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Quill (London, UK) - passionate, delivery focused software engineers required (Ruby experience preferred but not essential)!!!

Quill has developed a tried and tested, market-leading Platform to manage the workflows, quality control and content distribution of its global content creator Network. We want to accelerate its development, including opening it up on a “Software as a Service” (SaaS/white label) basis for some of our larger clients, who want to build an internal content production capability.

We have a lot of exciting features we want to develop, and we’re looking for a number of (Ruby) software engineers to help meet our roadmap and speed up the global roll out of the Quill Platform. We’re a start-up (3 years old), and that means a fast-paced environment, an agile tech team who are constantly finding pragmatic solutions to ever-changing problems, and continually learning new skills.

Backed by a strong team of digital investors, Quill has recently secured an additional £5m investment that will accelerate its international expansion, advance the SaaS rollout of the Quill Platform and consolidate its position as the UK’s content marketing leader. Quill has been named one of Britain’s 50 most exciting and disruptive businesses as part of the 2014 Everline Future 50.

It's an exciting time to join (so exciting in fact I'm joining as CTO!!!) so if you're passionate about building great software and want to have a major impact on the business get in touch - andybritcliffe AT quillcontent.com. No agencies please we've got a PSL - thanks.

I think the point being made is that ship cycles are very different between B2C and B2B. I've experienced both (and to be clear I love the idea of frequent small releases) but in a B2B scenario multiple daily releases are simply not possible as you cannot use your customers as testers, I can assure you if you try contracts will be terminated. We ship every two weeks and that has taken a huge effort on our part to help our customers understand the value of a frequent ship cycle. On the flip side I think you can do this in a b2c environment (with appropriate quality controls of course) providing you understand the revenue risks if something is shipped poorly (as you mention with FB and Etsy), at that stage it's pure business priority trade off.

For me I think it's actually a clever marketing move by DHH and 37 Signals to create a "stir" around the issue. My guess is they don't really care what Yahoo's reasons are behind it but are very pleased with the timing...you can't help but notice at the bottom of the post - Interested in learning more about remote work? Checkout our upcoming book REMOTE: Office Not Required.

this is an interesting stat as I still don't understand how you can get around the "visa" issue of working in the US with a UK passport.

It actually explains the new office in the post "Erich will continue to live and work out of Zurich, Switzerland where we will be opening a small Visual Studio development lab with Erich as the lead."

Just to add a combination of jquerymobile and phonegap has allowed us to deliver native iphone, ipad, android and mobile web app from the same codebase. Pretty sweet.

Such a common issue, we have recruiters phone us directly and lie to whoever answers the phones by saying they have a UPS package for "John" in an attempt to talk to us. Scum bags