[LRUG] [JOBS] Ruby role(s) at FutureLearn

[Sleepyfox]

If anyone would like to get a look inside what it's like to work here, both
myself and @jcoglan have worked with/are working at FutureLearn.

Fox
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On 26 June 2014 16:44, Thayer Prime <thayer at team-prime.com> wrote:

> Hi LRUG
>
> <tl;dr>We're helping build the team at FutureLearn
> (https://www.futurelearn.com/) and keen to hear from mid level to
> senior level ruby developers who are interested in a permanent
> role*.</tl;dr>
>
> ## Here's the skinny:
>
> FutureLearn is a small Open University backed startup dedicated to
> offering free online university level education to all. We’re a
> company that values its employees and so we give people plenty of
> flexibility and autonomy and support them in their ongoing career
> development. Our very talented team maintain an open and collaborative
> culture and so you will be expected to help shape the processes we use
> and the product we build.
>
> FutureLearn launched in Sep 2013 and over the coming year we will face
> a number of key challenges, from scaling the platform, 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.
>
> Although the core skill we are looking for is your ability to develop
> with Ruby we also expect everyone on the team to be able to offer more
> than this, for example you may also have expertise in developing
> maintainable JavaScript and CSS which will enable you to work more
> closely with our front end developers.
>
> We also expect you to be keen to share what you already know to the
> rest of the team and to be eager to learn more.
>
> ## Things you may have that will put you in good stead for the work needed:
>
> * Expertise with deploying large scale systems to AWS
> * Experience of using or building online learning environments
> * Experience of working in a continuous deployment environment
> * Experience of using data analysis to improve products
> * Experience of building service orientated architecture based systems
> * Extensive experience building software with other languages/frameworks
> * Expertise in producing maintainable CSS and JavaScript
> * A demonstrable passion for learning
>
> ## Things you'll get on top of building a great product:
>
> * Salary £35-75k dependent on experience
> * 28 days holiday
> * Pension
> * Working with an ace collaborative team led by @joelchippindale
> including folks such as @czetter, @mseckington, @eightbitraptor,
> @knotnicky, @jcoglan and more.
>
> If you'd like to chat about it drop me an email with your CV and why
> you're keen on the role, and we can schedule a call to discuss it in
> detail and see if it's something you'd like to go forward for.
>
> Cheers
> Thayer
>
> * that sounds weird. You don't have to stay FOREVER. A few years would
> be nice, though.
>
> --
> Thayer Prime
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>
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