<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>After briefly managing to have a full team, I'm now recruiting again at 38 Degrees (someone left to study an MSc after winning a scholarship!)</div><div><br></div><div>Long and hopefully detailed job advert is pasted in below, but the tl,dr is:</div><div><br></div><div>* Mid/senior level Ruby web dev</div><div>* Permanent, full-time, flexitime</div><div>* On-site (in Farringdon/Clerkenwell area)</div><div>* Salary range £40-60k</div><div>* Friendly office, interesting work, and a 'worthy' end product!</div><div><br></div><div>I'm happy to answer questions by email or in person (I should be at the meeting next week).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Denny</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>==========</div><div><br></div><div><div>Software Engineer at 38 Degrees</div><div><br></div><div>Work on the cutting edge of political campaigning with a small high-performing in-house tech team. 38 Degrees creates software that allows millions of people to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them - through the internet and on the ground. We’re recruiting innovative problem solvers who are passionate about taking our technology platform to the next level. This is an opportunity to join our team of campaigners and work together to design, build, break and reinvent the tools that help make the UK fairer, protect our environment and enhance our democracy.</div><div><br></div><div>38 Degrees is a campaigning community of millions who come together to take action and win campaigns on issues such as protecting our NHS, clamping down on tax dodging and stopping climate change. We use tools like petitions, emailing representatives, meeting our MPs in our towns and much more. Together we’ve already won some impressive victories, like protecting tax credits from government cuts and delaying the dangerous international trade-deal TTIP. And we’re just getting started!</div><div><br></div><div>Technology is core to our mission. We’ve been at the forefront of digital activism for the past 7 years. We’ve built tools for organising hundreds of simultaneous events, connecting members with their local representatives and allowing members to take over 1 million actions per month. We want to massively expand our on-the-ground organising abilities, find new ways to connect members together and expand into new channels like mobile push and Whatsapp. We need talented engineers to turn ideas into reality.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a software engineering role for someone passionate about working with a collaborative, multidisciplinary, mission-driven team. Managed by the Lead Software Engineer you’ll work on the design and implementation of our tech platform, composed of several inter-related apps and services. You’ll work closely with the rest of the team to deliver our organisational mission.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Day-to-day:</div><div><br></div><div>* Work on new features across our different apps, fix bugs and keep a watch on potential security and performance issues</div><div><br></div><div>* Work with campaigners to bring campaign ideas to life. You’ll ask questions to help people get clear on what it is they’re trying to do and the best way to achieve it.</div><div><br></div><div>* Help make decisions with the rest of the team about where to focus development for the next week or month.</div><div><br></div><div>* Collaborate directly with international partner organisations in countries around the world - making pull requests and checking out the latest commits.</div><div><br></div><div>* Take time to play and be creative with ideas for campaigning tools that you’re excited about.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Essential skills and experience</div><div><br></div><div>* Mid/senior level Ruby and at least one framework</div><div><br></div><div>* Determined and thorough - can see a project through from idea to prototyping, design, production, scaling and beyond</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This might be the job for you if you are:</div><div><br></div><div>* A quick learner</div><div><br></div><div>* A builder and a problem solver. Able to rapidly get new features and apps up and running. Willing to experiment and fail</div><div><br></div><div>* Excited about designing the whole architecture of an application or platform</div><div><br></div><div>* Excited by creating tech for new ways to engage millions of people in political action</div><div><br></div><div>* Passionate about working with a collaborative, multidisciplinary, mission-driven team!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Our stack</div><div><br></div><div>We’re in the process of open-sourcing several of our major apps, including our main action platform. You can check out what we’ve already got on GitHub (username: 38dgs), but there’s a lot more to follow.</div><div><br></div><div>Our platform is made up of several small to medium-sized apps which exchange data via webhooks and APIs. The main ones are:</div><div><br></div><div>* Speakout - petitions, email-to-target, fundraising and surveys for our members</div><div><br></div><div>* Identity - a CRM for securely keeping track of members’ details</div><div><br>* Identity Mailer - high-volume email sending platform</div><div><br></div><div>* Analytics - a high-powered SQL database which gives us daily and long term insights</div><div><br></div><div>* Organise - an organising tool for local members to meet each other and plan events</div><div><br></div><div>* Campaigns By You - run by ControlshiftLabs, this allows members to run their own campaigns</div><div><br></div><div>Most of our applications are written in Ruby (Padrino and Rails frameworks), although there are a couple of smaller ones in Node.js. We use Heroku for deployment and services like Amazon RDS to allow us to focus on features not maintenance. We’re inspired by the Twelve Factor app methodology for making scalable, easy-to-maintain and easy-to-deploy code.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Location: Farringdon, London, UK. This is not a remote-working role.</div><div><br></div><div>Salary and benefits: Competitive salary: guide £40,000 - £60,000 dependent on experience. 27 days paid annual leave plus 5 days optional unpaid leave per year. Flexible budget for professional development, coaching etc.</div><div><br></div><div>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We actively encourage applications from people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and perspectives, and we particularly welcome applications from sections of the community which are currently under represented at 38 Degrees.</div></div><div><br></div><div>==========</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ubuntu;font-size:15px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px"><span><font color="#333333">Denny de la Haye</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span><font color="#333333">Lead Software Engineer, 38 Degrees</font></span><br></p><font color="#3366ff"><a href="mailto:denny.d@38degrees.org.uk" target="_blank">denny.d@38degrees.org.uk</a></font><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(95,94,95)"><a href="http://38degrees.org.uk/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">38degrees.org.uk</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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