Mention Me | London (London Bridge currently) | ONSITE
We're a small team building refer a friend solutions for a variety of online retailers. Referral is simple in concept, easy to explain to friends but complicated in practice. We think we have a great solution with some unique features but we have so much more we want to build.
We're looking for an engineer with 3+ years experience who can help take a leading role in coming up with smart solutions to help our customers tell their friends about great products. The company is growing quickly (we're looking for roles in sales, account management, QA and support as well as development) and we've taken on funding from a group of investors to help us expand.
Our stack is PHP currently using Symfony2 and based on MySQL. We run on AWS. We're keen on using the right tool for the job, so I expect that to change for certain performance intensive parts of the system as we grow.
Our salary offer is £40+k depending on the candidate, plus stock options. More detail of our job spec is here: http://goo.gl/Ex72fY, and you can check out our website at http://mention-me.com. I'd be glad to answer any questions at [email protected] too.
Mention Me - London, UK - Full Time - http://mention-me.com - £40-50k (or more, for the right person), plus options
At Mention Me we help online businesses build sophisticated and successful refer-a-friend programs. We use our technology and an A/B testing platform to help them motivate their existing customers to provide a source of new customers - referring friends, family and colleagues to products they like. We then reward both parties for a successful referral.
Business is taking off, and we're looking for a software engineer to join our team (as well as other non-technical roles too! Account management and sales are key). We're currently PHP (Symfony 2) based using ElasticSearch, AWS and MySQL, but as we collect more information, add more clients and build new features we'll certainly be changing parts of that. We've got ideas and a vision for the future but haven't got the people to make it happen. We're looking for someone who can join us to define it, build it and make it a reality.
In a nutshell, we're looking for someone smart, technical, and a get-things-done style. Chat to us if you'd like to know more.
Our email address is in our headers @ mention-me.com or in my profile and I'll gladly answer any questions.
The UK's Met Office - who provided Weather Forecasts use it for their new Weather Observations Website (WOW): http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk
It's a site that allows the public to submit weather observations from anywhere in the world. Since launching 31 days ago, we've got 1.7 million weather reports and probably spend about 0-30 seconds a day (on average) on maintenance.
App Engine has some big pains (SSL has already been mentioned) but if you don't require it (we don't), I think it's a fantastic tool.
The multiple versions, quick deployment (new build inc all testing&configuration can be completed by us in <5 min), automatic scaling and the fairly good dashboard are fantastic. Plus, our infrastructure costs in development (before heavy load testing) was $10 for 3 months of work - absolute bargain! Even after heavy load testing, it was a fraction of what a real server would have cost.
I'd say the biggest difficulty (or barrier to entry) is the datastore design. It's very easy to think you're in SQL land, and you're not. And because of that, it's very easy to burn yourself quickly. But, the design gives great scalability. We wouldn't be able to manage the size of the data we're expecting in 2 years+ in a typical environment.
So, I think it's great :)
(Disclaimer: I was part of the team at PA Consulting that built WOW)
We're a small team building refer a friend solutions for a variety of online retailers. Referral is simple in concept, easy to explain to friends but complicated in practice. We think we have a great solution with some unique features but we have so much more we want to build.
We're looking for an engineer with 3+ years experience who can help take a leading role in coming up with smart solutions to help our customers tell their friends about great products. The company is growing quickly (we're looking for roles in sales, account management, QA and support as well as development) and we've taken on funding from a group of investors to help us expand.
Our stack is PHP currently using Symfony2 and based on MySQL. We run on AWS. We're keen on using the right tool for the job, so I expect that to change for certain performance intensive parts of the system as we grow.
Our salary offer is £40+k depending on the candidate, plus stock options. More detail of our job spec is here: http://goo.gl/Ex72fY, and you can check out our website at http://mention-me.com. I'd be glad to answer any questions at [email protected] too.
Ed