<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;"><br></div><div id="bloop_sign_1476869969306230016" class="bloop_sign"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">TLDR: Interested in a job that combines infrastructure challenges, fashion, rails & fun problems? Email me</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">I'm looking for a ruby/rails developer to join the Dressipi backend team in London (near Oxford Circus) as a permanent member of staff.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The elevator pitch is that we're trying to solve personalization in the clothing retail industry, both online and (in the near future) in store. We're helping both retailers improve their sales and consumers find the right items for them. We've got loads of idea on how to improve that service (both for our retailers and their customers) so we're hiring an extra person to help unblock that pipelines. We're working with some big retailers (M&S, Very, Topshop etc.) so your work will impact millions of consumers and how they find and buy clothes.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">I'm not a huge fan of labels such as senior/midlevel etc. You should however</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Be comfortable with Rails, Ruby, SQL</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- have enough knowledge to know when to stop & ask for help</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In depth knowledge of rails is secondary to abstract reasoning skills.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The role is pretty varied. Depending on aptitude & interest it covers:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- the infrastructure side of things, including scaling out to more than 1 AWS region</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- exposing our functionality as APIs (either consumed by other parts of Dressipi or our partners)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- working on functionality such as our automated outfit builder, push notifications for our upcoming mobile app and so on</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We're looking for someone interested in taking ideas from their inception all the way to delivery. Typically this starts from a conversation with a product owner to nail down the problem we're trying to solve, often involves talking with our stylist team if some domain expertise is needed and of course bouncing ideas off other team members to work out the best approach.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The tech stack for our web apps is Rails, Elasticsearch, Mongodb + Mysql, deployed to AWS</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">There's a bit more info at <a href="http://dressipi.com/jobs">dressipi.com/jobs</a> but basically if you're interested email me and we'll take it from there.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Thanks for reading!</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Fred</div></div></body></html>