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About Vulcan Labs

Address
Unit F6, Urban Hub, 142 Buitengracht, Cape Town, South Africa
Company size
1-15 employees

Summary

Vulcan Labs is a software consultancy that works with companies who need to supercharge their development teams.

Some bullet points about us

  • Remote first with a Cape Town office for when we want to get together.
  • Looking for people who genuinely care about delivering high value software.
  • You’ll work on solving business problems for customers on teams made up of people from customers, Vulcan Labs and other consultancies.
  • Consultants have a high level of autonomy, we trust our people to make the right decisions.
  • Shy away from projects that are bums on seats
  • Will end a contract if we feel we are no longer providing value.
  • Consider ourselves experts in React and Typescript (have been building production systems with these tools for as long as they've been around)
  • Still a small <20 people consultancy but want to grow to ~30 people over the next two years (slow and steady wins the race).

Some exciting things

  • Learn React from a team who's been building production systems with it from almost day 1
  • Looking to grow our Elixir competency over the next few years as we believe it's rock solid
  • We have data people with over 30 years of experience, if you want to level up your SQL and BI skills
  • Work on lots of high volume distributed systems
  • Own the entire solution(truly full-stack), you'll rarely just be pigeon holed into a single competency.
  • Work with clients who trust and respect you.
  • Build developer tools for us and clients to use.

Some things about yourself

  • 6+ years of experience (4 if you've been a consultant)
  • Have some consulting experience (not a must but a big plus)
  • Have strong opinions held weakly
  • Prefer composition over inheritance
  • Ideally have some experience working with Product focused teams
  • Have experience with one of the following: Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Clojure, Elixir
  • Based in a EMEA timezone
  • Have worked in a full-stack role
  • Think a lot about data and modelling
  • Care about writing performant legible code
  • Care about solving business problems
  • Get excited when talking about tech problems
  • Are Pragmatic
  • Want to learn Elixir, Typescript, Clojure, Ruby
  • Aren't dogmatic
  • Prefer working in teams

Perks at Vulcan Labs

Free coffee and beer
Great office with outside deck and views of table mountain
Competive salaries
Close-knit, FUN team
Competitive Compensation Package
Non-hierarchical
Exposure to New Tech

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
Rails
Rails
Sass
Sass
Heroku
Heroku
Sidekiq
Sidekiq
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
Java
Java
Ruby
Ruby
React
React
jQuery
jQuery
C#
C#
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
nginx
nginx
Ember.js
Ember.js
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MS SQL
MS SQL
Oracle
Oracle
TypeScript
TypeScript

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
Bower
Bower
GitHub
GitHub
Docker
Docker
New Relic
New Relic

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack

Office Photos

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