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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by floydy50 »

London, England. Lead developer. Contact Ben@barpass.co.uk

Who are we

Bar Pass Ltd, founded by two finance professionals with experience in providing technology within the hospitality industry, growing and advising young companies through from concept to profit. What we are doing Developing a mobile application that provides customers in a bar the ability to browse the menu, order and pay for food and drinks through their mobile device.

Where we are as a company

We are fully funded up to release of V1 and have a number of people looking to back us after this point. We have had a several positive meetings with target chains of bars, that are keen on our solution and see it as a higher quality vision than our competition. We are well connected within our target market and have some very senior industry players keen to take active board positions.

Who you are

You will be working full time as CTO, working at our offices in London. You will be responsible for defining and implementing our web and mobile strategy. You will eventually have the opportunity to form and lead a larger team. During early stages you may be required to manage contractors to help build out some parts of our solution. Core requirements: > Comfortable being the sole internal developer working on a new product from the ground up > Experience with both back-end API development and front-end mobile application development > Back-end architecture and RESTful API design & development to support consumer iOS, Android and Web apps. > Work on integration with payment processors and social networks > Experience building solutions which are fast, reliable, flexible and scalable > Experience building for iOS in Objective-C > Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM and TDD practices > Continuous Integration, cloud based deployment and other DevOps/SysOps understanding

What we offer

Dependant on experience we offer a competitive salary and equity. The chance to get involved with a great business from the beginning and decide what we offer to our next employees.

Contact Ben@barpass.co.uk

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by klaut »

joelg87 wrote: post #189

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 10 people in the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney). I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 500,000 users and are on a $1M+ annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we are looking to hit the millions of users in 2013. We've consistently grown 15% MoM for the last year and…

I sent you an email last month (as a response to your post in this thread) but never got a reply back. not even a "no, thank you".

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by krmmalik »

shanelja wrote: post #297
krmmalik wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt it's a typo. Junior developers are starting on very low rates in the UK these days. I met a mid-level PHP Developer working for a major firm in the UK a few weeks ago, and he was earning £14k!

I was working as a Junior developer for my first company and already had 2 years of experience in freelance work aned as a hobbyist really. I was paid £4,800/a or, £400 per month (which after national insurance etc was a paltry £370.) After I left that job (mostly due to the money, I'm not a greedy person, but my quality of life was ridiculously low) I came to my current job, where in I earn in the region of £22k. Wh…

Oh my god. That is horrific! I recently did some contract work and got conned in a similar way. It's amazing how much people in the UK still get away with this kind of behaviour. I'm really glad you managed to find some work where you're paid better. If you're ever interested in additional freelance work, do let me know. I do business consulting/digital marketing work and occasionally have a requirement to outsource work to a developer. I have a project that needs quoting on today in fact although I kind of pegged another developer for it, but he hasnt confirmed his availability with me just yet. No promises, but if interested, let's speak.

My contact details are on my virtual business card which is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by krmmalik »

thr0awAY1 wrote: post #303
shanelja wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was working as a Junior developer for my first company and already had 2 years of experience in freelance work aned as a hobbyist really. I was paid £4,800/a or, £400 per month (which after national insurance etc was a paltry £370.) After I left that job (mostly due to the money, I'm not a greedy person, but my quality of life was ridiculously low) I came to my current job, where in I earn in the region of £22k. Wh…

4800 per annum is not even legal minimum wage for full-time work in the UK, unless you're talking about a very long time ago and not adjusting for inflation. So if that is what you were really paid, you should not only have quit, but reported your employer to the authorities. My first IT job in the 1990s was 15K per annum, and that was considered low at the time (living in Edinburgh, not as expensive as London but st…

I know someone outside of London that's getting paid £600/month as a sort of apprenticeship. But it's honestly disgusting. He's working the developer silly hours, making him work weekends and evenings and keeping him in the office til late some day. I was conned into joining this business (i didnt realise it was a glorified cowboy operation) and just quit with them this week. It's truly appalling what people get away with. And on top of that, there was so much hubris, and a lack of respect for the team.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by krmmalik »

thr0awAY1 wrote: post #155
krmmalik wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt it's a typo. Junior developers are starting on very low rates in the UK these days. I met a mid-level PHP Developer working for a major firm in the UK a few weeks ago, and he was earning £14k!

That's shocking, I didn't realize things had gotten so bad there. Glad I left when I did.

There seems to be a stark polarisation. There's a whole host of businesses that have become extremely cagey and fearful due to the recession and their lack of ability to cope, and are "coping" by trampling on their own team. On the flipside, there are however a few exceptional businesses as well, that are treating their team well both financially and emotionally, but the ratio of fearful businesses to the exceptional ones is something like 9:1 <-- don't quote me on this, i'm making a random figure up based on my observation, and the reality is probably quite different, but hopefully you get the picture of what i'm saying.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by ggregl »

Botify, Paris (France) or REMOTE (could be anywhere where you feel the best): Platform Engineer, Data/Software Engineer

Build efficient distributed systems to crunch data from our in-house crawler and the logs from the users. Deliver nice charts and meaningful metrics to improve the ranking and the way people visit a site.

Who we are (http://www.botify.com/team/) and who are we looking for (http://www.botify.com/jobs/).

We value creativity, fun, and simplicity. We love when computers work for us! Technologies: python, scala, C, haskell, clojure, go... spark, Amazon AWS, puppet, django, d3.js and what makes us efficient and things simple and clear.

An example of in-house development: http://labs.botify.com/blog/introducing-elevator/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by jlebar »

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #154
jlebar wrote: post #27

San Francisco / Mountain View / London / Paris / Tokyo / Taipei / Auckland / Toronto / Vancouver / or REMOTE Mozilla is hiring! Interns, developers, PMs, marketers, you name it. http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/

Gaaah, when did you post these!? I already found an internship for the summer, but I would have adored working on Rust!

Don't forget about us for next year!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)

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Post by jlebar »

NonEUCitizen wrote: post #294
jlebar wrote: post #27

San Francisco / Mountain View / London / Paris / Tokyo / Taipei / Auckland / Toronto / Vancouver / or REMOTE Mozilla is hiring! Interns, developers, PMs, marketers, you name it. http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/

Are you hiring in Berlin ?

AFAIK our Berlin office is not fully armed and operational just yet, but we often hire people to work remotely.
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