Mid-Level Full Stack Developer - London Based - London

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Position: Mid-Level Full Stack Developer

Location: London-based EC1V 9HX

Salary: 40000 -60000 per annum

Job type: Permanent

Organizational:

More than one position available.

London-based or willingness to relocate to London

Allowed to work in the UK

Company Overview and Job Description:

Do you like working with data? Do you want to make an impact in a start-up? Do you live for Django, AngularJS, continuous deployment, agile development and microservices? If you answered yes to all those questions, then keep reading!

is a London-based tech and research start-up led by young but experienced professionals. It originated as a spin-off of a well-established consultancy, which has specialised in corporate governance for over 13 years. The goal of our teamis to extract valuable governance information that is buried in thousands of pages of annual reports and supervisory filings by applying machine learning techniques.

Its an exciting time to join our small, extremely motivated, team here, and we have big visions for the future. Weve secured funding, were working towards a live product, and were now forming our technology team. We are seeking exceptional developers who identify with our core software architecture, and are prepared to have a huge impact on the product and our company culture, are willing to take ownership of problems end to end, and are able to make difficult decisions.

We think in terms of microservices rather than a monolithic system, and our stack builds on Google Cloud Platform. As a full stack developer, your main responsibility will be continuing the development of our website and database, and you will work closely with our research team to deliver the best possible user experience in the corporate governance sector. More specifically, you will: maintain our code base, design, implement and test new features, and monitor our live system.

In return we offer a great place to work, with people from diverse backgrounds, the chance of taking responsibility, being trusted and valued in the team, and the rare opportunity of experiencing and shaping a start-up.

Skills & Requirements

Required:

University degree in computer science or equivalent

4+ years of experience in commercial software development or another tech environment

Experience in managing software projects

Proficiency in object-oriented software development and automated testing

Strong programming skills in Python and JavaScript

Familiarity in using and programming relational databases

Experience in Django and AngularJS

Solid understanding of how to build APIs and REST based microservices

Good communication skills in English

Ability to work in a team, which focuses on sharing knowledge and learning new things, but also autonomous

Desirable:

Familiarity with TypeScript or CoffeeScript

Knowledge of frontend-development techniques/frameworks like Semantic UI, CSS, LESS/Sass

Experiences with non-relational databases, e.g. Redis or MongoDB

Know-how of continuous deployment systems, e.g. Jenkins

Comfortable working with task queues and message brokers like Celery, RabbitMQ

Understanding of microservices as a software architecture and containerization, e.g. Docker and Kubernetes

Familiarity with agile software development, Scrum, Kanban and Phabricator

Sample work on Bitbucket, GitHub or Stack Overflow

Additional information:

The company is a highly ambitious start-up, recently founded by their partners , a successful London-based boutique consultancy focusing on corporate governance.

Since 2003 the company have worked with boards and senior management of leading financial institutions, companies and non-profit organisations in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

The team analyses data on governance practices in various countries in order to provide superior insights to its clients.

London-based or willingness to relocate to London

Allowed to work in the UK

There is NO FLEXIBILITY on the salary

Looking to hire one junior/coming up to mid-level dev (2+years), and one solid mid-level dev (4+years)

Currently, the team consists of the CTO and one junior developer. they are looking to expand into a team of 10 by the end of the year.

Interview process -

1: Telephone interview

2: Coding challenge (conducted from home)

3: Formal F2F interview

Non-negotiables:

Knowledge of Python, JavaScript, Django and AngularJS, solid understanding of how to build APIs and REST based micro-services

Culture

We think creating software is a serious business and thus employ testing, infrastructure as code, pair programming, Scrum and everything which improves, strengthens and structures the software development process.

We work in an agile environment in self-organising and cross-functional teams, which allows us to learn from each other and continuously develop together.

We are fostering a relaxing, collaborative, fun, and highly creative atmosphere that is distinctly non-corporate.

We have a very diverse team, we were all born in different countries, we come from a wide spectrum of different backgrounds, and we are all super friendly.

We embrace open source and fundamentally believe in giving back to the community.

Benefits:

Flexible working hours, including working remotely

High level of autonomy

Choose your own gear

Awesome team to work with

28 days of paid vacation

Competitive salary & employee ownership schemes

Cycle to work & child benefit schemes

Stipend for learning material, training and conferences

Evening desk beers & office video game consoles

Benefits: Childcare Vouchers, Other(discuss with your HH Account manager)