Me, RedBubble and You

Published 4 January 07 by Justin French, 2 comments

Back in late September or early October sometime I was surfing the 37signals job board researching Rails jobs in Australia (no, I wasn’t actually looking for a new gig), when I recognised a name in one of the ads, James Pierce.

After a quick chat about the company, culture & development environment, it became quite clear that this wasn’t the sort of opportunity that presents itself very often in Australia (let alone on my doorstep in Melbourne), and I’d be a fool not to take it.

Of course the downside of taking up the position at RedBubble was that I’d be waving good bye to nearly 2 years of blood, sweat and tears invested in Joyent/TextDrive. I’d be saying good bye to some amazing people, a strong community, good friends, a talented development team and things like Strongspace, (essentially my first born child).

But I can comfortably say it was all worth it. Change is an amazing thing, and I couldn’t be happier.

The good news for you (if you’re a talented web developer located in Melbourne, Australia) is that we’re hiring.

So what is RedBubble? I think I’ll just borrow a few lines from the job posting:

Redbubble is small but well funded Australian company building a web site where designers, authors, illustrators, musicians and other creative people can upload their work to share and sell online. We take care of the logistics, production and distribution.

We’ll be launching in Australia very soon, but in the meantime, there’s a short video on YouTube if you want to learn a bit more.