The Richmond Group
London, United Kingdom
Richmond Group is an award winning investor and venture builder with a ground-breaking vision for the future. We started in 1999 around a kitchen table with a simple goal: to stop working in dead end jobs that we hated and do something meaningful. We have built several multi-million pound companies including a £1bn fin-tech lender in the UK. Having served over half a million customers and won many awards for being an amazing place to work, we are replicating our success into new geographies.
The Richmond Group are seeking a hands-on Technical Co-Founder to join our Edtech Incubator.The incubator is a space for great startups to develop with access to our very own vibrant working spaces, business mentors and investors (including the Richmond Group founder, James Benamor) and most importantly a brilliant and talented team of entrepreneurs.This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate developer to gain expertise in this area and startup their own business. The incubator has all the benefits of a starting up a business alone including innovation and ownership but with no financial risk and more support.
The successful candidate will be skilled in IOS or Android App development and responsible for all technology systems and infrastructure to implement the technology strategy of the business. You will be working in a fast paced environment alongside a small, competent team including a UX / UI designer and a product manager - working towards the MVP.
The ideal candidate will thrive on working on new disruptive products and will not be afraid to take calculated risks. You will have the chance to shape the company and the strategy alongside with guidance and direction from the company founder and team members.
The following would be advantageous:
Experience managing your own projects (Github experience)
Experience as a mobile app developer IOS, Android, windows phone.
App Development tools, use any language/platform you like as Visual Studio 2017 - Xamarin/Mono development, Native script, Typescript, Angular, ReactJS, React Native, Ionic, PhoneGap, Cordova.
You can use any front-end language such as HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript.
You can use any Back-end language such as NodeJS, Ruby, .NET, Python, Go.
You can use any deployment platforms: AWS, AZURE, Heroku.
Database: MongoDB, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite.
Benefits:
Competitive salary package and equity.
Be one of the co-founders of an exciting business
Flexible workspace - At Richmond Group there are no time sheets, we are paying for your results. We just ask that you keep your team members informed on when they can expect you to be available for communication and that you get the work done.
Richmond Group is an award winning investor and venture builder with a ground-breaking vision for the future. We started in 1999 around a kitchen table with a simple goal: to stop working in dead end jobs that we hated and do something meaningful. We have built several multi-million pound companies including a £1bn fin-tech lender in the UK. Having served over half a million customers and won many awards for being an amazing place to work, we are replicating our success into new geographies.
The Richmond Group are seeking a hands-on Technical Co-Founder to join our Edtech Incubator.The incubator is a space for great startups to develop with access to our very own vibrant working spaces, business mentors and investors (including the Richmond Group founder, James Benamor) and most importantly a brilliant and talented team of entrepreneurs.This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate developer to gain expertise in this area and startup their own business. The incubator has all the benefits of a starting up a business alone including innovation and ownership but with no financial risk and more support.
The successful candidate will be skilled in IOS or Android App development and responsible for all technology systems and infrastructure to implement the technology strategy of the business. You will be working in a fast paced environment alongside a small, competent team including a UX / UI designer and a product manager - working towards the MVP.
The ideal candidate will thrive on working on new disruptive products and will not be afraid to take calculated risks. You will have the chance to shape the company and the strategy alongside with guidance and direction from the company founder and team members.
The following would be advantageous:
Experience managing your own projects (Github experience)
Experience as a mobile app developer IOS, Android, windows phone.
App Development tools, use any language/platform you like as Visual Studio 2017 - Xamarin/Mono development, Native script, Typescript, Angular, ReactJS, React Native, Ionic, PhoneGap, Cordova.
You can use any front-end language such as HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript.
You can use any Back-end language such as NodeJS, Ruby, .NET, Python, Go.
You can use any deployment platforms: AWS, AZURE, Heroku.
Database: MongoDB, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite.
Benefits:
Competitive salary package and equity.
Be one of the co-founders of an exciting business
Flexible workspace - At Richmond Group there are no time sheets, we are paying for your results. We just ask that you keep your team members informed on when they can expect you to be available for communication and that you get the work done.
Fog Creek Software
anywhere
About the role
Manuscript is a purpose built project management tool built on the powerful engine of our flagship product, FogBugz, which pioneered bug tracking. Fog Creek is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic engineer to dive into both operations and development, and work on the infrastructure behind Manuscript.
