[LRUG] [JOBS] Full-time permanent Rails dev to join a team near the hallowed roundabout

[Duncan Stuart]

Hi again LRUG

We successfully hired a junior Rails dev, but we're now looking for a
Middleweight at £40k

TLDR: Small, no-bullshit public sector agency - we're increasing the amount
of Rails development we do and we want someone to join our team, take a
hand in defining how we do things and mentor our junior dev.

Apply http://dxw.com/jobs/, more details below

We're working with a bunch of recruiters - we're definitely not taking any
more on.


On 1 July 2013 16:56, Duncan Stuart <dgmstuart at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi LRUG
>
> I work for dxw <http://dxw.com/> and we are looking to hire a rails dev
> to join our team working on a mixture of client projects (mostly central
> government), internal tools, and products for the general public. (please
> excuse the awful out-of-date website - it’s on our list...).
>
> It’s a full-time permanent role in Old Street - up to £35k depending on
> experience, which probably means someone a bit more junior. Details are
> here: http://dxw.com/jobs/
>
> Things you need to know about us:
>
>    - We’ve got a nice airy office (wooden floors, lots of light
>    blahblahblah)
>    - There's a good atmosphere in the office - we have our own dialect
>    and in-jokes. There's also quite a lot of good-natured swearing.
>    - We use Git for everything. Because we're sane. We run our own git
>    server, and deployments are via git-push
>    - We make Pink Grapefruit soda with the office sodastream
>    -
>
>    Our espresso machine sounds like Inception:
>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3f_8vCFOcM
>    - We’re mostly Mac users (we’ll buy you one, or something else if you
>    like - as long as it’s not running Windows...) and we all have either 3
>    monitors or one huge one.
>
>
> It’s a small agency (we just hired our 8th person) - a mix of dev and
> client people, but our founder is a developer so it’s at the heart of
> everything we do. Personally I’ve come from working in much larger
> organisations and I really appreciate the lack of big-company bullshit* and
> the satisfaction of doing good work with a team of really good people who
> actually give a crap. The focus is always on common sense: we’ve got formal
> processes where they’re useful, but never where simple good communication
> will suffice.
>
> While a lot of the client work we do is WordPress** (don’t worry- this
> role won’t involve touching any icky php) we use Rails for:
>
>    -
>
>    Client projects which require more transactional functionality -
>    nothing still live at the moment, but there’s a big project coming up which
>    you’d be working on,
>    -
>
>    Internal tools (e.g. we couldn’t find anything decent to track details
>    of our clients and their projects, so we built one ourselves),
>    -
>
>    We’re also branching out into creating products for the general public
>    - with a focus on making dev's lives easier. The first one is Citrulu (
>    http://citrulu.com/) which lets you write cucumber-style tests for
>    live sites and get alerts when they go down.
>
>
>
>
> We do have a few people who know their way around the framework (myself
> included), but none of us are hardcore rubyists and we’re aware of the gaps
> in our knowledge. TDD for example: we like the idea but haven’t really had
> a proper stab at it. We're pretty much up-to-date with Rails 3 (asset
> pipeline etc.) and always open to learning new/better ways of doing things.
> We all love HAML, fight over SASS vs SCSS and are yet to be convinced by
> Coffeescript.
>
>
> We've been able to get by on small client projects and internal tools
> (i.e. no deadlines), but now we're getting more client work which is
> requiring us to beef up our Rails capabilities.
>
> Check out our GitHub - https://github.com/dxw
>
> We haven't been able to make many of our client projects open source, but
> there's a slow movement in government to make more things open.
>
>
> Twitter accounts:
>
> @thedxw <https://twitter.com/thedxw>
>
> @citrulu <https://twitter.com/citrulu>
>
> @dxwsecurity <https://twitter.com/dxwsecurity>
>
> @dgmstuart <https://twitter.com/dgmstuart> (me)
>
> @harrym <https://twitter.com/harrym> (founder)
>
>
> Please get in touch if you've got any questions
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Duncan
>
>  This is our actual bookshelf
>
> This is a terrible photo of our office
>
>
> This is another terrible photo of our office.
>
>
> *Of course, there IS occasionally client-related bullshit, but you can't
> fix everything.
>
> ** We're actually really not fans of PHP and only use it in a WordPress
> context because the platform is so popular. Actually some of the
> WordPress stuff the team have produced is designed to make it more Rails-y:
> Whippet is a WordPress development console modelled after the Rails
> terminal (https://github.com/dxw/whippet), and we've got a hosting
> platform in the pipeline modelled after Heroku
>
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