From harry.percival at gmail.com Wed Jul 1 07:07:13 2020 From: harry.percival at gmail.com (Harry Percival) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 12:07:13 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] who wants to hire my friend Ian? Message-ID: Ian (cc'd, ian at ushills.co.uk) has been a hobbyist developer for years but has decided it's time to make the transition to being a proper nerd. He's too embarrassed to say it, but he has a substantial amount of self-taught experience, mostly Python/Linux. You can see a selection at https://www.ushills.co.uk/ I reckon whoever snaps him up will be extremely lucky! Birmingham or commutable (London, Manchester... I mean is anyone commuting these days anyway?) all the best! Harry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From meredydd at anvil.works Fri Jul 3 09:26:49 2020 From: meredydd at anvil.works (Meredydd Luff) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 14:26:49 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Anvil are hiring Developer Advocates! Message-ID: Hi all, We're hiring again! Anvil (https://anvil.works) is a platform for full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. That's Python running in the browser, Python on the server - even a Python-flavoured database - and a drag'n'drop designer with a Python UI framework. No more JS frameworks: we're trying to fix web development. We're looking for Developer Advocates: developers with great communication skills, to show people how to build awesome things with Anvil. You?ll be writing how-to guides, blog posts and tutorials, building example apps, live-coding at conferences (when those resume)...and then helping us work out how to make Anvil even better. It's rewarding work - developers love meeting Anvil (our booth always gets mobbed at conferences). We're a small startup, so you can expect a lot of autonomy, huge impact, and meaningful equity; but we're humans first and entrepreneurs second, so you can also expect flexible working and sensible work/life balance. (We also welcome part-time applicants in all roles.) We're based in Cambridge, but we're now hiring semi-remote - that's anyone who would be OK working from our office ~1 day a week (or equivalent) once things get a bit safer. For more details, to read what it's like to work here, or to apply, go to: https://anvil.works/jobs Meredydd -- Meredydd Luff Founder - https://anvil.works Tel: +1 650-468-0667 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.grandi at gmail.com Mon Jul 6 12:53:33 2020 From: a.grandi at gmail.com (a.grandi at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 18:53:33 +0200 Subject: [python-uk] LaterPay is looking for a remote Python backend developer Message-ID: Hello folks! The company I've been working for the last year and a half is looking for another Python backend developer. TL/DR: - position is 100% remote - pay is up to 75.000?/year - deadline for applications: July 15th - strong advice: please include a cover letter for more information and to apply directly, please visit this address https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/laterpay-backend-software-engineer-4 -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer Website: https://www.andreagrandi.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreagrandi GitHub: https://github.com/andreagrandi PGP: https://www.andreagrandi.it/2240402E.asc From bcristofol at gmail.com Mon Jul 6 16:24:26 2020 From: bcristofol at gmail.com (Bibiana Cristofol Amat) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 21:24:26 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] Anvil are hiring Developer Advocates! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, Thanks for your email. I'm not looking for a job right now. Kind regards, Bibiana On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 14:27, Meredydd Luff wrote: > Hi all, > > We're hiring again! Anvil (https://anvil.works) is a platform for > full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. That's Python running in the > browser, Python on the server - even a Python-flavoured database - and a > drag'n'drop designer with a Python UI framework. No more JS frameworks: > we're trying to fix web development. > > We're looking for Developer Advocates: developers with great communication > skills, to show people how to build awesome things with Anvil. You?ll be > writing how-to guides, blog posts and tutorials, building example apps, > live-coding at conferences (when those resume)...and then helping us work > out how to make Anvil even better. > > It's rewarding work - developers love meeting Anvil (our booth always gets > mobbed at conferences). We're a small startup, so you can expect a lot of > autonomy, huge impact, and meaningful equity; but we're humans first and > entrepreneurs second, so you can also expect flexible working and sensible > work/life balance. (We also welcome part-time applicants in all roles.) > > We're based in Cambridge, but we're now hiring semi-remote - that's anyone > who would be OK working from our office ~1 day a week (or equivalent) once > things get a bit safer. > > For more details, to read what it's like to work here, or to apply, go to: > https://anvil.works/jobs > > Meredydd > -- > Meredydd Luff > Founder - https://anvil.works > > Tel: +1 650-468-0667 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harry.percival at gmail.com Sat Jul 18 15:40:04 2020 From: harry.percival at gmail.com (Harry Percival) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:40:04 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] who wants to hire my friend Ian? