Jobs

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Front-End Developer / Team Lead

Company: Skimlinks

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

d3.js

Backbone.js

require.js

Highcharts

SASS

Skimlinks is looking for a programmer (we're language agnostic) who's interested in joining and leading our front-end team. Skimlinks is one of the most well-known UK-originated startups in the internet space, founded in London in 2007 and now with offices in San Francisco and New York. We have been described by Techcrunch as one of London's leading startups, and voted in the top 10 of the Guardian Tech Media Invest.

Skimlinks offers blogs, forums and websites the ability to earn an income from their content, by paying them a commission if readers click through and make an online purchase.We consider ourselves a company that sells innovations, and in the last few years we have conceived and built a range of unique, compelling products that have shaken up the online monetization space.

What will I be working on?

We're building a single page analytics suite to give web publishers actionable information on how they are monetizing and how they can better monetize (hey you’re helping keep the Internet’s lights on) . Its powered with Backbone.js, require.js, Highcharts and SASS. We're open minded about trying new tools and technologies (any ClosureScript fans out there?). It's very Javascript focussed, built around our API, and we're out to make a fast, reliable (testing + CI) web app that feels of the web, rather than a Flash RIA circa 2003.

While it's obviously simplest for someone who knows Javascript already, if you've never seen a === (some equality operators require more equality than others ;) ) but love picking up new technologies we'd like to hear from you.

What it’s like to work @Skimlinks?

  • Big screens and fast computers (Linux, OSX or PC, up to you)
  • Sociable company - Friday drinks and regular team lunches
  • Office right on Old Street roundabout - more hipster coffeeshops that you could possibly need
  • Unix platform on AWS
  • Standups and a lightweight process
  • Testing and Jenkins CI
  • QA team - ever had someone on your team to whose job it is to double check your end product and catch any errors before release? It's good.
  • A product team that understands why you might want to spend a sprint refactoring
  • Hackdays, big data access on what millions of people are clicking on and buying

We'll be most interested in reading your code, regardless of experience. If you've not got some code we can read, either bash out that project you've been meaning to work on or ask us and we'll put together a quick project for you (it'll be something fun, maybe involving d3.js) which will take an hour or so.

If you'd like to come in and have a look around and meet the team pre-interview, get in touch.

We look forward to meeting you!

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Senior Software Developer / Team Lead

Company: Skimlinks

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

API

Datasets

Hadoop

Hbase

Flume

Affiliate Marketing

An exciting opportunity for an experienced developer to join an award-winning VC-backed start-up during its rapid growth phase. The role is based in Shoreditch, London right in the middle of the Silicon Roundabout. Our digs have a strong technology culture, lots of space and a high-spec setup.

About the company

Skimlinks is one of the most well-known UK-originated startups in the internet space, founded in London in 2007 and now with offices in San Francisco and New York. We have been described by Techcrunch as one of London's leading startups, and voted in the top 10 of the Guardian Tech Media Invest. Skimlinks offers blogs, forums and websites the ability to earn an income from their content, by paying them a commission if readers click through and make an online purchase.

We consider ourselves a company that sells innovations, and in the last few years we have conceived and built a range of unique, compelling products that have shaken up the online monetization space.

About the role

Skimlinks prides ourselves on our fast rate of innovation and our clever products that solve real business problems. Although we have offices in San Francisco and New York, our core technology team is based in our London offices, where we are seeking a talented engineer to be involved in building ground-breaking and compelling products.

Skills Required:

  • Substantial experience building web applications with a broad interest in programming languages
  • API experience, including integration and API design would be very impressive (we are a bit fanatical about APIs)
  • Experience developing scalable web applications for high-volume sites on cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS is also highly desirable
  • On the back-end - noSQL, MapReduce – experience working with huge datasets
  • Hands on experience with big data technologies: Hadoop, Hbase, Flume
  • Experience leading teams or projects with a heavy data science element: recommendation engines, clustering algorithms, classifiers
  • Experience in affiliate marketing, online advertising or other B2B advertising related platform would make you stand out
  • Version control with Git (or SVN)
  • Demonstrable experience working with product managers to plan the development of complex products
  • Experience leading and mentoring less experienced colleagues within an Agile environment
  • Experience developing modular, scalable web applications for high-volume sites and cloud-based infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services

About you

We are looking for someone who simply loves to code, someone who thinks of it as recreation rather than work, and who has a stream of projects going on just for fun.

