The uSwitch energy vertical provides
comparison products for gas and electricity. We are a small, tightly
integrated business team, currently 8 strong, blending commercial,
marketing and product development expertise. We embrace ideas from lean
product delivery in the context of an established business that drives
significant revenues.
Your Skills
- Be comfortable working with Ruby/Ruby on Rails.
- We are happy to hear from you if you are proficient in a different language and feel you have something to offer.
- Be comfortable working in a *nix environment.
- Be ready to get your hands dirty straight away working with code you
have not written, or cutting edge greenfield projects. Be comfortable
working in a team oriented environment.
Our Values
- Experience in collaborating with other team members to define product direction.
- Polyglot developer with delivery experience in a variety of different languages.
- We appreciate that awareness of different paradigms can help us solve problems in novel ways.
- Comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy and managing your own time effectively.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability of understand the
needs of the different groups of stakeholders and to translate those
needs into tasks that may or may not be technical.
- Comfortable on the full technology stack: from web facing products to backend data ingestion.
Our current technology stack
- Languages: Clojure, Ruby, HTML, Javascript, Python, R Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra, Compojure, D3
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kafka, Redis, mysql, memcached Platforms: EC2, ubuntu, vagrant, docker
- Devops: puppet, nginx, fabric, ELB, route53
Culture - What is our culture?
We empower intelligent people to make intelligent decisions. We give
them the autonomy to experiment and the flexibility to develop ways to
provide our customers a simple and personal service. We`re all extremely
proud of working here and that shows through the commitment and the
passion in every day life at uSwitch. So in a nutshell we`re just what
you`re looking for if you want to develop yourself and make a
difference.
If you`re interested in joining the team at uSwitch please send a
little something about yourself and links to your StackOverflow profile,
GitHub profile, blog, etc in your CV
