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Hey folks,<br>
<br>
We seemed to decide the list is happy with a few appropriate job
posts. My new employer is hiring, and I'm excited about working
here, so I thought I'd share this with the list:<br>
<br>
Rangespan is a six month old Python-oriented startup, currently
around ten people, based in Paddington Station, London.<br>
<br>
In my first two weeks here I've been impressed by the high standards
of quality and the company's vaulting ambition. We provide
high-scale e-commerce technology to create a revolutionary
marketplace between major online retailers, and a vast network of
suppliers, transacting across millions of products daily.
Development has progressed enough to start deploying and
demonstrating the reality of this vision, but is still early enough
that all of us have a substantial effect on the future of the
company.<br>
<br>
We're looking for developers at a variety of levels, with strong
computer science backgrounds, and either stellar academic record or
proven industry experience. We'd like to see the sort of high
profile that comes with expertise and a pro-active attitude: Python
core contributors, conference speakers, open source contributors
& project leaders, thoughtful agile evangelists, and scalability
experts. We'll need a data scientist, too.<br>
<br>
The sort of experience we're looking for includes:<br>
<ul>
<li>Highly fluent in Python, experienced with Django, Amazon Web
Services, MySQL and MongoDB.</li>
<li>Ability to contribute to an Agile environment, introducing new
practices, refining our process, being strong on testing and
TDD.<br>
</li>
<li>Expertise in architecting, coding & deploying RESTful web
services & web applications. </li>
<li>Automated deployments to EC2.<br>
</li>
<li>Provisioning new hardware and debugging live code.</li>
<li>Ability to attract additional world-class software developers.</li>
<li>BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent field.</li>
</ul>
The founders are ex-Amazon executives and engineers, and bring a
wealth of commercial and operational expertise. While the atmosphere
is informal and affable, the technical team is intimidatingly
proficient. We don't use recruiters, because they don't match up to
the quality of candidates we insist upon. To quote one of our
founders "It's critical to the success of our business to create the
highest quality engineering team possible."<br>
<br>
Sorry I can't be specific about salary but it would vary widely
depending on the applicant's experience. Suffice to say my personal
offer was highly competitive for any industry outside of the city
banks, plus for senior roles there would be equity involved, which I
judged to be really attractive.<br>
<br>
I'm happy to answer casual questions personally, or take receipt of
applications. Our formal job postings information is here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rangespan.com/jobs/">http://rangespan.com/jobs/</a>
but in practice I think we'd be a little flexible about roles for
the right applicant.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Jonathan
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Jonathan Hartley <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tartley@tartley.com">tartley@tartley.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tartley.com">http://tartley.com</a>
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