<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Hi LRUGers,</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Coffee, a product most people love but know precious little about. Because as the quality of coffee improves so too does the level of intimidation involved. </span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">That’s why we’re here. At Pact coffee we’ve taken a product that people love - and used technology to make really good coffee really easy to get hold of. We’re talking high-end coffee made accessible and fun.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">I’m Tony and I head up Product and Technology at Pact Coffee.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">I posted here in December last year and a lot has changed since then. Don’t worry - we’re still roasting and shipping coffee with our 7 day freshness guarantee - but the rate at which we’re growing means we’ve had to move with the times. </span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Since we started out in February 2013 we’ve grown by 40% every 4 weeks. So while growing at this rate we’ve had to make adjustments every day, simply to cope with the increased capacity. It’s an exciting place to be, and now we’re stepping things up again. We’re looking for two developers who aren’t afraid to be challenged.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Our challenges include:</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scaling operations to three times our current throughput. It’s not a new problem but, with our projected volumes, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution. People, process and hardware are the key ingredients here.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Same day delivery. Running out of coffee should be a thing of the past; every morning should start with a cup of coffee. We need to make that happen for our service to be worthwhile.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Customer engagement. We strive to answer every customer’s query within moments of them asking. Email, phone and Twitter are some of the channels we use to engage with our community. With scale, we have a challenge of keeping these engagements relevant and timely. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage word of mouth through our customers, but for that to work we need our customers to love us from the moment they ‘meet’ us. Our Twitter feed tells a great story of the first impression we leave, but it’s not the complete story. Our goal is to have them love us, from the first moment we touch.</span></p>
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</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The customer before everything.</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><br>
The users’ overall experience is critical to us. It’s not just about the technology and fancy pixels; we talk about how a feature will affect Janice and Kevin. The user is always in the forefront of our minds, you can check our twitter feed @pactcoffee to see what that looks like.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">How we work...</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><br>
Ours is a small, agile team, where we all take full ownership of each feature from idea to finished article. We ship code many times a day. We understand when we need to take on technical debt and when to pay it back. We also respect each other enough to give honest feedback.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The perfect person to join our team is...</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">- Not looking for a normal job. We all pitch in where we can to help one another, so you’ll find yourself talking to customers, testing out new ideas, packing coffee, delivering coffee and doing lots of other things it would be impossible to predict.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">- Looking for a challenge. We like to push boundaries in everything we do.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">- Able to write clean, readable, testable code.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">- Experienced with Rails, Ruby, TDD, Javascript, AWS, CI, CD.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">- Analytical in decision making but able to come up with experiments to answer questions.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">- Focused on and able to empathise with the customer (bonus points if you’re a Pact subscriber).</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">If this sounds exciting to you, please get in touch (</span><a href="mailto:tony@pactcoffee.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">tony@pactcoffee.com</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">)</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">You’ve read this far, so If you’ve not tried Pact Coffee, it’s only fair that I should credit you with £10 when you sign up. Use the voucher code “TONYSENTME”</span></p>
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