We are looking for a VP Development to oversee the technical wing of Trampoline. The role reports to the CEO and will involve extensive work with VP Sales (to be appointed). The VP Development will establish Trampoline’s software as a secure technology suitable for enterprise adoption and conduct high-level technical liaison with customers and partners. Internally, he or she will organise development resources to meet business objectives and manage recruitment of technical personnel.

The successful candidate will have experience leading a major security initiative in a top-five software vendor and a worldwide profile as a thought-leader in secure computing. The salary is competitive with share options and the location is Shoreditch, London.

To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role to Rebecca Kemp - rebecca DOT kemp AT trampolinesystems DOT com

The BBC is reporting Music site Last.fm bought by CBS for a tidy old sum of £140m. Not bad for five year’s work. Founder Martin Stiksel said it was an “exciting opportunity”….. no kidding!

Congratulations all round guys. Last.fm is a great service that we all use here in the office every day, and we’re looking forward to getting access to “every track ever recorded and every music video ever made”.

SONAR brings statistical natural language processing and social network analysis to the problem of browsing and filtering large archives. We permit users to see who is talking to who, how much and about what. There are applications in areas including expertise discovery, compliance, forensics, search and alerting.

We are a small company, with large ambition. We number currently 10, and have just secured £3M of venture funding to help us grow our R&D efforts and establish a North American presence.

The SONAR platform consists of a very Ajaxy web front-end in Ruby on Rails, with a Java back-end doing the asynchronous natural language processing and social network analysis.

We are looking for software developers with experience in the following technologies :

Java, Hibernate, Spring framework, JMS, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Transactions, Transactional messaging, SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, Windows

Experience in all of the above is not a necessity. We are looking for smart people who can learn quickly, love solving difficult problems and can grow with the company. These attributes are far more important than any tick list.

If you are interested, please contact :

Craig McMillan, craig AT trampolinesystems DOT com

Please note : if you are an agency and are not already talking to us, then do not contact us. Really.