  • You understand the importance of being data-driven, but you can also rely on your gut and intuition. You thrive in a lean, fast-paced environment that iterates quickly and love the thrill and madness of working in a start-up environment. You have a sense of humour, are ambitious and love pushing the boundaries as much as we do.
  • You will be leading a dev team alongside three other teams, working closely with our CTO and the Product team.
  • You will be leading projects from start to finish - from idea brainstorming through to planning, guiding and implementation.
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Front-End Developer

Company: Better Brief

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

Developer

HTML5

CSS

Photoshop

We are a small, close-knit team of motivated, passionate professionals who demonstrate our skills in web development, user experience and design through the creation of websites, web applications and online tools. We started just under 5 years ago purely as a consultancy house and have since grown steadily to a team of 6. Both Directors have programming backgrounds and our key output is technical.

Required skills

  • Proven, professional experience working as a frontend web developer
  • Someone who knows their DOM, pseudo classes, tablet nuances and everything in between
  • An eye for detail and an interest in new technologies (with an understanding of their limitations)
  • Experience with responsive, HTML5, building for tablets, etc
  • Experience with JavaScript. If you're a JS guru, even betterlevel

Who are we looking for?

  • A passionate, talented person
  • Good communication skills - be able to talk to clients and internally get your point across
  • Someone who loves working with frontend technology
  • Someone who enjoys challenging, varied work

Job Details

  • Annual salary: up to £30k dependent on experience
  • Probationary period: 3 months
  • Performance review: 6 months continuously
  • Holiday entitlement: 28 days including Christmas + bank holidays
  • Full health cover including subsidised gym membership
  • Fun through the year: we go to conferences, meetups, on days out (go-karting, paintballing etc) and trips away (in the past narrow-boating and to a villa in Tuscany)
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Senior Software Developer

Company: MOO.com

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

API

PHP

CSRF

Software

Developer

Full-Time

The 20 strong development team is split into smaller teams, each with it's own dedicated product manager and always on hand, in-line QA. Each of these teams operate like their own start-up - empowered to make any decisions needed to get the job done.

About MOO:

  • We make life a little less virtual (we love the web, but you can't put it in your pocket).
  • We help our customers create products like Business Cards, Postcards and MiniCards, making it easy for them to share information about themselves or their business in the real world.
  • Unlike many tech companies, we make physical products, and they are used every day by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
  • We work with amazing partners including Facebook, Flickr, Etsy, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Responsibilities

Wondering what you would work on?

Well, it's difficult to say since the scope of our work is so varied. The work changes depending on the priority set by our product team.

To provide you with a taste of what the work may involve: had you joined the team back in January you would have worked on some (or all of) the following:

  • Designing and delivering our new data model and PDF rendering process
  • Creating and coding a brand spanking new "Accounts" section of the website
  • Researching and releasing a custom algorithm to detect whether JPEGs are photographs or artwork
  • Imagining and implementing the new version of the MOO API

We're currently working on something pretty interesting that involves CouchDB, and something else with Flash (sandwiched between a table football tournament or two).

About you

We'd be over the moon if you:

  • have a strong work ethic (whilst making time to have fun at the end of the day)
  • know your interfaces from your abstract classes
  • can draw an abstract factory on a whiteboard without breaking sweat
  • hand on your heart, can honestly say you really understand the basics of HTTP and maybe what an RFC is
  • search for that last line to get 100% code coverage with your unit tests
  • have ever looked to see what the cyclometric complexity of your code is, just for fun
  • can explain what CSRF is, and how to stop it

It wouldn't hurt if you:

  • know a bit of PHP
  • have dabbled with JQuery
  • have written something in ActionScript
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JavaScript Developer

Company: FT Labs

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

Developer

Publishing

Content

HTML5

FT Labs is a brand new emerging web technologies group within the Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations. We build web applications using exciting new web technologies, and are looking for new JavaScript developers to join our team.

