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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hello there LRUG</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Quick post for Thanksgiving: We’re looking for smart, talented, creative Ruby developers here at Zopa, the world’s first and Europe’s largest peer-to-peer lender.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We’ve got a number of interesting roles, including a full-stack role in our Labs team (think greenfield projects) and a number of more specialised in-depth core platform Ruby roles.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you’re interested in making money fair for consumers, joining one of London’s most promising high growth companies, and working in a super smart and creative technology team, we’d
love to hear from you.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Team Zopa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">PS: We’ll also be at the next LRUG and look forward to the CodeWarsJam (perhaps we can convince our very own
<a href="http://www.codewars.com/users/zvytas" target="_blank">http://www.codewars.com/users/zvytas</a> to come along, though he’s more of a C# guy)!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*** About our technology team ***</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are a team of designers, front end developers, backend developers, researchers and product managers, collaborating with each other and our product owners and data scientists. We
work on small and big projects, from simple but effective improvements to the core Zopa platform to new product launches. We ship every day and even big projects get released quickly, small bit by small bit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are extremely proud of the culture we nurture at Zopa. We often like to pair, especially for complex problems, and all of us care hugely about the good quality of our work.</span><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We believe in the benefits of collaboration and shared ownership. We’re also passionate about open-source technology which we will continue to employ where possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Zopa platform can be divided up into a number of layers. Our presentation/customer facing layer is mostly written in Ruby (Sinatra) and our back end in .NET, SQL and Python –
but we use the right technology for the job.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Joel Test Score: 10 out of 12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*** More about Zopa ***</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We started the peer-to-peer lending industry in 2005, and are the largest peer-to-peer lending company in Europe. By delivering better value than traditional banks, we are radically
transforming the way consumers borrow and save money. More than 57,000 people have lent over £1.2 billion through Zopa to over 120,000 borrowers.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In the last 15 months our growth has exploded (happy to tell you more about how we achieved this!) and we’ve got big plans for the future. In 2016 we expect to facilitate over £1bn
in peer-to-peer loans and invest significantly in our brand, so you’ll likely have heard of Zopa by the end of next year.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We're venture-backed to the tune of £35m, disbursing about £60m in loans per month (i.e. making significant revenue), and have a rapidly growing team who draw experience from a range
of industries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Even more info on
<a href="https://www.zopa.com/working-at-zopa/" target="_blank">https://www.zopa.com/working-at-zopa/</a> and
<a href="http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/Zopa">http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/Zopa</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> – thanks for reading all the way down here
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