The background...

Ethicalcommunity.com is a fast growing eco-friendly and natural online marketplace run by entrepreneurial co-founders Jason Dainter and Liam Patterson. Aside from being able to find great products that do good, one of our core goals is to use technology to create a very unique and personalised shopping experience like no other, allowing customers and sellers to engage with the story and person behind each product. Our business, based in the 'silicon roundabout' in London's Old Street area has recently been seed funded by a fantastic syndicate of early stage investors, including AlertMe.com CEO and ASOS.com board member Mary Turner, founding partner at Alchemy Partners, Robert Barnes, venture investor Kelvin Au, and CEO of Orange Advertising Networks, Giuliano Stiglitz.

Our start-up has been making fast growth securing over 1,000 sellers and more than 8,000 products in our marketplace and generating a lot of press in the industry.

We need entrepreneurs, not employees.

This is a unique position for a unique individual.

We are currently recruiting a developer as our first hire who will be responsible for implementing a full rebuild of our existing technology. We are looking for entrepreneurs not employees and as a result will be delegating a large amount of control to our first hire. Responsibilities will include attending board meetings and helping input towards higher level strategic decisions as well as independently being able to keep on top of and choose the best technologies for our business to scale. You will ultimately be responsible for helping recruit, manage and inspire other developers as we continue to scale our team.

The type of person we are looking for should have a serious passion to work in a start-up environment and should be looking for a long term position to become a core part of our early team as we grow. They should be excited about the opportunity to grow a start-up from seed stage, through further rounds and beyond.

If you live, breathe and dream about code, want to work in a business with no boundaries or red tape and want to have the autonomy you need to really make an impact - then we want to hear from you!

The skills we are hunting.

Excellent geekery skills are very important to us and we've split down below the areas we feel are vital through to important or just nice to have.

The "must have's":

• Leadership or a senior role within an agile development team delivering large-scale web applications
• Extensive knowledge and passion for either Python (preferably Django) or Ruby (preferably Ruby on Rails). You will be responsible for deciding what our revamped platform is based on led by your preferences skill-set. 
• Strong interest and experience with running a continuous integration system as part of a fast growing team, with preference to work on a system with short but frequent agile deployments.
• Experience with writing code tests (ideal with tools such as Selenium)
• Ability to clearly communicate on a technical and non-technical level.
• Experience (or strong desire) to manage and inspire other developers as part of a team.
• A can-do attitude. You should be able to easily tell us at least one thing you have achieved that others told you was impossible.

The "ideally would like to have's":

• Some knowledge or ability to easily pick up the Joomla framework (PHP) which our current site is being migrated away from.
• Knowledge of Paypal's API and experience or ability to easily pick up other API heavy payment solutions.
• Ability to implement scalable and search systems such as Solr as well as experience with document based databases such as MongoDB/CouchDB.
• Basic SEO experience (particularly regarding page and server speed performance) with knowledge and interest in best practise and industry trends.
• Basic understanding of UX and UI practises and and eye for clean design.

What you'll get in return.

• Serious early stage equity options within the company, which has plans to go through further funding rounds in approximately 1 years time and already has a very competative valuation.
• A competitive salary with serious room for growth in the short term as the business scales
• A huge amount of control over the technical aspects of the business and a position that values you as part of the core early team.
• Fun on an incredible journey! start-ups are a very special type of business and frankly are not everyone's cup of organic tea. There will be lots of highs and undoubtedly some lows, but through the experience you will have a lot of fun being part of a talented entrepreneurial team who has a positive 'can do' culture. We believe playing hard is as important as working hard and some of the perks that come with being part of our team include relaxed holiday policies, beer 'o clock days, company trips to eco resorts, old school gaming nights (BFGs at the ready!). You will contribute to and help shape our culture from an early stage as our team expands.
• Days off to be creative. We offer regularly "100% time" days where we offer staff a day to work from home on any project you like. We understand that everyone in a start-up needs room to be creative (and often when the best decisions happen) and if you join us you'll be working for a company that full embraces that culture.