If you’re smart, passionate about technology and enjoy solving complex technical challenges then you should apply to join our best-in-class tech team. We believe that people are our most important asset and one worth protecting. As such, we’re known for creating an enviable working culture to keep our employees smiling on a day to day basis.
We offer things such as flexible hours, remote working, fortnigtly hackathons and freedom to work on projects of individual interest to name just a few. In fact, our impressive working culture has recently earned us 1st place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for 2015.
We have two different positions.
Senior Developers who would like to lead a team / projects – We envisage the split here being about 70% hands-on coding and 30% leading the team, liaising with product owners on prioritization work, attending iteration planning meetings with stakeholders, delegating tasks to dev team, and making sure we are following Lean / Agile processes correctly.
Senior Developers who want to be 100% coders (non-lead) -This role will be 100% hands on working with our other Devs to code beautiful products for our customers!
Some of our Current Projects:
Seedy – Our custom built CMS.A hybrid,markdown based, sinatra driven CMS but witha TDD undercurrent. Content changes are nodifferent to backend refactoring. Templates arewritten in a custom DSL that enforces our styleguide while still supporting iterative changesand automatic deployment. Across the companypeople (including business teams) are now beingtagged in pull requests and even writing code!
Aerie – We’re overhauling our data and analyticsarchitecture. Using the latest approaches inevent streaming, we are building a brand newdata pipeline based on Kinesis and Redshift thatwill support the analysis of both structured andsemi-structured data in near real-time. This willprovide rapid and intuitive customer insightto our decision makers, while also providingexciting machine learning capabilities back toour core product offering.
AAA – We are enhancing our new world platform.Our current focus is on security with a view tobuilding out ‘infrastructure as code’ using toolssuch as AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks,Chef/Puppet and many others. Essentially, webelieve a well architected system allows us toavoid unnecessary complexity and can enableindividuals to generate great output.
Our Tech Stack
Ruby
Rails
Scala
MongoDB
RabbitMQ
Puppet/Boxen
AWS
Hadoop /RedShift / Looker /Tableau
Cucumber / RSpec / Jasmine
SASS / HAML / HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / CoffeeScript / jQuery
This list changes all the time, as being onthe lookout for new technology trials andopportunities is part of our code. We don’tbelieve in limiting ourselves, or the company.If there are other tools that could getthe job done better, we’re committedto exploring them.
Things we believe in:
TDD / BDD
Continuous Delivery
Pair Programming
Build – Measure – Learn
Active participation to open source
Our business people writing code (we’ve not seen this anywhere else!)
Cross functional teams (Dev / QA/ Data / UX / Product owners all sitting together)
Release early and learn quickly – we release our software to production around 15 times a day on average!
Continuous learning – we look to pay for courses and conferences and actively encourage our Devs to get out and about in the community. We have even sent some of our Devs to Miami, Portugal and Barcelona for conferences recently.
Have fun! We do ruby coding challenges during lunchtimes over pizza, we have desk beers on a friday, we have several social events throughout the year, we do fortnightly hackathons, we have afterwork clubs like: UX, Data science and Robotics club, we have flexible working hours, weekly ‘show n tell’ sessions, and lot’s more!
