Last June I wrote (here) about some of the qualities that go to make up a good developer. It's taken us a while to get here to the point where we have the best development team I've ever worked with but now it's time to recruit again.
Why "but", you might ask? Meantime's thriving and this is an opportunity to grow the company: surely this is something to be excited about?! Well, yes, but also hmmm...
It's tricky to find good developers. There are a lot of people out there who can write code and a lot of them can write quite good code but we need people who can write excellent code. And that doesn't mean fancy or complicated, it means code that works, that does what it was intended to do and that is written in a way that other people can pick up and work with.
And we need someone to fit in with our team. They are, as you might expect, great developers with specialisms in a range of areas but they're also a cracking bunch of people to work with. When I've been away, I always love coming back to the office, catching up with people, listening to the jokes and stories.
But we're looking to expand the family now and we need someone who can join us and feel at home. So while you'll get an incisive technical interview from Steve and you'll need to talk to me about the importance of change management, testing, user interfaces and a whole lot more, you'll also find that we'll spend a lot of time listening, so we can learn about you. That's you as a person, not a walking set of IT skills.
Many of our colleagues have been with Meantime for years and we hope that anyone who joins us will be with us for a long time, too.
So, if you're friendly, cheerful, happy working in a team AND you're a web developer, why not get in touch with us?
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