Opendesk | London or REMOTE | Lead Developer, Front-end Developer, Full-stack / Systems Developer
https://www.opendesk.cc is an open making platform based around workspace furniture. What's different about our furniture is that it's designed to be distributed as a digital file, downloaded and made locally anywhere in the world. We have a passionate early adopter community, a global network of professional makers and customers like Nike, Etsy, Arup and Digital Ocean.
We're mainly a London-based team of ~20 people working across web design & development, product design, CAD engineering and digital manufacturing. We're looking for a:
* Lead Developer
* Front-end Developer
* Full-stack / Systems Developer
## Lead Developer -- London, £40-65k
You'll lead the development of our online systems. These include a marketing website, a fulfilment marketplace, a design publishing and distribution system and various online integrations.
You need to be full-stack unix, deep on web development with experience across multiple products / projects / stacks and languages. It's a practical, hands-on role leading the team, coding, code reviewing, writing specs, collaborating with designers, making system design and architectural decisions and generally using technology to get things done.
## Front-end Developer -- London, £20-35k
You'll develop front-end interfaces for our customer, maker and designer audiences. You need to be a strong Javascript, CSS and HTML developer able to work with Angular directives and Ruby-based CMS templates. You're comfortable refactoring to improving performance and maintainability.
## Full-stack / Systems Developer -- London or Remote, £20-40k
You're a full-stack polyglot developer happy to design and develop back-end systems, integrations and automated workflows. You'll inherit a medium sized Python web application (Pyramid, SQLAlchemy), Ruby content management system (Spontaneous.io) and a domain specific design publishing and distribution system (see https://opendesk.github.io/winnow/). Your job is to maintain and extend these systems and generally develop and improve our web applications, online systems and infrastructure.
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We're looking for talent, drive and passion for our model of open making. All these roles have solution design and decision making responsibility and everything we do is an iterative collaboration between creative technologists.
If that sounds like you then please do get in touch. To be clear: the CTO and Front-end roles must be based in London (we're in Hackney) whilst the back-end roles can be in London or remote. We're ideally looking for you to start in December or January.
If you're interested, email dev-recruitment@opendesk.cc with information about you (CV or profile links), the role you're applying for and a short personalised cover note explaining exactly why you're interested in it.
£20K for a London developer? How the fuck is someone supposed to live on £20K in London? These kind of listings should be banned. You are a sweatshop exploiting cheap labour and should be ashamed of your pathetic pay.
We're absolutely looking to attract people who are motivated by the ideas and the opportunity but we do also aim to pay relatively competitive salaries.
Which perspective do you comment from? Are you used to working in a higher paid environment?
Basically, what @okey said. Your company looks really cool, but financial security is a much stronger motivator for most people in the long term.
Look at what other people are offering in this thread, on Glassdoor, on angel.co and similar. I've never heard of a developer being paid £20k in London and I'd worry about working at a place that hired people at that rate.
You might be able to get someone fresh out of undergrad for £25k for your front-end role, but not a developer with proven skills. You might find a developer wanting to try out your lead role for £55-65k, but not someone who's already shown they can perform that role successfully.
Maybe you will get lucky and find the right people, but it's a gamble and any good people you find will probably not stay long. Anyway, I wish you luck despite my naysaying.
I'm not the original commenter, but according to glassdoor, the average salary for a senior in London is ~£61k, for front end devs ~£40k, and for generic devs ~£42k.
I think SandB0x was suggesting that if you want above average employees you may need to offer above average pay, although I'm aware that's not a literal interpretation of the comment.
Personally, I find the ideas behind Opendesk inspiring and I'd love to move to London... but the significant pay cut I'd have to take to work for you is more than I'm willing to pay. Sadly, ideas do not pay for rent or groceries.
All salaries data from my current company + [Counter] offers from other companies for people who are either joining us,leaving us or being poached. Nothing I can publish I'm afraid ^^
It ranges from junior out of college to senior with many years of experience. That only includes people who can FizzBuzz though.
IMO: I'm a firm believer that anyone with a clue who's offered 35k£ for that kind of role should just stand up, thanks the interviewer and leave.
https://www.opendesk.cc is an open making platform based around workspace furniture. What's different about our furniture is that it's designed to be distributed as a digital file, downloaded and made locally anywhere in the world. We have a passionate early adopter community, a global network of professional makers and customers like Nike, Etsy, Arup and Digital Ocean.
We're mainly a London-based team of ~20 people working across web design & development, product design, CAD engineering and digital manufacturing. We're looking for a:
* Lead Developer * Front-end Developer * Full-stack / Systems Developer
## Lead Developer -- London, £40-65k
You'll lead the development of our online systems. These include a marketing website, a fulfilment marketplace, a design publishing and distribution system and various online integrations.
You need to be full-stack unix, deep on web development with experience across multiple products / projects / stacks and languages. It's a practical, hands-on role leading the team, coding, code reviewing, writing specs, collaborating with designers, making system design and architectural decisions and generally using technology to get things done.
## Front-end Developer -- London, £20-35k
You'll develop front-end interfaces for our customer, maker and designer audiences. You need to be a strong Javascript, CSS and HTML developer able to work with Angular directives and Ruby-based CMS templates. You're comfortable refactoring to improving performance and maintainability.
## Full-stack / Systems Developer -- London or Remote, £20-40k
You're a full-stack polyglot developer happy to design and develop back-end systems, integrations and automated workflows. You'll inherit a medium sized Python web application (Pyramid, SQLAlchemy), Ruby content management system (Spontaneous.io) and a domain specific design publishing and distribution system (see https://opendesk.github.io/winnow/). Your job is to maintain and extend these systems and generally develop and improve our web applications, online systems and infrastructure.
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We're looking for talent, drive and passion for our model of open making. All these roles have solution design and decision making responsibility and everything we do is an iterative collaboration between creative technologists.
If that sounds like you then please do get in touch. To be clear: the CTO and Front-end roles must be based in London (we're in Hackney) whilst the back-end roles can be in London or remote. We're ideally looking for you to start in December or January.
If you're interested, email dev-recruitment@opendesk.cc with information about you (CV or profile links), the role you're applying for and a short personalised cover note explaining exactly why you're interested in it.