[python-uk] Can you help us build our London team?

[Zeth]

Hey Roger,

Sounds good, what's the money like?

Best Wishes,
Zeth

On 14/02/13 20:42, Roger Toor wrote:
> Hey folks
>
> We're building our London team, which will consist of 4-5 developers in
> the next few weeks. However, being based in Silicon Valley at the
> moment, I am struggling to find where suitable candidates available
> now/soon hang out.
>
> I'll be flying in this weekend, so would appreciate it if anyone on the
> list can suggest anyone appropriate that I should speak with?
>
>
> *Here's a quick overview:*
>
> 4 of us started the company in London and moved to San Francisco 1 year
> ago for the AngelPad incubator (0.5% admission rate) and subsequently
> raised one of the largest seed funding rounds in recent history, our
> investors include Google's chairman (Eric Schmidt) and 30 others of a
> similar calibre.
>
> They're flooding us with introductions to companies they're invested in
> as potential clients (Skype, Spotify, Zynga, Pinterest, Square, Palantir
> etc), now we just need help building out more of the product in addition
> to a great engineering culture.
>
> We have the resources of a much larger company and an unfair advantage
> that most never get access to, with the pace and openness to change of a
> startup. We're still only 10 strong and on the cusp of some very
> aggressive growth, so anyone joining now will shape how big business we
> become. We're already making money and looking at raising our Series B
> at the end of this year. Exciting things ahead!
>
>
> *Requirements:*
>
>   * Mid-Senior developers looking for perm / contract-to-hire in London
>   * Available immediately or in the next few weeks
>   * Strong with Python 2.x
>   * Ideally also strong with Flask, Django is okay too
>   * Google App Engine (NoSQL)
>   * Strong experience building rich web applications
>
> We're also looking for frontend skill set, which ideally would sit with
> the backend guys:
>
>   * Backbone.JS, CoffeeScript
>
>
> Engineers get the best kit (we can afford ;)) and we're big on
> continuous integration + automation.
>
> All the best,
>
> Roger Toor
>
> Co-Founder and CTO at RolePoint
>
> (415) 323 9340 | skype: rogertoor |www.rolepoint.com
> <http://www.rolepoint.com/>
>
>
>
>
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