Open Source E-Commerce Champion (Senior Rails Developer) at Lost My Name (London, UK) (allows remote)
Job Description
Lost My Name is growing up. We’ve secured Series A funding, led by Google Ventures, and we’re gearing up to make a lot of children happy when they receive their very own personalised Lost My Name book this Christmas.
We’re a zero inventory company. Unlike most e-commerce businesses, we make each book on demand as soon as our customers complete a purchase. This approach isn’t unique to Lostmy.name. New forms of “Just In Time” manufacturing are enabling new types of businesses everyday, including 3D printing, CNC, on demand knitting and printing.
We’ve built our e-commerce platform on top of Spree, the most popular open source e-commerce framework for Ruby on Rails. Spree is changing - we’re really excited by the announcement of Solidus, a fork of Spree sponsored by the people behind some of the most successful Spree stores in production.
An Open Source e-Commerce Champion
Spree being open-source means this is a great opportunity to contribute back to the community, in particular with features that enable zero inventory on-demand manufacturing for business like ours. This is a really interesting time for e-commerce - these kinds of business models have the potential to revolutionise traditional e-commerce, including giants such as Amazon.
In order to do this we want to hire an open source e-commerce champion: a senior developer that will spend most of their time working directly on the Spree/Solidus open source projects, and the rest of the time developing core functionality of our e-commerce platform.
Skills Requirements
What we’re looking for
First and foremost we’re looking for a senior Ruby on Rails developer. E-Commerce is a tricky business: on the surface it’s just a beautiful website where customers come to buy our books. Under the hood we’re processing thousands of orders per day, distributed book production and shipping, post-purchase features for customers, a loyalty programme and customer service teams. We feel this requires someone who’s worked on large complex Ruby on Rails codebases. Someone who is interested in testing methodology, architecture and software design, as well as understanding the effect of technical debt on long-living code bases.
Second of all we’re looking for someone who’s interested in working on open source. You’ll have contributed to an open source project, you’ll have great social and communication skills which will be used to understand and support the project’s contributors.
Finally, significant e-commerce experience would be a fantastic bonus. Ideally you’ll have worked on a successful e-commerce business, and if that was Spree so much the better. We’ve already talked about the complexities of e-commerce, so having this experience would let you hit the ground running.
We’re based in East London and ideally so are you, but as this is such a niche role we’re prepared for remote applications for exceptional candidates.
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