Responsibilities may include:

  • Operational management of Linux servers running Apache, MySQL, PHP and associated technologies
  • Building developer VMs and configuring new server platforms
  • Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems, identifying and isolating problematic software to assist the development team and systems administrators with fault resolution.
  • Monitoring and optimising server and application performance
  • Supporting the development team with deployment and production config for their applications
  • Sharing on-call duties

Required skills

  • Experience managing linux servers for high availability
  • Server monitoring, Zabbix/Nagios etc
  • Shared storage
  • MySQL database deployment, monitoring and optimisation
  • Proxy strategies for website acceleration
  • Configuration management using cfengine or puppet
  • Package management using RPM
  • PHP, SQL and JavaScript to an advanced level
  • Technical problem solving abilities

Desirable skills

  • Data protection compliant backup strategy
  • System performance tuning and capacity planning
  • CCNA/CCNP

Salary

We offer salaries of £30,000 – £50,000 for webops roles

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Junior Web Developer

Company: Chaffin.ch

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

Backbone

Coffeescript

Jade

Stylus

Handlebars

Node

Express

Websockets

Git

Mocha

API

Chaffinch is hiring a junior web developer.

Our current eco-system includes: Backbone, Coffeescript, Jade, Stylus, Handlebars, Node, Express, WebSockets, Git, Mocha, Google Maps API and Facebook API among other things. If you're familiar with any of these, or looking to learn them, we'd love to hear from you.

Please apply via our API, details here: http://chaffin.ch/careers

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Lead Developer

Company: Sense Worldwide

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

Node.js

Backbone.js

Clojure

CodeIgniter

Symphony2

We're looking for our new in house Lead Developer!
We're looking for a self starting enthusiastic developer to take us to the next level. We have a few websites that you'll be in charge of. Firstly, our online research platform, CNCT, a little like a private Facebook. We have our main recruitment site, thesensenetwork.com and chorusandecho.com, the home of our global experts.

One half of your role will involve maintaining our current PHP/Javascript (CodeIgniter and Symphony2) code base. This means fixing bugs and implementing small feature updates. You have to be able to support the full stack, from server configuration to client side Javascript HTML & CSS. The other half of the role will involve building a brand new 'mini' social network, to replace the current Sense Network site. For the new site we would like to move away from a PHP backend and use Ruby, Python, a JVM language such as Scala or Clojure or even Node.js, whichever you feel confident with.

The new build will be your baby and we have big plans for the future of our network and so we feel that a move away from PHP was necessary both to shake things up a bit and to attract candidates that are keen to expand their horizons and learn about other technologies. Ideally the server and client would be completely separate code bases, communicating via API so you would have to be confident writing javascript (or Coffeescript) as well as using modern front-end libraries such as Backbone.js.

You will be working mostly on your own when it comes to coding but as a central part of our "Cyber" team you will have the support of Raj our Design Director, James our community manager who has a computer science background and can sling some code now and again, Maria who looks after the users and enjoys breaking things, pointing out bugs and suggesting new features and Jean Robert (Aka J) who looks after chorusandecho.com. We do also hire the occasional freelancer whenever necessary, web designers in particular.

About us

Sense Worldwide is a forward thinking brand strategy agency. Recently described by FastCo as 'The Hogwarts of strategy'.

We were one of the first agencies to solve problems through co-creation and so we have built an enviable reputation for our strategic collaborative approach. We now help companies across many different categories, many of them the biggest and best known brands in the world, including Nike, MTV, Diageo and Johnson & Johnson.

We're a very diverse bunch of people and this is what sets us apart. As a Developer you will often be able to provide a unique perspective on some of our projects. You may be pulled in to meetings about the future of the Internet Of Things or be asked about your view on how to revolutionise banking. We have a great space in the loft where you will be encouraged to take part in events such as London IA or even organise your own tech meetup!

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Senior UI Developer

Company: huddle

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

CSS/SASS/LESS

Backbone.js

REST APIs

Huddle seeks to be at the forefront of the modern web, and is looking for an expert in web UI development to help us get there and stay there. We are building a rich, responsive, JavaScript-based web app, based on Knockout and talking directly to our extensive REST API. We are therefore looking for someone with exceptional JavaScript skills as well as the ability to produce beautiful and maintainable HTML and CSS.

