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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015) by squirrel on Thursday January 01, 2015 @12:13PM (#8823471)
London UK - Osper - http://osper.com

We provide a real prepaid debit card for young people, aged 8-18, so they can make independent decisions with money: online, in shops, at cash machines, & abroad. Thousands of kids have already signed up to our service.

But we not only help young people buy Legos and save for bicycles - we are building an awesome technology team that eliminates legacy code, keeps the bug rate tiny, and stays small & joyful. We are doing this by adopting techniques like pair programming, test-driven development, continuous deployment, and microservices. You can read more about our plan to be awesome on our tech blog http://tech.osper.io. We want to meet and work with smart technical folks of all varieties - from server-side devs to sysadmins, mobile coders to testers, security analysts to data crunchers - but especially front-end experts who like mobile app development of any kind (we happen to use PhoneGap/Cordova but don't expect candidates to know this framework).

We are willing to arrange relocation to London for the right candidate. Sorry, we're not ready to take on remote team members at this stage.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015) by andyskipper on Thursday January 01, 2015 @02:08PM (#8823849)
Can really vouch for Osper - what Squirrel and the team have built so far is technically excellent, with much more to come. Also, all incredibly nice people to work with. Well worth a chat.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015) by squirrel on Saturday January 03, 2015 @11:34AM (#8831121)
Thanks for the kind words Andy!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015) by hueking on Friday January 02, 2015 @07:23PM (#8829335)
I've always was hesitative in moving to London. Totally unrelated question to this offer. Can you live in London on developers pay on the same standard as in Bristol?

I'm a foreigner and until now I lived only in South Wales and Bristol.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015) by squirrel on Saturday January 03, 2015 @11:37AM (#8831134)
Nice to hear from you hueking. Don't have any direct experience with Bristol but I know developers who have moved from there to London and had a good experience, with cost of living offset by a proportionally higher salary and a wide variety of neighbourhoods in London to choose from. Feel free to get in touch (see my profile for email) if you are interested in exploring further.