uSwitch.com -- London, UK. <a href="http://www.uswitch.com/" > We're a comparison website for insurance, broadband, mobiles, gas/energy providers and finance services.
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Hiring:
Senior frontend, backend devs, analysts and more - for the full list of vacancies see <a href="http://www.uswitch.com/vacancies/" >
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Tech stack:
Backend: nginx, puppet, capistrano, Ruby (Sinatra and RoR), Clojure, MySQL
Frontend: Responsive HTML5, JS / CoffeeScript, HAML, SASS with Compass and our internal framework
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About us:
* Regular dev catchups across all teams / show &amp; tell to share experience
* We host / sponsor / attend hackathons and conferences
* We maintain healthy work/life balance - no extra long hours, weekends are for you to relax after a Friday beer in the office / local pub
* We deploy to production multiple times a day
* We'll give you the tools you need to do your job (Macbook or other machine of your choice, whatever software you need) and help you progress (budget for conferences, books and time to learn new tech)
* Flexibility in the tech choice
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About you:
* Able to own a problem and work with others (in your team and others in the business) towards a solution
* You're open-minded and flexible - you can pick up new skills / languages
* You can work well in a team environment (occasional remote work is ok, but we're mostly in the office)
* Comfortable with basic devops tasks
* Skilled at table tennis or table football (optional)
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Next steps:
Contact me directly - REDACTED_EMAIL - I'm a developer in one of the teams you could be joining. Tell me about yourself (whatever you think represents you best) and ideally let's meet up - will give you a tour of our new London Bridge office and talk about the projects we've been working on.
As part of our recruitment process, you'll have to complete a coding exercise and later come for face to face interviews.
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