LearnerShape, AI-driven workforce skills startup
Ruby on Rails developer
Full-time (part time possible for right candidate)
£45-60K (depending on experience) plus equity Central London (remote in UK for right candidate)
We are looking for a creative, ambitious Ruby on Rails web developer to help us address one of the key education problems posed by technological change: the need for workforces and individuals to retrain and learn new skills for new roles. We are an early-stage startup with substantial funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s government innovation agency.
We are developing a web-based platform that uses data science and machine learning to model individuals’ competences and target skills, then make job and learning recommendations. We are looking for a web developer with strong experience with HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and jQuery, and experience with both frontend (browser) and backend (Rails) programming. You would also interact and assist with our overall tech stack, which runs on Amazon Web Services, and includes core services implemented using Python, PostgreSQL and Flask.
We have highly experienced founders, strong partnerships, and links with academia. You would work with our small, growing development team and a UI/UX designer to develop the front end of our platform, using adaptive/responsive design for multiple devices, according to a well-defined roadmap. You must have the ability to work independently and develop your own ideas, while being a team player. You should be comfortable with a fast-moving, collegial and sometimes high-pressure startup environment.
Required skills:
-Strong experience with Ruby on Rails (our web backend service)
-Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS, the DOM and AJAX/HTTP requests
-Strong experience with JavaScript, including jQuery
-Experience with adaptive/responsive web design
-Familiarity with SQL (ideally PostgreSQL) and ActiveRecord in Rails
-Familiarity with agile and test-driven development
Job type: Full-time
Role: Python engineer
Industry: Enterprise learning and development
Compensation: £50K per annum (negotiable) plus equity
We are an early-stage startup with highly experienced founders and links with academia. Operating in the area of enterprise retraining and reskilling, we are approaching one of the key problems posed by technological change: workforces’ and individuals’ need to retrain and learn new skills for new roles. We have just received substantial funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s government innovation agency, and are looking for a Python engineer to form a key part of our small team.
Our service is a Web-based platform which uses a graph engine to model individuals’ competences and target skills, and make job and learning recommendations. We are looking for a generalist Python engineer.
The right person will be familiar with, or show the ability to learn, two key techniques: working with graph data structures in Python, and pulling data from Postgres using the SQLAlchemy object relational manager.
Compensation and benefits
Competitive salary: £50K negotiable
Equity: share options
25 days’ paid annual leave (33 days including bank holidays)
Macbook Pro
Central London office