Why you want to do this
You’re looking for your next adventure. You’ve always wanted to spend time in London! This is a city that can broaden your horizons. It’s a political, economic and cultural hub and there is always something going on. You’ll never run out of things to do!
As Samuel Johnson once wrote: ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’
This is the perfect opportunity for you to discover what London and nearForm have to offer and even better we will provide the roof over your head!
What you’ll be doing
At nearForm, we work with international clients who are industry leaders in their respective fields. Our role is to help them build solutions and platforms; help them to launch new product ventures and fundamentally change how they operate.
Join a highly skilled multidisciplinary product team; typically consisting of designers, front-end and back-end experts, DevOps engineers, and also members of the client team. Follow a modern agile development methodology while helping the client on their journey to transform their existing digital offering.
As a member of the product team, you will be responsible for shaping and implementing digital products; defining, iterating and prioritising the features. You will collaborate with other team members to define user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements. You will coordinate with IT teams and communicate with business stakeholders to set and manage expectations.
The team will be co-located in Central London.
What we ask of you
- 7+ years experience developing at an enterprise level
- Evidence of real-world delivery of solutions and platforms
- An ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Experience with Agile engineering practices
- An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
- Fluent English & outstanding communication skills (written and oral)
- Ability to be on site in Central London for the duration of the project, initially 3 months with possible extension. We will assist you in relocating and provide accommodation.
For Front-end add:
Experience with:
- JavaScript Frameworks must include React
- HTML and CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
- Best practice and design patterns, such as CSS paradigms (OOCSS, SMACSS, and BEM)
- Ajax, JSON and RESTful web services
- Best practice front-end security, familiarity with OWASP top 10
- Modern knowledge of front-end performance
- Build tools such as Gulp, Grunt, Browserify and Webpack
- Versioning tools, in particular, GIT
- Browser testing and debugging
- Cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
- Layout aesthetics, responsive design and mobile web development
For Back-end add:
Experience with:
- JavaScript must include Node.js
- SQL and document-oriented databases
- Ajax, JSON and RESTful web services
- Versioning tools, in particular, GIT
- Testing and debugging
- Cloud architecture and administration
- Systems integration
nearForm is the next evolution of a software company. Our team of exceptional people build better software faster, for our clients and our communities.