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Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?

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Post by olliesaunders »

gordonguthrie wrote: post #18
klaut wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi. i am currently based in scotland and looking to move to London. would be very interested to start to work for a startup, specially if their founders are hanging on HN :)

Klaut There is a strong start-up scene in Scotland... http://techmeetup.co.uk/blog/ We even have companies that actually use FP in products (Erlang) and some Haskell hackers... The scene here sent half a dozen people to StartUp School and a couple of teams got interviews at YCombinator - and we've had three teams at Seedcamp (including 1 winner) so you don't need to move to London... Come along or ping me on gordon A…

This is very interesting to me. I'm an aspiring Haskeller considering moving from London. Can you be more specific than Scotland? There seems to be Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Glasgow on that link you provided. Are they all equally good?

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?

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Post by buro9 »

olliesaunders wrote: post #40
buro9 wrote: post #12

We're recruiting in London, not quite a startup but a Research & Development lab for Yell with a startup vibe. It looks like we might soon be heavy on great front-end people and that our hiring of back-end people is lagging, so we're becoming desperate for innovative people who know JVM related tech forwards and backwards (J2EE, Spring, Groovy, Clojure, etc) and who can use that to green-field from scratch as well as…

I doubt this is anything like a startup at all. But, then again, the OP didn't specify whether it has to be a startup or not.

In that there are considerable shares and a do or die commitment, no it's not.

It is a R&D lab after all, failing is perfectly acceptable so long as we can learn from that and apply that to what else we do. Failing isn't going to be terminal, so of course a research entity isn't the same as a startup.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?

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Post by sebi »

Luyt wrote: post #34
sebi wrote: post #16

Senior Rails Dev needed in Amsterdam/Utrecht. They are building a web app, predicting future energy scenarios based on your assumptions - like how co2 emission, electricity and heating cost, dependence on foreign countries will change. I'm leaving this great team and project for my own venture. http://www.workingwithrails.com/opportunity/2450 Technologies: Rails 2.3, Ruby 1.9, Haml/Sass, Rspec, Git, jQuery

But why throw a barrier in the way? That site won't you let review the job board without prior registration.

Sorry. didn't realize. Here's the ad:

Benefits: Laptop / computer, Telecommuting, Flexible hours

Very competitive benefits. But of course, it depends on the package of your choosing.

The Energy Transition Model is a complex web application in which users can build their own 'future energy scenario'. It tries to answer detailed questions such as: how much less CO2 will this or that country emit when it builds a Nuclear Power Plant, or wind mill parcs? What much will it cost? And how dependent will you be on foreign companies?

For this end, we are building an extended Ruby on Rails app, with a rich interface which shows complex charts, using no flash. (instead we use jQuery and Canvas.) To make live easy for ourselves, we use HAML, SASS and Git.

You will work in a small company of 9 dedicated employees.

Salary is well above average. Expats are also very welcome.

dennis.schoenmakers at quintel.com Phone: +31 - 6 109 65 293

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?

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Post by buro9 »

tomjen3 wrote: post #30
buro9 wrote: post #12

We're recruiting in London, not quite a startup but a Research & Development lab for Yell with a startup vibe. It looks like we might soon be heavy on great front-end people and that our hiring of back-end people is lagging, so we're becoming desperate for innovative people who know JVM related tech forwards and backwards (J2EE, Spring, Groovy, Clojure, etc) and who can use that to green-field from scratch as well as…

Sorry, but that post is far too filled with buzzwords to be of any use here. In addition, nobody knows J2EE inside and out, it is far too big.

I know, it's terrible. Worse still, IBM seem to have had a good time in here and we're having to work with Websphere ESB and Portal. One of the key assets is the data and whilst we're free to persist new data however we choose the legacy stuff is currently locked in those systems and so we are hiring to help free it.

Our front end innovation and what we do for small business is where we're focused, but that back end has to be tamed for us to get anything significant done. The legacy stuff is why we need people with silly amounts of Java stuff, whereas the front-end is really mobile and device driven.

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