<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hello amazing people of LRUG,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Twice already you’ve made us a better place (did I mention you’re amazing?). We at Farmdrop are hiring again.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><i>tl;dr Farmdrop is making the world a better place by getting a great deal for food producers and putting great food on people’s tables in the process. We want you to join the revolution.</i></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><h2 style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.3em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">About Farmdrop</h2><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Farmdrop’s mission is to get great-quality, local, seasonal, sustainable food from farm to fork with the smallest possible number of steps. It’s a better deal for the farmers, the consumers and the environment. Our website allows customers to choose their food from over 80 different farmers and food makers. The producers get to work digging, picking, baking and catching to get the order ready; then we deliver to homes and pick-up points across London.</p><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Farmdrop believe that small is not only beautiful, but better. More efficient, more convenient, more viable and more sustainable. We want to champion better food for all, by rekindling the forgotten relationship between the makers and eaters of real food.</p></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><h2 style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.3em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Our tech team</h2><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">The team is currently composed of five full-stack developers. We have a great office in Bermondsey and we are generally colocated there. We have a kitchen and there’s always somebody cooking or baking some of the delicious produce our farmers sell. However, we’re pretty flexible in terms of time and space. What we care about is getting the job done. </p><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">We’re “agile with a small a” - we do daily standups, we have a kanban board, we pair when it makes sense to pair, and GANTT charts are verboten. We generally “do the right thing” (TDD, constant refactoring, pairing, pull requests and so on) but the need to deliver features quickly stops us from being dogmatic.</p><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Our tech stack at the moment is based around:</p><ul style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px; padding-left: 2em;"><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Ruby</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Rails</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Postgres</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">node.js</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">React.js</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">AngularJS</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Sass</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Redis</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">ElasticSearch</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Heroku</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Memcached</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Git(hub)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Rspec</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Cucumber</li></ul><div><h2 style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.3em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">About you</h2><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">As a key member of a small, fast-moving company, you will have a lot of autonomy, creativity and impact, getting involved at all levels of the product lifecycle. There’s very little in the way of donkey-work. We’re building out our website all the time and kicking off some exciting new product work, too. You will be an important part of moving our software stack forward at every level, working in a small team of capable and friendly developers who love building great software. If we can promise anything, it’s that you’ll learn a lot!</p><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">We’re open to hiring at any level, from graduate to rockstar. You don’t absolutely need to have loads of Ruby and/or Javascript experience, as long as you’re open to learning and can show experience in similar tech. What we <i>would </i>like is:</p><ul style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px; padding-left: 2em;"><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">A willingness to experiment with, and drive the adoption of, new tech that might help us (eg Docker, Raspberry Pi etc)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Someone who is comfortable taking responsibility (everyone deploys to production, everyone fixes urgent bugs)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">An ability to think creatively</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">An ability to teach, and learn from, others and to work collaboratively</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">A track record of efficiency and self-discipline</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Good verbal and written communication skills</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">An appreciation and enthusiasm for Farmdrop’s vision of making the world a slightly better place</li></ul><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Experience working in a startup would definitely be a big plus.</p></div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><h2 style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.3em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Show me the money</h2><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">We pay a competitive salary, commensurate with experience. It’s not what you’d get working for a bank, but on the plus side… you won’t be working for a bank :-)</p><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">You also get options, plus lots of nice food. And a few of us head to Southwark Park a couple of times a week for a sneaky 5k run!</p></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><h2 style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.3em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Recruitment process</h2><ul style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px; padding-left: 2em;"><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Send (a link to) your CV and anything else you might think is relevant (Github or whatevz)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">We’ll get in touch for a quick phone interview</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">If phone interview goes well, we’ll send over a simple code test</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">If the code is ok, we’ll ask you to come in for a few hours, pair with us on whatever we’re working on, go for lunch, and generally get a feel for Farmdrop.</li></ul><div><h2 style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.3em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">What, more questions?</h2><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Feel free to email sven at <a href="http://farmdrop.co.uk/">farmdrop.co.uk</a> if you want any more information. </p><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Also, see our listings page for more details: <a href="http://farmdrop.applytojob.com/apply/" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;">http://farmdrop.applytojob.com/apply/</a></p><h2 style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.3em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Recruiters</h2><p style="font-family: 'helvetica Neue', helvetica; margin: 1.2em 0px !important;">Thanks, but not thanks.</p></div><div><font face="helvetica Neue, helvetica"><br></font></div></div><div id="bloop_sign_1448624179953815040" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">S.</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">Sven Poppelmann</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">CTO - Farmdrop Limited</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">sven at <a href="http://farmdrop.co.uk">farmdrop.co.uk</a></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></body></html>