I can vouch for Stephen btw. He's a stand up chap (and also my business partner, in a different company)
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 at 23:47, Will Jessop <[email protected]> wrote: > Decent post! Couple of comments: > > 1) http://helpthemove.co.uk/contact/ - Google maps API key error. Happens > to everyone at some point :) > > 2) You’ve listed a lot about what you want and the technical aspects of > the job, but not really anything at all about what it’s like to work at the > helpthemove.co.uk. When you’re hiring people who are in demand > (programmers and tech people in this instance) you need to sell yourself to > them. Wage is important, but the people you want to hire have choice > (mostly). Differentiating yourself in other areas is probably a good idea. > Things I’d be interested in if I was thinking of applying: > > - Dress code (there’s only one correct answer here) > - How many other people, are they nice/fun to work with? > - Good offices? Link to photos? > - Paid leave, how much? > - Which laptop do I get, top of the line? Or PCWorld special? > - Opportunity to work from home permanently/sometimes/not at all > - Flexibility of hours > - Quality of free coffee in the office in order of excellence: open tab at > NTP/good espresso machine/cheap-ass coffee machine/none/instant > - Chair, do I get an Aeron/Humanscale or an Ikea special? > - Free drinks/snacks? > - Will you pay for any conferences? > - Chance to work on open source? > > These are just the things off the top of my head that could help you sell > yourselves, and it’s probably OK to *not* have those currently, but have an > aspiration to them. > > And remember, if you feel like meeting some of the people that you might > at some point want to be hiring you can always come alone to a meetup, > we’re very friendly! > > Will. > > > On 29 Oct 2015, at 22:41, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We’re Recruiting… > > > > Full Stack Web Developer > > > > £30-50k (based on experience) > > > > *Permanent* > > > > Are you an experienced web developer looking for a new challenge and to > be part of a fast growing, entrepreneurial company with digital at the > heart of their operations? > > > > *Company Background* > > > > Helpthemove™ Ltd provides letting agents and housing associations with a > user friendly, intuitive platform to easily manage energy, council tax and > water notifications for their fully managed property portfolio. > > > > We’re a fairly new player in the market, but we’re also the fastest > growing in our sector. In just 18 months, the team and our active customer > base has multiplied in size, several times over! > > > > You will be joining an entrepreneurial and ambitious team and will be > pivotal in helping the business grow. New ideas and opportunities mean that > the platform is ever evolving - keeping your role varied and interesting. > > > > This role will work closely with Business Development and report > directly to the Company Director. > > > > *Description* > > > > The role involves all aspects of application development from writing > server code to managing the infrastructure it will be running on. > > > > Coding tasks include the development of client facing web applications, > internal tools, APIs, managing the running of these and making > architectural decisions about how to scale the system in line with the > needs of the business. > > > > You will be managing and deploying code to a number of containerised > cloud based server environments and although specific experience with these > are not required, you should have enough knowledge of unix based systems to > be able to set up new components and fix problems. > > > > You will be advising the business on technical implications of proposed > changes and so should be good communicators with a focus on building > maintainable systems. > > > > > > *Experience with the following is essential:* > > > > - MVC web framework (Preferably Ruby on Rails) > > > > - SQL database querying and management > > > > - Object Relational Mapping system (Active Record, Object Mapper etc.) > > > > - Javascript front end development (Consuming JSON APIs, jQuery, AJAX), > > > > - Object oriented design principles > > > > - Unix environments > > > > - Automated application testing > > > > - Git > > > > - CSS Styling > > > > > > *Experience with the following is desirable:* > > > > - API Design / Development > > > > - Virtualized development environments (Vagrant) > > > > - Front end web frameworks (Backbone, EmberJS, ReactJS etc) > > > > - DevOps scripting (in bash or using tools like chef / puppet) > > > > - Working with cloud based server infrastructures > > > > - Containerised application development (Docker, Dokku) > > > > - CSS Frameworks (Bootstrap, Compass, SASS) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. 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