[LRUG] [JOBS] 38 Degrees: Lead Software Engineer and 2x Developers

[James Rees]

Hi all,

I'm the Tech Director at 38 Degrees (https://home.38degrees.org.uk/). We're
a non-profit campaigning organisation with millions of members across the
UK. We have several in-house Ruby apps to run petitions and surveys, email
millions of people, organise thousands of co-ordinated events nationwide
and provide advanced analytics to our campaigns staff.

Our two main developers have recently moved on and because we are expanding
our tech ambition we are looking to build a new team of 3 people. We want
to hire a Lead Software Engineer who will be responsible for day-to-day
management of the platform and running of the dev team as well as getting
their hands dirty working on features. We're also hiring two developers who
will work on the team. These positions are flexible in required experience
- we would be open to hiring a more junior and a more senior developer for
example.

This might be the job for you if you are:

 - Excited by creating tech for new ways to engage millions of people in
political action

 - A quick learner

 - A builder and a problem solver. Able to rapidly get new features and
apps up and running. Willing to experiment and fail

 - Passionate about working with a collaborative, multidisciplinary,
mission-driven team!

More details here:
https://home.38degrees.org.uk/about/jobs/ (We are only looking for direct
applicants, no recruiters please)

Here's a bit more on our stack:

We’re in the process of open-sourcing several of our major apps, including
our main action platform. You can check out what we’ve got already on
GitHub, but there’s also a lot more to follow. https://github.com/38dgs

Our platform is made up of several small-to-medium-sized apps which
exchange data via webhooks and APIs. The main ones are:

 - Speakout - petitions, email-to-target, fundraising and surveys for our
members

 - Identity - a CRM for securely keeping track of members’ details and mail
targeting

 - Analytics - a high-powered SQL database which gives us daily and long
term insights

 - Organise - an organising tool for local members to meet each other and
plan events

 - Controlshift - run by ControlshiftLabs, this allows members to run their
own campaigns

 - Mailer - run by BlueStateDigital

Most of our applications are written in Ruby (Padrino/Sinatra framework),
although there are a couple of small ones in Node.js, one in Phoenix
(Elixir) and one in Rails. We use Heroku for deployment and services like
Amazon RDS to allow us to focus on features not maintenance. We’re inspired
by the Twelve Factor app methodology for making scalable, easy-to-maintain
and easy-to-deploy code (http://12factor.net/)
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