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We're recruiting in London, not quite a startup but a Research & Development lab for Yell with a startup vibe. It looks like we might soon be heavy on great fr
by buro9 17y ago
We're recruiting in London, not quite a startup but a Research & Development lab for Yell with a startup vibe.
It looks like we might soon be heavy on great front-end people and that our hiring of back-end people is lagging, so we're becoming desperate for innovative people who know JVM related tech forwards and backwards (J2EE, Spring, Groovy, Clojure, etc) and who can use that to green-field from scratch as well as integrate with brown-field (a lot of data we need is still in legacy systems, though we have a roadmap to move it somewhere sane).
We are still looking for a few more people on the front-end. Aside from people who know JavaScript intimately (you'll have a tough quiz to pass during interview), we're also looking for someone who has been inside Android for a while and can untap the potential there. If you have C/C++ knowledge too then all the better as we're keeping our eye on Google's NaCl. Any OpenGL experience would be nice too but certainly isn't high on our current priorities.
Finally we need a designer, one who really understands the limitations of the different devices and yet can turn around flawless and highly communicative work quicker than we can bring it to life with tech.
For all of these roles whilst experience is necessary what we're really looking for is a deep passion for what you do and a real lust for learning and applying what you learn.
Drop me a line at david.kitchen@yelllabs.com and I'll ensure we get back in touch.
- tomjen3 17y agoSorry, but that post is far too filled with buzzwords to be of any use here. In addition, nobody knows J2EE inside and out, it is far too big.
- buro9 17y agoI know, it's terrible. Worse still, IBM seem to have had a good time in here and we're having to work with Websphere ESB and Portal. One of the key assets is the data and whilst we're free to persist new data however we choose the legacy stuff is currently locked in those systems and so we are hiring to help free it. Our front end innovation and what we do for small business is where we're focused, but that back end has to be tamed for us to get anything significant done. The legacy stuff is why we need people with silly amounts of Java stuff, whereas the front-end is really mobile and device driven.
- olliesaunders 17y agoI doubt this is anything like a startup at all. But, then again, the OP didn't specify whether it has to be a startup or not.
- buro9 17y agoIn that there are considerable shares and a do or die commitment, no it's not. It is a R&D lab after all, failing is perfectly acceptable so long as we can learn from that and apply that to what else we do. Failing isn't going to be terminal, so of course a research entity isn't the same as a startup.