Designer / Developer (Hybrid)
Location: GB, UKM, Farringdon
Department: Engineering:Software Engineering
Company profile: We build software for fashion retailers, to help them make the right commercial decisions about what to sell, and how to price it. Fashion is the 4th biggest industry in the world, so this is actually a huge problem economically, as well as environmentally for everyone in the world. The Guardian called us one of the 20 hottest London startups, and we're a quickly growing team, with a product used by some of the best retailers in the world, and we're backed by the smartest investors in Europe, the same ones who backed Etsy, Dropbox, ASOS and Net-a-Porter.
Description: About EDITDWe build software for fashion retailers, to help them make the right commercial decisions about what to sell, and how to price it. Fashion is the 4th biggest industry in the world, so this is actually a huge problem economically, as well as environmentally for everyone in the world. Both Mashable and The Guardian called us one of the 20 hottest London startups, and we're a quickly growing team, with a product used by some of the best retailers in the world, and we're backed by the smartest investors in Europe, including Index Ventures, who backed Etsy, Dropbox, ASOS and Net-a-Porter.The teamWe bring in the best candidates to meet our existing team, and we make hiring decisions together. Most of our engineering team has the same job title, "Senior Engineer", and we tend to operate by consensus and behave as peers among equals. One of our founders is an engineer, and has focused on making EDITD the place he wished he always worked, and the other has a background in design, which means we're a company that understands and appreciates good design.We use the best tools, and offer the best environment we can. We've got huge scope to innovate and we always welcome fresh perspective. You'll be able to make a bigger impact, and learn more in this job than any you've had before, we guarantee it.The jobYou will have an influence over design, code, information architecture and product, and the way it's expressed through our fat-client (javascript) application, as well as on our marketing site and other supporting web applications.  Fundamentally, you'll be responsible for expressing your vision together with our vision into working products.You will:work closely with the product and data teams, to help them express data and build great interfaces and products.pair with, or work closely with other engineers to share knowledge and work collaboratively on how the products and platform work within the infrastructure.be an opinion leader within the engineering team, and we'll look to you to set the tone for how we design interfaces.want to learn and develop yourself as an engineer and a designer.be a pragmatic, collaborative, and empathetic to the people who will use your work.be a great developer in your own right.have amazing taste, and the skills to realise what you envisage.But you won't:work in an environment where we dictate your processbe micromanaged or work to briefs, or ever "throw work over the wall" for signoffever settle for average quality
Requirements: Essential:Experience, history, and a portfolio of work you've done before.Strong experience with CSS and HTML.JavaScript skills to the level where you're comfortable explaining the difference between == and ===.A good understanding and experience of developing good UX, typography, colour and grid systems.Experience in templates in a high-level web framework environment (such as Django or Rails).A thorough understanding of the Internet, including technologies, standards and best practices in interaction and design.A thirst for knowledge.Extensive experience designing for the web.Software development experience to degree level, or an appropriate degree.A collaborative, friendly approach, good manners, a constructive viewpoint, and a team player.Bonus points:You're familiar with Backbone and Underscore, or Angular, or Ember, or some other JS frameworks.Information architecture experience.Python, Ruby, Go or other modern languages.Experience with DRCS tools such as Git or Mercurial.Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools.Content-distribution networks (Cloudflare, Akamai, etc).
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