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Flynn

Open-source PaaS for deploying apps

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's
Dublin, Ireland
In Person
Architecture & Civil EngineeringConstruction Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying and Construction Economics or an equivalent degree recognized by the Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland or the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
  • At least 6 years of quantity surveying experience.
  • In-depth knowledge and understanding of construction-industry contract forms, including RIAI, FIDIC, and JCT.
  • Advanced knowledge of the market and competition demonstrating commercial acumen.
  • Ability to negotiate, deal with conflict, and critically evaluate documents.
  • Strong attention to detail.
  • Ability to build client and professional quantity surveyor relationships.
Responsibilities
  • Manage multiple projects to maximize commercial returns while maintaining positive relationships.
  • Track project deliverables and ensure commercial and administrative systems, budgets, and cost-control procedures are utilized.
  • Manage commercial teams to drive successful project delivery and lead project commercial planning and implementation.
  • Review tender documentation in depth and identify risks or potential gains.
  • Review and approve selected contractors and suppliers.
  • Ensure contractual correspondence complies with contract terms, including detailed analysis and documentation of extension-of-time notifications and claims.
  • Monitor projects continuously to ensure they remain on schedule and within budget.
  • Assist with and manage the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  • Report actual costs against estimates, identify reasons for variances and resolutions, and highlight, challenge, and resolve variances against the latest plans.
  • Present reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions.
  • Help clients achieve their stated objectives through close teamwork, proactive cost control, and contractual advice.
  • Ensure subcontracts are properly prepared and managed to reflect the agreed scope, including communications, payments, compensation events, and programme submissions.
  • Ensure all project team members, including site staff, understand contractual arrangements and meet client and partner requirements.
  • Develop and maintain strong client relationships and leverage opportunities for repeat business.

About the company

Flynn is an open-source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that lets developers deploy, scale, and manage applications and databases on their own infrastructure. Built with Go and container-based technology, it provides a self-hosted alternative to Heroku with Git-based automated deployments and built-in PostgreSQL and MySQL databases plus automatic load balancing. It can run on a single server or across multiple nodes for high availability, giving users control over hosting and resources. Its goal is to offer a simple, scalable way to run apps on self-hosted infrastructure, delivering a familiar Heroku-like workflow with on-premises flexibility.

Company Size

N/A

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$1.4M

Headquarters

Newark, New Jersey

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • Archived code still documents a complete Heroku-style stack for legacy operators.
  • Self-hosting enthusiasts still reuse Flynn ideas for private PaaS experiments.
  • Open-source history preserves a migration path for teams retiring old Flynn clusters.

What critics are saying

  • GitHub archived Flynn on September 4, 2021; development stopped entirely.
  • Public infrastructure shut down, and the project receives no security updates.
  • Kubernetes, Render, and Railway absorbed Flynn's market; revival looks impossible.

What makes Flynn unique

  • Go-native, self-hostable PaaS with Git push deployment and built-in databases.
  • Ran on one server or clustered nodes, unlike Heroku's fixed managed model.
  • Open-source architecture let teams own infrastructure, data, and operational control.

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