Position: Full Stack Mobile Dev
Pay: £32’000 – £40’000 TBD
Equity: 1.5 – 2.5% TBD
Who are you?:
Are you a talented, ambitious full stack who wants to be an integral part of the team building a mobile app to shape the future of content discovery?
What we are building:
· A mobile app which curates, refines and collects the only the world’s greatest videos and images.
· An algorithm which optimises what the user viewing experience and is constantly learning and improving the content base.
· Exciting and creative UX which we want to break the norms and shake-up social media and content discovery.
· Our mission:
– Compile the highest quality content library ever assembled.
– Impact millions. Create millions of moments of laughter, intrigue and awe.
– Make the internet exciting again! The unwritten social media rules are in need of a shake up.
Why us?
· The true start-up experience. Be one of our first team members – an integral part of the company and have the ability to truly shape the journey.
· Work on a meaningful problem – there are millions of uploads on social media every minute – finding the best stuff can be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
· Join a bright, young team with a passion to create impact.
· A genuinely vibrant and exciting sector.
· Lots of responsibility and autonomy from day one.
Some of the things you will be working on:
· Main focus: Backend Dev for android & ios using AWS serverless services.
· Main: Building a weighted random algorithm that learns and optimises what users watching experience based on their data.
· Preferable: knowledge and understanding of analytic tools and garnering data driven insights.
· Growth through tech – involved in growth hacking solutions. E.g. clever APIs to link and communicate with other platforms to grow user base.
· Generally solving problems!
· Input on company direction and tech strategy.
What we are looking for:
· Talent meets hard work. Skill + will!
· Collaborative, self-motivated and fast learner.
· Get better everyday.
· Code lean and powerful solutions quickly.
· Genuine passionate for technology + innovative solutions.
· You care deeply about building reliable, well-tested systems.
· Additive team impact. Helps the team perform as well as him/herself.
· Experience & proficiency in building mobile applications & their accompanying back-end technologies. (We are using a hybrid framework – knowledge of both native android and iOS languages is preferable – Back end is built off back of AWS serverless infrastructure.)
· Awareness of technologies across the stack.
· Passionate about our mission.
· Desire to take our tech to the text level.
· Intellectually curious, constant hunger to learn and improve.
· EQ > IQ!
· Optional: Gifted table tennis player.
· Compulsory: Sense of humour.
· Great energy and can-do attitude!
· Right to work in the UK.
Current Stack:
· Backend – Built on AWS serverless services.
o Website hosted on S3
o Website developed in EmberJS
o Admin panel developed in AngularJS
o Data stored in DynamoDB database
o Database for admin panel – Postgres on RDS
o Backend functionality developed using Lambda (in Javascript NodeJS)
o AWS Cognito for user authentication
· Application
o Developed in Ionic Framework (JS)
o Minor integrations/features made native languages in android; java and iOS; objective c/swift respectably. (less than 1%)
What we offer:
· Pay: £32.5k – £40k – TBD
· Equity 1.5% – 2.5% – TBD
· Vibrant work space in central location in central London – Soho
· Entertaining & exciting problem.
· Creativity actively encouraged.
· Also strongly encouraged to spend 20% of your time to learn and develop (including a monthly budget for any books, audio, online courses, learning materials or anything else you need to get better!)
· Shape the future of content discovery and social media.
· Lots of responsibility and autonomy from day 1
· Opportunity for pay rise and leadership roles upon further expansion.
· Fun, relaxed atmosphere
· Monthly team drinks and luncheons.