On the Infrastructure and Operations (Io) team, you'll help us help us adapt to new methodologies and infrastructure in Microsoft Azure while dissecting and maintaining our products in their existing environment. Together, we'll build the future of Fog Creek's On Demand products.
In this position, you're able to work from anywhere—seriously. While our office is in New York City, over half of our employees are all over the US and the world. Currently the Io team is entirely remote. If you work at HQ, you'll be in a brand new office, carefully and thoughtfully designed to give each person both private and collaborative work spaces. If not, you'll be part of a remote-first culture where all of our meetings are online and apps and tools like Slack, Trello and Google Hangouts are the normal way to communicate. Remote workers never end up struggling to hear a meeting where everybody in the office forgot that someone was on the other end of a speakerphone.
We offer fair, competitive, and transparent pay. The range for this position is $73K to $95K and we look at factors like your experience and location to determine our offer, which comes with a comprehensive benefits package. We don't negotiate because we make our best possible offer up front—no games.
Requirements
We're looking for people with:
At least five years of computing experience, knowledge and excitement about the terrain, primarily with a Windows Server stack (Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory)
A demonstrated use of several services in Microsoft Azure, such as Virtual Machines, Application Gateways, SQL Elastic Pool
Code familiarity: whether it's contributing to our core products in C#, scripting solutions in Python or Ruby, or defining infrastructure configurations in JSON, you'll need to be comfortable with programmatic ways of solving problems. You don't need to be a developer, you need to be able to run and support code
Experience in an on-call rotation, ability to respond to critical incidents calmly
A deep understanding of the tools at an Operations Engineer's disposal, such as monitoring and logging, and knowledge of the time and place to use each one
Pragmatic problem solving abilities dealing with complex systems
Comfort wearing lots of hats in a heterogeneous environment such as: working with web servers and databases, automating tasks, deploying hardware and software, using dashboards and ssh terminals, experience with both Windows and Linux systems
An excellent command of written and spoken English. Thoughtful, empathetic communications and clear documentation are necessary for success
That being said, on this day we'd be particularly delighted to hire someone with experience in:
Hosted/Cloud migrations: you have experience restructuring features in applications and migrating to Microsoft Azure
Hashicorp tools and Infrastructure as Code
Experience with Elasticsearch, Redis, HAProxy
Physical datacenters with both bare metal and virtual hosts, particularly VMWare
Debian-based Linux systems
We want you to know
We welcome you, as you are, to work at Fog Creek. We're removing the structural barriers and daily frustrations that too many tech companies inflict on underrepresented workers. From day one, our company has been about respecting and valuing our workers, and you’ll be supported by every level of our organization when you join our team. We support workplace diversity.
Fog Creek Software, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. If you have a disability, we're more than happy to accommodate and make the interview process better for you.
What to expect when you apply
To apply, head over to apply.glitch.me and complete the required fields – keep in mind you'll need an up-to-date resume and cover letter telling us why you'd be great for the position! Specifically we'd like to hear more about your experience with hosted and cloud migrations. Our auto-response will let you know we received your application and include an optional survey. We'll use whatever information you choose to provide anonymously to help us improve diversity at Fog Creek!
After that, rest assured your application will be read by a real, live Fog Creek Engineer (so please feel free to get as technical as you like).
If we decide to move forward, we'll schedule a short call with you and a member of our technical staff to talk more about what you've done and why you're interested in the role. This interview will also be an opportunity to ask any questions you have about the role or Fog Creek in general.
The next step is a take home test. We'll use it to assess your operational skills. But don't freak out! We know you're an incredibly busy individual and will work with you to find a time where you can devote no more than a couple of hours to work on it. We'll also be available to answer any questions you may have.
Finally, we schedule a day of interviews with you and some other members of the Fog Creek team. We'll do this over video for the most part, but if you're local we'd be happy to have you to our office and provide lunch. We lean heavily toward task-based interviews to help us understand your skill level, strengths and possible weak areas. Our goal isn't to have you implement complex coding structures on a whiteboard , but to see how you think and give you problems you would actually encounter at work and then have a conversation about it.
