House Trip shout-out

[Damon Davison]

(This is cross-posted from our Coaches list.)

We totally forgot to give our sponsors a chance to talk to everyone at the Rails Girls event last Saturday, so I wanted to make sure you all know that House Trip is looking for developers to expand their team. Sandrine, their HR & Talent Manager, attended our event as one of the Rails Girls and we kept her very busy working on her first Rails project.

Here's House Trip's jobs page. They currently have quite a few Ruby dev positions open, as well as a load of other jobs in design UI/UX, customer service, sales and marketing. I suspect that means that things are going well. :)

http://blog.housetrip.com/jobs-at-housetrip/

"HouseTrip was founded in 2009 by Arnaud Bertrand and Junjun Chen. Arnaud and Junjun met whilst studying hospitality management at the acclaimed Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland.

 

The HouseTrip concept was born as a result of a mutual love of staying in holiday rentals while travelling. The trigger event occurred whilst trying to book a rental for a weekend in Scotland, with a booking process that was so complicated that they decided to dedicate themselves to making it simpler. Their thinking was; “since rentals are better value and more ‘authentic’ than hotels, if it’s easier and safer to book rentals, more people will choose them over hotels.” Given HouseTrip's early success, this has so far held true! 

 

Arnaud and Junjun rapidly managed to convince investors of their idea and to gather the early HouseTrip team. They built the website and launched it in January 2010. Thousands of owners added their rentals during that year and close to 20,000 guests stayed in these properties, writing post-stay reviews that were positive in more than 90% of cases. The HouseTrip story had started and, as you say, the rest is history..."