Our focus is on providing a fantastic user experience, and alongside JavaScript, CSS and HTML development, this position involves working closely with our Interaction Designer, Visual Designer and Product team to make sure we build something that our users love.

Reporting to the Head of Development, and working as part of an Agile development team, this role is based at our Shoreditch office and has the following responsibilities:

Responsibilities

  • Developing high quality JavaScript, CSS and HTML code for the Huddle web application
  • Working as a member of a cross functional team comprised of C# Developers, UI Developers, and QA Engineers
  • Working closely with the Product Team to refine product requirements and contribute product ideas
  • Making design decisions in line with both technical and visual standards
  • Driving improvements in the areas of design, UI technology and process
  • Working with QA to define appropriate test cases and fixing any bugs found during QA testing
  • Writing automated tests including web automation and JavaScript unit tests
  • Working with backend developers to integrate business logic and presentation
  • Mentoring less experienced team members and helping to cross train C# Developers who have an interest in UI development
  • Guiding the future architectural direction of Huddle's UI

Required experience and qualifications

  • Recognised expert in JavaScript, including JQuery, JQuery UI and JQuery plug-ins, and frameworks such as Knockout, Backbone.js or similar
  • Significant experience interacting with a HATEOAS REST API , JSON and AJAX
  • Expert in producing maintainable CSS for large applications, and in the usage of sprites
  • A successful track record and proven ability to deliver elegant web user interfaces using modular, reusable code
  • 5+ years' experience designing, developing and maintaining the front end of large-scale web applications
  • Commercial experience working with Scrum, XP or a similar Agile methodology
  • Experience developing for multiple browsers, including IE6
  • Awareness of accessibility and W3C compliance
  • The ability to articulate pros and cons of various UI development tools and frameworks and make resulting trade off decisions
  • A genuine passion for web development in general; and elegance, usability and web standards in particular

Desired experience and qualifications

  • Experience with graphic editing software such as Fireworks or Photoshop
  • Some knowledge of C# and ASP.NET
  • Experience of unit testing and BDD in JavaScript
  • Experience working with MVC websites and REST APIs

About you

  • Your aim will be to work in a fast-paced start-up environment and share in the excitement of growing a global online business
  • You will share the values associated with Agile software development
  • You will be driven, dedicated and motivated by constant improvement

About Huddle

Universally recognised as one of Europe's premier tech start-ups, Huddle has been named a potential 'next Google' and one of the top 50 global start-ups by Business Week, and one of the Financial Times' top 10 British start-up companies.

Huddle's social collaboration platform is the winner of multiple awards, including TechCrunch's Best EMEA Enterprise app, Tech Media Invest's Innovation Award and BCS' Internet Product of the Year, and more. Thousands of businesses including P&G, Pearson, Panasonic and UNICEF and a number of UK and US government departments trust Huddle.

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Senior Web (UX) Designer

Company: huddle

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

UX

cross-platform

CSS3

HTML5

Agile

Our product makes it easy for people to collaborate on content across all their devices. We need a magical user experience, providing simple, quick and ubiquitous access to people, information and tools. That experience begins in our insightful (naturally) product strategy and guides the development of our platform and API suite. Your job is to help us deliver a beautiful and usable user interface.

You're a designer who can also code. You're as adept with HTML5 and CSS3 as you are with typography, layout and colour theory. You're all about using responsive design and media queries to create adaptable pages that look awesome on all screens. You can work with wireframes, comps, and high-level requirements, and create beautiful, sensible design options that meet the brief. You're agile, creative, open to ideas and not afraid to speak up with your own.

