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<p class="">Forward Partners is a “startup catalyst”, combining funding with practical hands-on expertise and insight.</p>
<p class="">We invest in eCommerce startups and offer them help to succeed. We do more than advise and mentor, we roll our sleeves up and get involved. Our support spans customer development, coding, design, customer acquisition, recruitment and fundraising. We also offer co-working space to our companies in our East Road, N1 offices.<br>
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<p class="">Companies we’ve helped include: Hailo, Zopa, Wool and the Gang, Thread, Big Health, Stylect, Makers Academy, Blik Book, DriftRock, Top10, SnapTrip, Loyalty Bay and Appear Here</p>
<p class="">We’d like a developer who was comfortable making architectural choices and enjoys getting their hands dirty with setting up hosted infrastructure, coding, testing and deployment.</p>
<p class=""> Most of our work is experimental, working with prototypes and iterating based on customer feedback. As such, you need to enjoy working on short cycles with plenty of ambiguity and lots of change. </p>
<p class=""> You will be deeply involved in all aspects of the startups that you are developing for, understanding their business problems and solving for them with a lean mindset.</p>
<p class="">About you</p>
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<li class="">You should be expert in one language and an aptitude for learning others (e.g. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Objective C, Clojure, Scala)</li>
<li class="">You have a deep passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess</li>
<li class="">You have a solid repertoire of front-end skills but we don’t expect you to be a designer (we have one already!) - (e.g. CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, Ajax)</li>
<li class="">You will have worked in startups and understand the challenges facing very early stage online businesses.</li>
<li class="">You will have practical experience of using lean startup methodologies and advocate building as little product as possible</li>
<li class="">You are passionate about open-source and have a keen interest in current and future trends</li>
<li class="">You are confident, driven but of humble nature</li>
<li class="">You have strong intellectual ability and great clarity of thought</li>
<li class="">You are persuasive, verbally and in writing</li>
<li class="">You enjoy working in small multi-functional teams at pace</li>
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<p class=""><span class="">You can apply here - <a href="https://forward-partners.workable.com/j/9F746F2A75"><span class="">https://forward-partners.workable.com/j/9F746F2A75</span></a> or contact <a href="mailto:matt@forwardpartners.com"><span class="">matt@forwardpartners.com</span></a> if you’d like to know more.</span></p>
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