<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Guy<br><br></div>I'm an <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51971271/drake/cv.html">experienced Ruby/Rails developer</a> with experience of Sinatra, Node, Mongo etc who's been based in London for longer than I care to remember! I moved down to the West Country last year though to help look after an ailing parent so I've not the happy experience of using your service so far! I've been remote working and have some things to finish but aim to get back to the Big Smoke some time this year. I could start remotely fairly soon if that suited you.<br><br>I happen to be up in London Friday through Tuesday if you'd be interested to meet.<br><br></div>Kind regards<br><br></div>Richard<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><br>07952130635<br>skype: rdrake98<br><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51971271/drake/index.html" target="_blank">blog</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/rdrake98" target="_blank">twitter</a><br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 June 2015 at 16:13, Guy Westlake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guy@getlavanda.com" target="_blank">guy@getlavanda.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"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi LRUGers!</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">I'm the founder of <a href="http://www.getlavanda.com/" target="_blank">Lavanda</a>, a UK tech business that’s reimagining the way we go about our laundry. </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;line-height:14.3520002365112px;white-space:pre-wrap">I'm currently looking to expand our core engineering team and would love to chat with anyone keen to find out more. High level details below. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;line-height:12.4800004959106px;white-space:pre-wrap">If you're interested in more information, just drop me an email and I'd love to discuss in more detail.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent"><b><u>About Lavanda:</u></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:normal;background-color:transparent">Lavanda launched in December 2014 to solve the familiar pain point of washing and ironing by offering a branded on-demand laundry experience. In a single tap your laundry is collected in a matter of minutes (average collection <30mins) and conveniently returned the next day - crisp, clean and professionally finished. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">The last major innovation to hit the laundry industry was the invention of the washing machine. Now, after decades of stagnation, it's a sector ripe for disruption - and our socially progressive business model champions a new and exciting future...</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><u>Opportunity:</u></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I'm looking for <b>2 x full-stack developers</b> to join our engineering team to help build and scale our on-demand service platform. This is a unique opportunity to be an early hire in a fast-paced, high potential startup - laying the foundations for the technology stack that sits at the heart of Lavanda operations. You'll work on our web and hybrid apps as well as back-end systems, including creating and extending our APIs. </span><span style="line-height:14.3520002365112px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:14.3520002365112px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="line-height:14.3520002365112px">Basically, if</span><span style="line-height:1.53"> you've got a burning desire to build a product that can change the world <i>- we want to hear from you!</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.53;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Experience:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.53;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><ul style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3+ years experience in a similar role, delivering product and services using an Agile methodology</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Significant professional full-stack experience with a focus on API integration, test-driven development and mobile-first thinking</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our preferred languages are JavaScript and Ruby, so you should have 3+ years experience of these</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Familiarity with one or more major front-end frameworks like React.js, Angular, or Ember paired with an appreciation of the strengths and weakness for a given solution</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Familiarity with one or more major back-end frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Sinatra or Express paired with an appreciation of the strengths and weakness for a given solution</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A history of delivering robust, maintainable multi-channel applications</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Experience of strong collaboration with other engineering disciplines is essential</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A laser focus on building compelling user experiences and interaction design</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Whilst our future platform stack may vary, the MVP stack uses Meteor, MongoDB, NodeJS, so familiarity with these is prized</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.53;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Skills:</span></p><ul style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Driven to research and employ best practice approaches to your work. You should be able to demonstrate how you use continuous deployment, continuous integration, TDD/ BDD in your work practices</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You value communication with the wider team and are able to tailor your language and approach to articulate your thoughts clearly and with confidence</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Can do” attitude - when faced with a business or technical obstacle you will not run and hide. You should be able to describe some issues you have encountered, your approach to solving them and your final solution</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inquisitive - you should live and breath tech. You tinker in new tech on your side projects and are able to identify tools and techniques that could benefit your commercial project</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You're comfortable switching between tactical and strategic solutions, based on the short and long term needs of the business and the product.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.53;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Solution focus - architectural design is important, but you are able to balance this with the need to deliver quality solutions and experiences for our user groups.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Salary</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">£Competitive + equity</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Benefits</span></p><ul style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">£2,000 equipment budget on joining (to spend on anything you like/need).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Happy to accommodate remote working.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Unlimited opportunity for career progression across the business.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Highly motivated, friendly team who all believe passionately in the company’s vision and mission!</span></p></li></ul><div><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:12.4800004959106px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:12.4800004959106px;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks!</span></font></div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Guy Westlake</font></b></div><div><b style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><div><a href="http://getlavanda.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/lavanda-brand-assets/Email+signature.png" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" height="53" width="96"></a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">m: +44 (0)</font>7545 904 381</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">e: </span><a href="mailto:guy@getlavanda.com" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">guy@getlavanda.com</font></a></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">w: <a href="http://www.getlavanda.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">www.getlavanda.com</font></a></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b>Follow us: </b><a href="http://blog.getlavanda.com" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Blog</font></a> |<b> </b><a href="https://twitter.com/getlavanda" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Twitter</font></a> |<b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/getlavanda" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Facebook</font></a></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i>Read about Lavanda in <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/23/lavanda/" target="_blank">this recent TechCrunch article.</a></i></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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