I am glad that I checked this thread after a fag and shit break without any one even noticing in the office. More than yourself, I couldn't have been lucky today. I am working for a small company, sole developer, more than 2.5 years now. I directly report to my director who's monitor is just behind my seat and who himself doesn't come from a technical background. But he is one of the most reasonable person I have come across as a boss, too excited about technology and gadgets, recently bought IPads for every suitable employee. Just like you sometimes I am overloaded with tasks and we are about to start one, two new projects in few months. We have just started looking for candidates via agencies and I have been given the responsibility to hire suitable candidate. Finding someone on HN, who has at least heard about Node, couldn't be more exciting for me. Here is the deal.
I can offer you a min £25k salary, can go up to £35k, based on the skill set. We have 25 days holidays, private health insurance, pension scheme and sponsorship for training/courses. We are located close to Reading about 45 mins on train from London Waterloo. I can help you with finding an apartment close to town centre and railway station, if you are willing to move in. If interested, please email me at [email protected].
If you can live with a bit slow but loads of plugins, stick to Eclipse. Bonus point is, you can use the same IDE for other languages (if you switch to other languages), withou wasting more time to bypass the learning curve.