I’ve been talking today with Lauren Currie from MyPolice about their search for a co-founding developer.
They’re looking for someone with the grits to take them from scratch to app. It’s a true startup chief technical officer role.
You would have the opportunity to get involved in the whole process of bringing the app to market – from ideation, prototyping, usability testing, through to choosing, implementing and scaling the right web stack for the job.
Check out the job spec. and get in touch with them before the 18th of November if you think it’s a match for you.
Looking for a developer to join a core team of an amazing project, someone that practices things like:
- MUST have experience with the Methodology (with a capital M!) of MVC development, agile release cycles, working from user stories,
- Someone that loves coding, loves to play with a range of languages such as Ruby, Phython, PHP, Java etc
- Experience with test driven design a plus – (cucumber, rspec, shoulda, etc)
- Agile-Fu skills. Understands working with user stories, iterations, release early and release often
- Live and be around Glasgow, we need you to work closely with the core team to build things quickly
- Desire to participate and collaborate with designers in generating concepts, prototyping, sketching, user testing, workshops, etc.
- Understands deployment and hosting of website, basic sys-admin-fu skills
- Experience with deploying and maintaining applications through cloud / virtualised infrastructure, with services such as Amazon AWS, RightScale, etc
We’re looking for someone who will actually come in and be part of the company, and work with us to make mypolice something great. We need someone with experience, commitment, living in Scotland and who has been through the experience of setting up or being part of a business before.
We want our developer to work with us not for us, so we can look at alternative ways of building the site. The right developer will have the freedom to innovate around the technologies used within the project. Basically our developer would be a co-director and have a large input on the shape of the site.
We want someone who works well with designers to create common understanding and language.
We’re offering an immediate start.
Salary 25 – 30K.
To apply send us a link to your portfolio, linkedin, sites you have created and we’ll go from there!
Interest for this opportunity closes on Wednesday 18th of November.
Sounds fun!
