Metail is a UK fashion technology startup with offices in Cambridge and London, UK. We use Clojure on the front-end and back and currently have vacancies for both Clojure and ClojureScript developers in our Cambridge office. If you’re interested in functional programming and are keen to work with Clojure, we’d love to hear from you. You don’t need to be an expert, we’re a friendly company and there are plenty of people here to help you learn and grow your skills.
Metail were early adopters of Clojure with the first code going into production back in 2010. This was a Clojure implementation of our size recommendation algorithm. Back then we were using Java’s Spring Framework for server-side applications, with the Clojure code embedded into the Spring application as a Java class. Nowadays, our web services are implemented in Clojure using Pedestal and ring-swagger and we are considering Lacinia for one of our newest applications. On the front-end, we use ClojureScript with re-frame and a Material UI library. We also use Clojure to orchestrate cloud deployments (REPL-Driven DevOps) and for large-scale data processing on Amazon’s Elastic Map Reduce clusters.
William Byrd at Cambridge NonDysfuntional Programmers
Metail have long been supporters of the local tech community: I met CTO Jim Downing back in 2009, when he was running the local Clojure user group. I took over in 2013, and another Metailer, Rich Taylor, took up the reins this year. When Metail moved into a new city-centre office, we had space to host meet-ups ourselves, complete with data projector and excellent wi-fi. Now we are regular hosts of Cambridge NonDysfunctional Programmers, Data Insights Cambridge, Cambridge AWS User Group, DevOps Cambridge and Cambridge Gophers. As well as providing a free venue, Metail sponsors refreshments at many of these Meetups.
If you’d like to join this growing company and vibrant local tech community, check out our current vacancies. If you’re excited by the prospect of a Clojure career but don’t see your ideal job listed there, please drop us a line anyway – we’re always keen to hear from enthusiastic Clojure developers and there may an opening that hasn’t made it up to the website yet.