[python-uk] Looking for help on a django project - for a front-end leaning Django developer

[Ian Makgill]

Hi Everyone,

I'm the Founder at Spend Network, and would be happy to answer any
questions about Spend Network and the role.

Best,

Ian



On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 15:58, Chris Adams <wave at chrisadams.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've been working on a fun django project since summer last year, and and
> we're looking for either a django developer with an interest in front end
> and UI, or a front end developer who would like to learn a bit more django,
> to help us build out a new product.
>
> *The problem(s) you'd be solving*
>
> We're building a product based on open data, to make public sector tending
> more effective, by aggregating the data in one place, and making it easily
> searchable, and building data products on top of it.
>
> This might be making it possible to subscribe to new tenders published by
> organisations with a history of buying from  small business or helping a
> team do cool analysis to work out the CO2 emissions you could achieve if
> London switched entirely to renewable power in its public procurement and
> so on.
>
> *The project and codebase*
>
> You would be working on a Django application, hosted on Heroku, that
> connects to a large PostgresSQL database and Elasticsearch cluster, in a
> small team, working mostly with one other developer, one data analyst and
> the founder, to deliver features, before making them available to users.
>
> When working with the front end, you'd be extending a bootstrap based
> front end, using Grunt, SCSS, and where javascript is in use, mainly jQuery
> based plugins.
>
> When working with charts and data visualisations, you'd be working with
> D3-based charts, mainly generated using Altair, a python based library for
> describing chats that can be rendered using D3 and Vega.
> Yes, there are tests and CI, and a pipeline for shipping code behind
> flags, but yes, as ever, the tests run slower than we'd like them to.
>
> You'd be working closest with the co-founder, a data analyst. and another
> python developer, who also codes django.
>
> *The team - Spend Network*
>
> Spend Network is a data analysis company dedicated to solving problems
> through the release of open data. We’re a small, friendly team that cares
> about being inclusive and doing good work. We’re open to remote working
> and flexible working. For instance, we'd love to work with someone who was
> returning to work, could only work 9-to-3, or needed a job share. We’re
> inquisitive, supportive and diligent.
>
> We work with procurement data and have the largest, open database of
> tenders in the world (you can see some of it here: [https://openopps.com)
> <https://openopps.com%5D(https://openopps.com/)>). We sell our data to
> businesses and Governments, but also make the data available for free to
> academics, journalists and activists.
>
> *More details here:*
>
>
> https://www.notion.so/Front-end-dev-job-spec-47130890c7294035862279bc5aebfffb
>
> *Getting in touch*
>
> Please send an email to Ian on contact at spendnetwork.com.
>
> Thanks folks!
>
>
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