Key responsibilities

  • Design beautiful, simple and usable webpages that work cross-platform
  • Prototype designs directly in the browser where appropriate, and in Adobe suite where not
  • Make conceptual prototypes for user-testing sessions
  • Work nicely with our client-side developers to take your designs live
  • Work within our agile environment, where you'll need to report on your progress every day
  • Be quick to solve day-to-day issues, but design for the long-term
  • Work from written or verbal briefs from the Product Manager and UX Lead
  • Keep showing us the stuff we should be doing to make Huddle better

Experience guidelines

  • 5 Years+ experience as a visual design practitioner
  • Experienced in working from wireframes and/or designing directly in the browser
  • Experienced in designing interfaces for web, mobile and tablet applications
  • Proficient in HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery or equivalent
  • Proficient in user-centred design, information architecture and interaction design
  • Proficient in common design tools: Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Omnigraffle
  • Excellent analytical, process-oriented and time-management skills
  • Excellent timekeeper and team-player
  • Excellent written and verbal communicator
  • Able to travel if required

About Huddle

Universally recognised as one of Europe's premier tech start-ups, Huddle has been named a potential 'next Google' and one of the top 50 global start-ups by Business Week, and one of the Financial Times' top 10 British start-up companies.

Huddle's social collaboration platform is the winner of multiple awards, including TechCrunch's Best EMEA Enterprise app, Tech Media Invest's Innovation Award and BCS' Internet Product of the Year, and more. Thousands of businesses including P&G, Pearson, Panasonic and UNICEF and a number of UK and US government departments trust Huddle.

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UI Developer

Company: MOO.com

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

CSS/SASS/LESS

HTML5

We are looking for an exceptional person to join our amazing award winning high growth company! Are you a passionate and self-motivated front end web developer? Moo needs you to join our expanding engineering team at our Shoreditch headquarters!

About MOO:

  • We make life a little less virtual (we love the web, but you can't put it in your pocket).
  • We help our customers create products like Business Cards, Postcards and MiniCards, making it easy for them to share information about themselves or their business in the real world.
  • Unlike many tech companies, we make physical products, and they are used every day by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
  • We work with amazing partners including Facebook, Flickr, Etsy, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Responsibilities

  • Working along side the Product, UX, and design teams to define and deliver interfaces of exceptional quality
  • Developing high quality JavaScript (jQuery), CSS, and HTML which conforms to the MOO coding standards
  • Working in a small cross-functional team of developers to deliver high quality web applications to (self imposed) demanding deadlines.
  • Provide mentorship and direction to more junior members of the team.

About you

  • Able to write modular, cross-browser, optimised CSS/SASS/Less code, including understanding & communicating how given designs will degrade across older browsers while still allowing the best MOO look & feel possible for each platform.
  • Able to write performant, well-organised JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX, giving a rich interactive experience for those that support it, and degrades sensibly and gracefully across older browsers
  • Understanding & communicating the best semantic markup for a layout, working within a modified grid360 system
  • Work closely with UX, product managers, other developers and designers to best realise the vision, design & implementation of the website, discussing technical solutions and suggesting alternatives where required
  • Awareness of industry issues, trends & emerging technologies, and able to communicate them to both technical and non technical team members
  • Able to design, communicate and ensure consistent front end code standards for a team of developers

About you

  • University Degree in Computer Science
  • An obsession with unit testing, and a militant supporter of web standards
  • Active involvement in an open source project
  • A good understanding of agile software development practices, preferably hands on experience of SCRUM
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JavaScript Developer

Company: FT Labs

Location: London, UK

Job type: Permanent

Tags:

JavaScript

Developer

Publishing

Content

HTML5

FT Labs is a brand new emerging web technologies group within the Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations. We build web applications using exciting new web technologies, and are looking for new JavaScript developers to join our team.

Responsibilities may include:

  • Software development in JavaScript
  • Writing user interaction behaviours
  • Integrating with server-side APIs
  • Liaising with UX engineers and designers to help shape the user experience
  • Testing, debugging and troubleshooting
  • Client liaison and training

Required skills

  • Highly capable in raw Javascript programming (without dependence on any framework or toolset)
  • HTML5 and CSS
  • Knowledge of a variety of software design patterns, such as factory, observer, revealing module, pubsub, closure, etc
  • Working knowledge of Linux command line tools and version control concepts
  • Excellent quality of written and spoken English

Desirable skills

  • Experience with PHP
  • Experience with jQuery
  • Usability and user experience design
  • Knowledge of the Baazar VCS

Salary

We offer salaries of £25,000 – £50,000 for developer roles.

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