Full Stack Developer
Location: GB, , lo
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Internet
Function: Engineering
Salary range: 40000-50000
Company profile: We make tools for startups. Currently building Hire my Friend, Wrangler, Attending, Linkydink. Based in London and proud of it!
Description: We're looking for an experienced full stack engineer to come and join our team in London and play a big part in building one of our flagship products, Hire my Friend. Our ideal candidate has 3+ years hands-on experience shipping useful web products.Hire my Friend is a digital headhunting service with a big mission - to fundamentally transform the way the recruiting and HR industry works in favour of candidates. We put our users in complete control of who can see their data and we carefully vet companies that use our service. We then use technology to replace the worst aspect of the existing recruitment stack - the recruiter. We have over 15,000 candidates using our service today and thousands of companies that have requested access.We’ve recently rebuilt the entire product from the ground up and started generating our first income from companies. We are about to rebrand and relaunch with a new name, so you’ll be joining at an exciting time for the product with a clean new codebase and an ambitious growth roadmap. We’re currently self funded, but expect to raise money in 2015 to achieve our growth targets.This job is for you if you are passionate about using technology to help other people in our industry build great teams. It should be an opportunity to push your own development skills forward and make a big difference to a disruptive new product. Makeshift already has has a staff of 10 (75% technical) so you’ll be working alongside talented creative product designers and engineers from day one.From a technical perspective, we want someone who has demonstrable experience of rapidly evaluating and learning new technologies. Fitting our current stack come second to fitting our culture of innovation. Having said that, it will really help if you can write Ruby code to a high standard, good knowledge of Rails and have experience working with technologies like elasticsearch. A knowledge of front end engineering practices is also important as this is a full stack position, but you don’t need to be a designer.From a process perspective we’d expect you to have broad experience of a range of development techniques, and be confident introducing new ones to less experienced colleagues. At Makeshift we use a hybrid approach, built on a foundation of agile and lean methodologies. We try and pair program as much as possible, and we give engineers lots of freedom to solve problems themselves. This role will require you to be in our London studio regularly, but part time remote work is definitely possible.From a commercial perspective we’d love it if you have experience working on marketplace businesses that match people together, for example dating tech. We don’t expect you to have experience in the recruitment sector because, frankly, the more we learn about this space, the more we think the answers lie outside the industry. This role won’t be directly customer facing, but an empathy with customers hiring in tech companies, and candidates trying to dodge recruiter bullets will help you do your job better, faster.
Requirements: Must haves:Excellent full stack programming skills (RoR, HTML, CSS, JS) and ability to learn new languages quicklyHappy in a very flexible work environmentNice to have:An interest in product and UXMarketplace tech / dating tech experience
Benefits: Amazing product with huge potential to change how businesses build teamsExperienced colleagues already in place in product, marketing and engineering roles£50k salary, negotiable depending on experienceGenerous/flexible training allowanceOptions packagePick your own setupNice studio in Old Street, London, possible part-time remote  
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