit 11 Hove Business Centre, Fonthill Road, Hove, East
Sussex, BN3 6HA, UK

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