[LRUG] [JOBS] Rails Developer at The Amazings

[Ian Kynnersley]

Chris,

I hadn't read that. I was posting on behalf of The Amazings who are a
sister company to Sidekick where I work.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. It has made me really angry as I
have been quite vocal in my support of diversity in the tech world and have
tried as hard as I can to be as inclusive as possible in my own attempts to
recruit.

I am sure that this is mostly down to being badly worded rather than
malicious. The Amazings team is roughly 50% female and would definitely
welcome applications from anyone who wants to get involved in what they're
doing. Sadly, stuff like this is likely to have the exact opposite effect.

I will do what I can to ensure appropriate changes are made.

Ian


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Chris Mear <chrismear at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.theamazings.com/pages/about#team*
> *
>
> *"CTO:* This will almost certainly be a man (a female CTO would be too
> much to wish for). "
>
> *"Software Engineer:* There's a (minuscule) chance this person might be a
> woman."
>
> Seriously?
>
> Chris
>
> On Tuesday, 12 February 2013, Ian Kynnersley wrote:
>
>> Hello LRUG people,
>>
>> Another job posting! I think this is the first one today so hopefully you
>> will all look kindly upon it.
>>
>> The Amazings is a platform for over 50s to share skills with the world:
>> http://www.theamazings.com/.
>>
>> Reinventing retirement and education is what we're interested in.
>>
>> We've had interest to expand nationally and internationally, and within
>> that context, we're looking to grow a solid technical team.
>>
>> If you get excited by making products that solve proper problems, in a
>> fast moving startup, then get in touch.
>>
>> We're looking for a senior and a mid-weight engineer to join the team and
>> are open to temporary or permanent hires.
>> It's a Rails app on a fairly standard Heroku stack (Postgres, etc).
>>
>> Give me a shout if you're interested.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ian
>>
>> Product Lead, Sidekick Studios
>> http://sidekickstudios.net/ | http://twitter.com/kpopper
>>
>


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Ian Kynnersley
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