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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 June 2014 16:44, Thayer Prime <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thayer@team-prime.com" target="_blank">thayer@team-prime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi LRUG<br>
<br>
<tl;dr>We're helping build the team at FutureLearn<br>
(<a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/" target="_blank">https://www.futurelearn.com/</a>) and keen to hear from mid level to<br>
senior level ruby developers who are interested in a permanent<br>
role*.</tl;dr><br>
<br>
## Here's the skinny:<br>
<br>
FutureLearn is a small Open University backed startup dedicated to<br>
offering free online university level education to all. We’re a<br>
company that values its employees and so we give people plenty of<br>
flexibility and autonomy and support them in their ongoing career<br>
development. Our very talented team maintain an open and collaborative<br>
culture and so you will be expected to help shape the processes we use<br>
and the product we build.<br>
<br>
FutureLearn launched in Sep 2013 and over the coming year we will face<br>
a number of key challenges, from scaling the platform, to designing<br>
innovative social learning experiences, to providing data and analysis<br>
to our partners to help them improve learning outcomes, and you’ll be<br>
involved in solving all of these.<br>
<br>
Although the core skill we are looking for is your ability to develop<br>
with Ruby we also expect everyone on the team to be able to offer more<br>
than this, for example you may also have expertise in developing<br>
maintainable JavaScript and CSS which will enable you to work more<br>
closely with our front end developers.<br>
<br>
We also expect you to be keen to share what you already know to the<br>
rest of the team and to be eager to learn more.<br>
<br>
## Things you may have that will put you in good stead for the work needed:<br>
<br>
* Expertise with deploying large scale systems to AWS<br>
* Experience of using or building online learning environments<br>
* Experience of working in a continuous deployment environment<br>
* Experience of using data analysis to improve products<br>
* Experience of building service orientated architecture based systems<br>
* Extensive experience building software with other languages/frameworks<br>
* Expertise in producing maintainable CSS and JavaScript<br>
* A demonstrable passion for learning<br>
<br>
## Things you'll get on top of building a great product:<br>
<br>
* Salary £35-75k dependent on experience<br>
* 28 days holiday<br>
* Pension<br>
* Working with an ace collaborative team led by @joelchippindale<br>
including folks such as @czetter, @mseckington, @eightbitraptor,<br>
@knotnicky, @jcoglan and more.<br>
<br>
If you'd like to chat about it drop me an email with your CV and why<br>
you're keen on the role, and we can schedule a call to discuss it in<br>
detail and see if it's something you'd like to go forward for.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Thayer<br>
<br>
* that sounds weird. You don't have to stay FOREVER. A few years would<br>
be nice, though.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Thayer Prime<br>
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CEO & Founder<br>
Team Prime Ltd<br>
<a href="http://www.team-prime.com" target="_blank">http://www.team-prime.com</a><br>
<br>
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@Thayer<br>
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