About the role
Manuscript is a purpose built project management tool built on the powerful engine of our flagship product, FogBugz, which pioneered bug tracking. Fog Creek is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic engineer to dive into both operations and development, and work on the infrastructure behind Manuscript.
On the Infrastructure and Operations (Io) team, you'll help us help us adapt to new methodologies and infrastructure in Microsoft Azure while dissecting and maintaining our products in their existing environment. Together, we'll build the future of Fog Creek's On Demand products.
In this position, you're able to work from anywhere—seriously. While our office is in New York City, over half of our employees are all over the US and the world. Currently the Io team is entirely remote. If you work at HQ, you'll be in a brand new office, carefully and thoughtfully designed to give each person both private and collaborative work spaces. If not, you'll be part of a remote-first culture where all of our meetings are online and apps and tools like Slack, Trello and Google Hangouts are the normal way to communicate. Remote workers never end up struggling to hear a meeting where everybody in the office forgot that someone was on the other end of a speakerphone.
We offer fair, competitive, and transparent pay. The range for this position is $73K to $95K and we look at factors like your experience and location to determine our offer, which comes with a comprehensive benefits package. We don't negotiate because we make our best possible offer up front—no games.
Requirements
We're looking for people with:
At least five years of computing experience, knowledge and excitement about the terrain, primarily with a Windows Server stack (Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory)
A demonstrated use of several services in Microsoft Azure, such as Virtual Machines, Application Gateways, SQL Elastic Pool
Code familiarity: whether it's contributing to our core products in C#, scripting solutions in Python or Ruby, or defining infrastructure configurations in JSON, you'll need to be comfortable with programmatic ways of solving problems. You don't need to be a developer, you need to be able to run and support code
Experience in an on-call rotation, ability to respond to critical incidents calmly
A deep understanding of the tools at an Operations Engineer's disposal, such as monitoring and logging, and knowledge of the time and place to use each one
Pragmatic problem solving abilities dealing with complex systems
Comfort wearing lots of hats in a heterogeneous environment such as: working with web servers and databases, automating tasks, deploying hardware and software, using dashboards and ssh terminals, experience with both Windows and Linux systems
An excellent command of written and spoken English. Thoughtful, empathetic communications and clear documentation are necessary for success
That being said, on this day we'd be particularly delighted to hire someone with experience in:
Hosted/Cloud migrations: you have experience restructuring features in applications and migrating to Microsoft Azure
Hashicorp tools and Infrastructure as Code
Experience with Elasticsearch, Redis, HAProxy
Physical datacenters with both bare metal and virtual hosts, particularly VMWare
Debian-based Linux systems
We want you to know
We welcome you, as you are, to work at Fog Creek. We're removing the structural barriers and daily frustrations that too many tech companies inflict on underrepresented workers. From day one, our company has been about respecting and valuing our workers, and you’ll be supported by every level of our organization when you join our team. We support workplace diversity.
Fog Creek Software, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. If you have a disability, we're more than happy to accommodate and make the interview process better for you.
What to expect when you apply
To apply, head over to apply.glitch.me and complete the required fields – keep in mind you'll need an up-to-date resume and cover letter telling us why you'd be great for the position! Specifically we'd like to hear more about your experience with hosted and cloud migrations. Our auto-response will let you know we received your application and include an optional survey. We'll use whatever information you choose to provide anonymously to help us improve diversity at Fog Creek!
After that, rest assured your application will be read by a real, live Fog Creek Engineer (so please feel free to get as technical as you like).
If we decide to move forward, we'll schedule a short call with you and a member of our technical staff to talk more about what you've done and why you're interested in the role. This interview will also be an opportunity to ask any questions you have about the role or Fog Creek in general.
The next step is a take home test. We'll use it to assess your operational skills. But don't freak out! We know you're an incredibly busy individual and will work with you to find a time where you can devote no more than a couple of hours to work on it. We'll also be available to answer any questions you may have.
Finally, we schedule a day of interviews with you and some other members of the Fog Creek team. We'll do this over video for the most part, but if you're local we'd be happy to have you to our office and provide lunch. We lean heavily toward task-based interviews to help us understand your skill level, strengths and possible weak areas. Our goal isn't to have you implement complex coding structures on a whiteboard , but to see how you think and give you problems you would actually encounter at work and then have a conversation about it.
