Hi Lee,<br><br>I did not get a chance yesterday to speak to you at LRUG, but I'm seeking a new position, and your offer looks very interesting.<div><br></div><div>Here is my LinkedIn profile: <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/drouchy">http://uk.linkedin.com/in/drouchy</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Let me know if you need more information.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to hearing from you,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><font color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15px"><br></span></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Lee Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lee@musicglue.com">lee@musicglue.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Music Glue has several openings for enthusiastic and thoughtful developers at a range of experience and a range of skills. I'm posting this ad to LRUG first because ideally the people we recruit will have some good Ruby knowledge, although we would also like someone who is confident and happy working with PHP (so pass it on if you do). I can't really slap a specific title like "Web Developer" on the role, we're looking for people who are happy wearing the front-end, back-end or devops hat as the situation requires.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Before going any further, let me tell you about the company. Music Glue is a direct to fan digital services company, based in Camden Town in London. In plain English, we create online tools to allow our clients to sell products directly to consumers, bypassing traditional supply chains. The products they sell fall with 3 categories being "tickets", "physical items" and "digital content". Our client base consists of artists (mostly musicians, but now some comedians and authors too), venues, concert promoters, record labels, festivals, and we plan to expand the list of verticals over the next few years. These clients range in size from "small independents" all the way up to global companies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Much like others advertising on here, I'm looking for people with the right kind of mentality - people who are interested in continually learning and pushing the quality and design of their systems forward. There are a lot of very smart people out there coding and blogging about this sort of subject, like Avdi Grimm, Gregory Brown and Steve Klabnik, and I hope I can sign up developers who are already listening to people like these and thinking about the subjects they discuss. Our existing team is also invested in the idea of event sourcing and use of separate models which are optimized for different use cases (e.g. reading and writing - 'cqrs' might trigger your buzzword alarm but it is very relevant). If you haven't come across these concepts before, check out bloggers like Udi Dahan and Greg Young. If they strike a cord with you, come and speak to us.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Culturally, I hope we're a bit like other forward-thinking employers out there. We like TDD, we try our best to be agile, we contribute to open source when we can. I'm sure every new employee will help us improve our processes, and I welcome their ideas and advice. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Finally, I guess it's always handy to see exactly the sorts of technologies being used to help candidates get a better feel for the role, so here we go:</div><div><br></div><div>- Rubies: YARV 1.9.3, JRuby 1.6.7</div>
<div>- Server-side: Rails 3, Sinatra, MongoDB, Mongoid, RabbitMQ, RSpec, Varnish, Nginx, WordPress + many more</div><div>- Client-side: Coffeescript, jQuery, Jasmine</div><div>- Deployment: Capistrano, Chef, Rackspace Cloud</div>
<div>- iOS / Android: not yet, but planned</div><div><br></div><div>Salary will vary with experience, but it will be very competitive for London. We really only want to hear from people who can make it into Camden every day, and we are happy to look into sponsorship if any overseas visitors who are already here wish to prolong their stay in the UK. Unsolicited calls from recruiters will be swiftly rebuffed. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If you are interested, please contact me via my email below. A CV would be great, but I'm particularly interested in hearing about what you've been working on in the last few years. I'm sure you've got a GitHub account, so point me at that too. </div>
<div><br></div><div>And finally, yes, I know our <a href="http://www.musicglue.com" target="_blank">www.musicglue.com</a> site is abominable. It's not quite as bad as Ling's Cars, but I do still worry that it will put people off. It'll be gone soon, but let me just state on the record that new employees will not be working on that! If you want a better representation of some of the things we do, you might check out:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.musicglue.net/imogenheap" target="_blank">http://www.musicglue.net/imogenheap</a></div><div><a href="http://www.entershikari.com/store/" target="_blank">http://www.entershikari.com/store/</a></div>
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....however that's all WordPress-based. The projects you would be working on are not publicly visible at the moment, but I look forward to showing you when you come in for a chat. Thanks for listening! :D</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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</div><div>Lee Henson</div><div>Music Glue CTO</div><div><a href="mailto:lee@musicglue.com" target="_blank">lee@musicglue.com</a></div><div><a href="https://github.com/leemhenson" target="_blank">https://github.com/leemhenson</a></div>
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