[LRUG] [JOBS] Lead Developer at Picfair

[Najaf Ali]

Benji asked me to come on board last year when Picfair wasn't anywhere near
as successful as it is now. If I were more amenable to FTE I'd be kicking
myself. It's *very* rare that you find a startup founder that has anything
like a hope in hell of succeeding, but I wouldn't bet against Benji. If you
want to do the whole startup CTO thing and actually build something people
with use, apply!




On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Benji Lanyado <benjilanyado at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello LRUGgers
>
> Picfair <https://www.picfair.com/> is looking for a Ruby developer.
>
> *What?*
>
> Picfair is a recently-funded
> <http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/08/picfair-raises-520k-to-take-on-getty-with-an-image-marketplace/> (investors
> include Alexis Ohanian, Reddit founder) image licensing marketplace,
> connecting photographers directly to buyers. I'm sorry to do this, but the
> analogy works: it's AirBnB for images. We are gunning for Shutterstock and
> Getty - they constrict supply and take the vast majority of royalties in a
> $6bn market. We do neither, and want to take that market from them.
>
> Picfair is very young, but already has 50,000 ridiculously good
> <https://www.picfair.com/posts/best-of-2013-picfair-picks-images-of-the-future> images
> uploaded by 4,000 photographers in 60 different countries. We've made them
> thousands of pounds already, have had images licensed from website
> backgrounds to newspaper front pages. We've barely even started. The next
> few years are going to be incredibly exciting.
>
> *Who*
>
>  I'm Benji, the founder of the company: a recovering journalist (NYT,
> Guardian - I still dabble, when I feel like kicking Tech City
> <http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/30/tech-city-subsidise-code-schools-year-of-code>)
> who learnt how to code
> <http://www.fastcolabs.com/3013699/open-company/how-this-journalist-turned-coder-built-his-startup-for-6000> in
> order to build the site. Yes - *gasp* - a CEO who codes.
>
> So far, Team Picfair are four: a brilliant and disconcertingly
> young junior designer/developer <https://www.behance.net/jcklydesign>; an
> equally brilliant and disconcertingly young Growth Marketer
> <https://twitter.com/MissEm_ma>; an Editorial Manager
> <https://www.picfair.com/users/salxhart>with the eye of a Guggenheim
> curator; and me. We work in a very fun shared workplace in Shoreditch
> <https://twitter.com/benjilanyado/status/476673719059099648>, alongside
> 10 other startups.
>
> The phenomenal Rik Lomas <https://twitter.com/riklomas> has been looking
> after Picfair's product for the last few months, and is now off to launch
> something new (watch this space, you'll love it), so, we're looking for a
> ....
>
> *Lead Developer*
>
>  Picfair currently has a single aim: do whatever it takes to get sh*t
> loads of good images onto the site, building up to a benchmark when the
> company's focus can swing to the other side of the market, launching an
> all-pronged attack on the industry incumbents.
>
> Picfair's Lead Developer will oversee and build a variety of things that
> will get it there. The challenges are big - we want to be managing millions
> of images, uploaded from thousands of locations, very soon. We are looking
> for someone who is as skilled at writing code as they are at organisation:
> Picfair is a Get Sh*t Done company.
>
> - 5 years min RoR experience
> - Excellent code/deployment planning and management skills
> - Very good Javascript (Backbone/jQuery), good front end skills, and good
> design/UX instinct
> - Experience in scaling web apps & DBs from quite big to REALLY BIG.
> - Someone who is passionate about what they do.
> - Competitive salary & EMI scheme
>
> If you're interested, please send over your CV and Github. Looking forward
> to hearing from you.
>
> Benji Lanyado
> Founder, Picfair.com
> benjlabs.com
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>
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