Hi Everyone, I'm the Founder at Spend Network, and would be happy to answer any questions about Spend Network and the role.
Best, Ian On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 15:58, Chris Adams <w...@chrisadams.me.uk> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been working on a fun django project since summer last year, and and > we're looking for either a django developer with an interest in front end > and UI, or a front end developer who would like to learn a bit more django, > to help us build out a new product. > > *The problem(s) you'd be solving* > > We're building a product based on open data, to make public sector tending > more effective, by aggregating the data in one place, and making it easily > searchable, and building data products on top of it. > > This might be making it possible to subscribe to new tenders published by > organisations with a history of buying from small business or helping a > team do cool analysis to work out the CO2 emissions you could achieve if > London switched entirely to renewable power in its public procurement and > so on. > > *The project and codebase* > > You would be working on a Django application, hosted on Heroku, that > connects to a large PostgresSQL database and Elasticsearch cluster, in a > small team, working mostly with one other developer, one data analyst and > the founder, to deliver features, before making them available to users. > > When working with the front end, you'd be extending a bootstrap based > front end, using Grunt, SCSS, and where javascript is in use, mainly jQuery > based plugins. > > When working with charts and data visualisations, you'd be working with > D3-based charts, mainly generated using Altair, a python based library for > describing chats that can be rendered using D3 and Vega. > Yes, there are tests and CI, and a pipeline for shipping code behind > flags, but yes, as ever, the tests run slower than we'd like them to. > > You'd be working closest with the co-founder, a data analyst. and another > python developer, who also codes django. > > *The team - Spend Network* > > Spend Network is a data analysis company dedicated to solving problems > through the release of open data. We’re a small, friendly team that cares > about being inclusive and doing good work. We’re open to remote working > and flexible working. For instance, we'd love to work with someone who was > returning to work, could only work 9-to-3, or needed a job share. We’re > inquisitive, supportive and diligent. > > We work with procurement data and have the largest, open database of > tenders in the world (you can see some of it here: [https://openopps.com) > <https://openopps.com%5D(https://openopps.com/)>). We sell our data to > businesses and Governments, but also make the data available for free to > academics, journalists and activists. > > *More details here:* > > > https://www.notion.so/Front-end-dev-job-spec-47130890c7294035862279bc5aebfffb > > *Getting in touch* > > Please send an email to Ian on cont...@spendnetwork.com. > > Thanks folks! > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >
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