<div dir="ltr">Benji asked me to come on board last year when Picfair wasn't anywhere near as successful as it is now. If I were more amenable to FTE I'd be kicking myself. It's <i>very</i> rare that you find a startup founder that has anything like a hope in hell of succeeding, but I wouldn't bet against Benji. If you want to do the whole startup CTO thing and actually build something people with use, apply!<div>
<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Benji Lanyado <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benjilanyado@gmail.com" target="_blank">benjilanyado@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello LRUGgers</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.picfair.com/" target="_blank">Picfair</a> is looking for a Ruby developer. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><b>What?</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Picfair is a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/08/picfair-raises-520k-to-take-on-getty-with-an-image-marketplace/" target="_blank">recently-funded</a> (investors include Alexis Ohanian, Reddit founder) image licensing marketplace, connecting photographers directly to buyers. I'm sorry to do this, but the analogy works: it's AirBnB for images. We are gunning for Shutterstock and Getty - they constrict supply and take the vast majority of royalties in a $6bn market. We do neither, and want to take that market from them.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Picfair is very young, but already has 50,000 <a href="https://www.picfair.com/posts/best-of-2013-picfair-picks-images-of-the-future" target="_blank">ridiculously good</a> images uploaded by 4,000 photographers in 60 different countries. We've made them thousands of pounds already, have had images licensed from website backgrounds to newspaper front pages. We've barely even started. The next few years are going to be incredibly exciting.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Who</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
I'm Benji, the founder of the company: a recovering journalist (NYT, Guardian - I still dabble, when I feel like kicking <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/30/tech-city-subsidise-code-schools-year-of-code" target="_blank">Tech City</a>) who <a href="http://www.fastcolabs.com/3013699/open-company/how-this-journalist-turned-coder-built-his-startup-for-6000" target="_blank">learnt how to code</a> in order to build the site. Yes - *gasp* - a CEO who codes. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">So far, Team Picfair are four: a brilliant and disconcertingly young junior <a href="https://www.behance.net/jcklydesign" target="_blank">designer/developer</a>; an equally brilliant and disconcertingly young <a href="https://twitter.com/MissEm_ma" target="_blank">Growth Marketer</a>; an <a href="https://www.picfair.com/users/salxhart" target="_blank">Editorial Manager </a>with the eye of a Guggenheim curator; and me. We work in a very fun <a href="https://twitter.com/benjilanyado/status/476673719059099648" target="_blank">shared workplace in Shoreditch</a>, alongside 10 other startups.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The phenomenal <a href="https://twitter.com/riklomas" target="_blank">Rik Lomas</a> has been looking after Picfair's product for the last few months, and is now off to launch something new (watch this space, you'll love it), so, we're looking for a ....</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Lead Developer</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><br></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Picfair currently has a single aim: do whatever it takes to get sh*t loads of good images onto the site, building up to a benchmark when the company's focus can swing to the other side of the market, launching an all-pronged attack on the industry incumbents.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Picfair's Lead Developer will oversee and build a variety of things that will get it there. The challenges are big - we want to be managing millions of images, uploaded from thousands of locations, very soon. We are looking for someone who is as skilled at writing code as they are at organisation: Picfair is a Get Sh*t Done company.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- 5 years min RoR experience</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Excellent code/deployment planning and management skills</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Very good Javascript (Backbone/jQuery), good front end skills, and good design/UX instinct</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Experience in scaling web apps & DBs from quite big to REALLY BIG.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Someone who is passionate about what they do. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Competitive salary & EMI scheme</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you're interested, please send over your CV and Github. Looking forward to hearing from you.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Benji Lanyado</div>
<div>Founder, <a href="http://Picfair.com" target="_blank">Picfair.com</a></div><div><a href="http://benjlabs.com/" target="_blank">benjlabs.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/benjilanyado" target="_blank">Guardian</a> | <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/search.html?query=%20BENJI%20LANYADO" target="_blank">NYT</a> | <a href="http://benjilanyado.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/starting-up-an-intro/" target="_blank">Starting up</a> | <a href="http://redditedit.com/" target="_blank">RedditEdit</a></div>
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