From eric.st-jean at ecometrica.ca Tue Nov 8 02:14:07 2011 From: eric.st-jean at ecometrica.ca (=?UTF-8?B?w4lyaWMgU3QtSmVhbg==?=) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:14:07 -0500 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] job posting for a senior dev @ Ecometrica Message-ID: <4EB8825F.1040307@ecometrica.ca> Hi! I've never posted here, being based in Montr?al and active in the local python community here, so please pardon the intrusion. But i actually work in the Montr?al office of a company that's based in Edinburgh, and we're looking for at least 1 developer. I'm pasting the job description below. I'll be in Edinburgh *next week* (week of the 14th), so if anybody's interested, please do send me your cv and links and any other info asap, so that perhaps we can meet each other while i'm over there! As the description says, we're preferably looking in Montr?al, because the dev team is all here, *but* if i find someone better in Edinburgh, i can make it an Edinburgh-based position, provided you're willing to come spend 1-2 months in Montr?al when you start, and come over every now and then for 1-2 weeks. It's an awesome city, you'll love it i'm sure! Not as pretty as Edinburgh, but it has many other advantages! Ecometrica is a company of specialists and experts ingreenhouse gas (GHG) accounting ,ecosystem services , climate change policy, remote sensing and web based programming. We have unrivalled experience in the development and application of the major standards for greenhouse gas accounting and ecosystem change measurement. Our mission is to make accounting for GHG emissions and ecosystem changes accessible to all organisations, including business and government, through web-based services that distill our knowledge and experience. To get a feel for the kind of technical work we do, you can watch my presentation at Montr?al-Python 24 . We are presently on the lookout for a senior developer position, based preferably in Montr?al (Canada), but potentially in Edinburgh (Scotland) if the right candidate is located there. This is an immediate opening. Ideally, you are very-well versed in at least some of: * Python (e.g., you know how metaclasses work, or how a large list will allocate memory upon the next append) * Backend Django development (e.g., you know querysets inside out - how and when they query the database, how their internals caches work) * Linux Infrastructure (deployment, security, etc.) * Cloud environments (we?re on AWS) * Frontend development (you can do magic with javascript, HTML and CSS) * Testing, both frontend (using e.g. windmill) and backend (python unittests) * Frontend design (usability, visual design) We?re not expecting you to be an expert in all of this, but if you have a few of those points and are very smart, please apply!!! You *must*: * have a good sense of humor * work well in geographically disconnected teams * have good communications skills in english * deal well with receiving a vague problem description, and take matters in your own hands to make sure it gets solved to everybody?s satisfaction with limited resources The challenges are numerous and great, in all areas - infrastructure, backend, algorithms, database scaling (we have billions of rows in our ecosystem databases), frontend design and implementation, etc. We really need you! In terms of perks, Ecometrica is a great place to work at. Schedules are completely flexible - i want you to get things done, and if you?re not feeling it one morning, go for a bike ride and work later! If you?ve got deadlines one week and really crunch it, go skying for a couple of days the next week! How you work and solve problems is also flexible, and you?ll get a mac or linux laptop, your choice (i?m assuming you won?t be choosing windows). We provide a nice open office, unlimited coffee, tea and snacks, once-a-week team breakfast or lunch, and we?ll often open a beer or two on friday afternoon while finishing the week?s work. You?ll get to visit the other office from time to time. Good options package. And of course full health coverage. It?s like working for a startup, but a startup which is already in the black and has lots of paying clients, so much less stress - we?re here for the long run but you get to join while the company is still relatively small (less than 10 in Montr?al, 25 total). Salary and vacations will depend on your experience, but will be competitive. The team is great, too. You won?t be simply working in a dev team, you?ll also be working with amazing, fun, very bright scientists both in Montr?al and in Edinburgh. The 3 co-founders are all scientists, there are simply no PHB around to ruin your day! You can send your CV to jobs at ecometrica.ca. But even better, send us links to sites you?ve built, projects you?ve completed, repos on github or bitbucket where you?ve contributed or are the lead developer, your twitter stream, or anything else that makes sense. -- ?ric St-Jean, MEng, ing. CTO, Ecometrica eric at ecometrica.ca http://ecometrica.ca Skype/MSN/Google Talk:wiswaud +1-514-585-9939 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dougal85 at gmail.com Wed Nov 16 16:57:18 2011 From: dougal85 at gmail.com (Dougal Matthews) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:57:18 +0000 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Coffee Shop Hack Message-ID: <0E230A9F37C347F38319719910061368@gmail.com> Hey all, I mentioned a few weeks ago[1] that I would be up in Edinburgh for the weekend. I plan to do some general hacking on code in a coffee shop and welcome anybody to come along and join in. I'll be in Loudons Cafe[2] on Fountainbridge. They have a good selection drinks and free WiFi. The food also looks good but I've never had any. I will be there by 10 am on Saturday at the latest, probably closer to 9am and will be likely to hang about most of the day. I'm not sure about Sunday - but probably a similar deal. Saturday night will no doubt involve some food and beers if there are any takers (silly question right Mark?). Anyway, it would be good to see anybody there that can make it. As usual, you can contact me on my phone: 07719 780 595 to check I'm there or to join us later on in the day. If