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: hang on a minute, it's been like, more than 3 days, and I find out none of you has hired Ian yet? are you mad? this is a self-taught programmer we're talking about here! these people are some of the most motivated, hardworking, innovative people in the industry. and he's making a career switch! so you can have someone with actual experience of working in a real job, a proper grown-up, but for almost-as-cheap as a 20-year old who struggles to get out of bed before 10:30am. this man is like gold dust people! snap him up! On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, 12:07 Harry Percival, wrote: > Ian (cc'd, ian at ushills.co.uk) has been a hobbyist developer for years but > has decided it's time to make the transition to being a proper nerd. He's > too embarrassed to say it, but he has a substantial amount of self-taught > experience, mostly Python/Linux. You can see a selection at > https://www.ushills.co.uk/ > > I reckon whoever snaps him up will be extremely lucky! Birmingham or > commutable (London, Manchester... I mean is anyone commuting these days > anyway?) > > all the best! > Harry > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdoepp at gmail.com Sat Jul 18 17:37:09 2020 From: jdoepp at gmail.com (James Doepp) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:37:09 -0400 Subject: [python-uk] who wants to hire my friend Ian? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm also a self-taught programmer, and I've been looking unsuccessfully for a developer job in the UK for over a year now (living in the US, UK/US dual citizen). I think what makes it difficult in my situation (besides being overseas) is that I've been working as the only Python developer in the same company for 8 years - for senior roles companies want developers who have had experience within a Python team, and 8 years experience is too long to be considered for other roles. Jim On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 15:40, Harry Percival wrote: > hang on a minute, it's been like, more than 3 days, and I find out none of > you has hired Ian yet? are you mad? this is a self-taught programmer we're > talking about here! these people are some of the most motivated, > hardworking, innovative people in the industry. > > and he's making a career switch! so you can have someone with actual > experience of working in a real job, a proper grown-up, but for > almost-as-cheap as a 20-year old who struggles to get out of bed before > 10:30am. > > this man is like gold dust people! snap him up! > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, 12:07 Harry Percival, > wrote: > >> Ian (cc'd, ian at ushills.co.uk) has been a hobbyist developer for years >> but has decided it's time to make the transition to being a proper nerd. >> He's too embarrassed to say it, but he has a substantial amount of >> self-taught experience, mostly Python/Linux. You can see a selection at >> https://www.ushills.co.uk/ >> >> I reckon whoever snaps him up will be extremely lucky! Birmingham or >> commutable (London, Manchester... I mean is anyone commuting these days >> anyway?) >> >> all the best! >> Harry >> > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdoepp at gmail.com Sat Jul 18 18:56:28 2020 From: jdoepp at gmail.com (James Doepp) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:56:28 -0400 Subject: [python-uk] who wants to hire my friend Ian? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm still looking, so if anyone has any leads please let me know. My LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdoepp/. On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 15:40, Harry Percival wrote: > hang on a minute, it's been like, more than 3 days, and I find out none of > you has hired Ian yet? are you mad? this is a self-taught programmer we're > talking about here! these people are some of the most motivated, > hardworking, innovative people in the industry. > > and he's making a career switch! so you can have someone with actual > experience of working in a real job, a proper grown-up, but for > almost-as-cheap as a 20-year old who struggles to get out of bed before > 10:30am. > > this man is like gold dust people! snap him up! > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, 12:07 Harry Percival, > wrote: > >> Ian (cc'd, ian at ushills.co.uk) has been a hobbyist developer for years >> but has decided it's time to make the transition to being a proper nerd. >> He's too embarrassed to say it, but he has a substantial amount of >> self-taught experience, mostly Python/Linux. You can see a selection at >> https://www.ushills.co.uk/ >> >> I reckon whoever snaps him up will be extremely lucky! Birmingham or >> commutable (London, Manchester... I mean is anyone commuting these days >> anyway?) >> >> all the best! >> Harry >> > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andy at reportlab.com Sun Jul 19 04:45:48 2020 From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 09:45:48 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] who wants to hire my friend Ian? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sadly I fear it is a very tough time in the market for anyone looking for work now. Anyone else finding the same? Half our business is consulting - writing reports for people - and to be honest just about every client who had a project planned found their own businesses grinding to a halt in April and May, and put the brakes on. Large organisations almost uniformly started out with an attitude of "let's use this quiet time and improve our systems", and it morphed into "all projects on hold until normality returns". And, if anyone needs manpower, there's a whole year's worth of computer science grads just come on the market, as well as furloughed IT staff volunteering for other projects. Hopefully it will work itself out in a couple of months... - Andy