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

[Louis Goff-Beardsley]

I'm also going to be around tonight and have a ridiculous number of
exclusive contracts available. Day rates are anywhere from £375 to £425.
Some have a decent lead-up time if anyone is looking for a chance to go from
Permanent work to contract and want something booked up before they hand
their notice in.

07449324851

-----Original Message-----
From: chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On
Behalf Of Thayer Prime
Sent: 12 August 2013 12:15
To: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: [LRUG] [jobs] Stripe, FutureLearn, Nature & Money Advice Service

<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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