your planning to come along, it would be handy if you could give me a quick heads up. Cheers, Dougal http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edinburgh/2011-October/000290.html http://www.loudons-cafe.co.uk/ From dougal85 at gmail.com Wed Nov 16 17:01:01 2011 From: dougal85 at gmail.com (Dougal Matthews) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:01:01 +0000 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Coffee Shop Hack In-Reply-To: <0E230A9F37C347F38319719910061368@gmail.com> References: <0E230A9F37C347F38319719910061368@gmail.com> Message-ID: Oops. I just realised, I didn't make it clear that I'm talking about this coming weekend. Dougal On 16 November 2011 15:57, Dougal Matthews wrote: > Hey all, > > I mentioned a few weeks ago[1] that I would be up in Edinburgh for > the weekend. I plan to do some general hacking on code in a coffee > shop and welcome anybody to come along and join in. > > I'll be in Loudons Cafe[2] on Fountainbridge. They have a good > selection drinks and free WiFi. The food also looks good but I've > never had any. > > I will be there by 10 am on Saturday at the latest, probably closer to > 9am and will be likely to hang about most of the day. I'm not sure > about Sunday - but probably a similar deal. > > Saturday night will no doubt involve some food and beers if there are > any takers (silly question right Mark?). > > Anyway, it would be good to see anybody there that can make it. As > usual, you can contact me on my phone: 07719 780 595 to check I'm > there or to join us later on in the day. > > If your planning to come along, it would be handy if you could give me > a quick heads up. > > Cheers, > Dougal > > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edinburgh/2011-October/000290.html > http://www.loudons-cafe.co.uk/ > > > From mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk Fri Nov 18 18:25:01 2011 From: mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk (Mark Smith) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:25:01 +0000 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Coffee Shop Hack In-Reply-To: References: <0E230A9F37C347F38319719910061368@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hey Dougal, Sorry for the late reply. I'm definitely planning to come to this. I probably won't be there until nearer 11-12, though! I'm also up for some drinks in the evening. Anybody else coming along? --Mark On 16 November 2011 16:01, Dougal Matthews wrote: > Oops. I just realised, I didn't make it clear that I'm talking about this > coming weekend. > > Dougal > > On 16 November 2011 15:57, Dougal Matthews wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I mentioned a few weeks ago[1] that I would be up in Edinburgh for >> the weekend. I plan to do some general hacking on code in a coffee >> shop and welcome anybody to come along and join in. >> >> I'll be in Loudons Cafe[2] on Fountainbridge. They have a good >> selection drinks and free WiFi. The food also looks good but I've >> never had any. >> >> I will be there by 10 am on Saturday at the latest, probably closer to >> 9am and will be likely to hang about most of the day. I'm not sure >> about Sunday - but probably a similar deal. >> >> Saturday night will no doubt involve some food and beers if there are >> any takers (silly question right Mark?). >> >> Anyway, it would be good to see anybody there that can make it. As >> usual, you can contact me on my phone: 07719 780 595 to check I'm >> there or to join us later on in the day. >> >> If your planning to come along, it would be handy if you could give me >> a quick heads up. >> >> Cheers, >> Dougal >> >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edinburgh/2011-October/000290.html >> http://www.loudons-cafe.co.uk/ >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh > From mean2030 at gmail.com Fri Nov 18 18:30:14 2011 From: mean2030 at gmail.com (Mathew Taylor) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:30:14 +0000 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Coffee Shop Hack In-Reply-To: References: <0E230A9F37C347F38319719910061368@gmail.com> Message-ID: I think there's about five who've said they'll be coming along (I'll be there at least). On 18 November 2011 17:25, Mark Smith wrote: > Hey Dougal, > > Sorry for the late reply. I'm definitely planning to come to this. I > probably won't be there until nearer 11-12, though! I'm also up for > some drinks in the evening. > > Anybody else coming along? > > --Mark > > On 16 November 2011 16:01, Dougal Matthews wrote: > > Oops. I just realised, I didn't make it clear that I'm talking about this > > coming weekend. > > > > Dougal > > > > On 16 November 2011 15:57, Dougal Matthews wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I mentioned a few weeks ago[1] that I would be up in Edinburgh for > >> the weekend. I plan to do some general hacking on code in a coffee > >> shop and welcome anybody to come along and join in. > >> > >> I'll be in Loudons Cafe[2] on Fountainbridge. They have a good > >> selection drinks and free WiFi. The food also looks good but I've > >> never had any. > >> > >> I will be there by 10 am on Saturday at the latest, probably closer to > >> 9am and will be likely to hang about most of the day. I'm not sure > >> about Sunday - but probably a similar deal. > >> > >> Saturday night will no doubt involve some food and beers if there are > >> any takers (silly question right Mark?). > >> > >> Anyway, it would be good to see anybody there that can make it. As > >> usual, you can contact me on my phone: 07719 780 595 to check I'm > >> there or to join us later on in the day. > >> > >> If your planning to come along, it would be handy if you could give me > >> a quick heads up. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Dougal > >> > >> > >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edinburgh/2011-October/000290.html > >> http://www.loudons-cafe.co.uk/ > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Edinburgh mailing list > > Edinburgh at python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh > > > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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