[LRUG] [JOBS] Lead Developer at Picfair

[Benji Lanyado]

Some more details here: https://www.picfair.com/jobs

Thanks!

Benji


On 7 July 2014 11:28, Najaf Ali <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:

> 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
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Founder, Picfair.com
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