Lead Front End Developer
Location: GB, , 
Department: Production
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Production
Company profile: The Beans Group is a media company that exists to empower young people to thrive.  We have been on an exponential growth spurt since our inception as #URL_8d1ca4faf2d2518ce9ec21b3fbe5c63e4b47f383d6bb1f0a681ff6cc801b4550# in 2005 and in 2013 we won Digital Business of the Year. The Beans Group owns two brands: Student Beans, our youth media brand, strives to make life a little more awesome; and Voxburner, our youth insights consultancy, helps young people to be understood.We have created a business we are passionate about and really proud of. To continue to grow we need brilliant people who inspire and deliver change all around them - that's why we're looking for talented, ambitious and creative folks to come and join us.
Description: Come join The Beans Group, Digital Business Of The Year 2013, in this Lead Front End role as part of a knowledgeable and passionate team, backed by a fully self-funded start-up, helping fuel international expansion plans.This unique opportunity involves taking the technical lead in architecting and delivering front-end solutions, acting as your own project manager, to maintain and scale our products, which already reach millions of users per month. Examples of things we're building include: a location based mobile app on iOS & Android, scaling an editorial platform (which currently serves millions of users/month), an innovative job board application and iterations on the recently launched #URL_965ede282d860adcae0fcbc4b7aa1684dc02ef45a7bbf8d45eda061074f836de#. We're also in the process of scaling various products into new countries so internationalisation is a big part of our roadmap going forward.You will be free to use and advocate for bleeding edge technologies. We love open-source and web technologies.You’ll be remunerated well, given training and development, and brought in to a vibrant organisation housed in new, purpose-built offices in Kentish Town, with your your pick of new Apple hardware to work with.  About usThe Beans Group developed from a successful start-up into an award-winning technology & marketing company. Our flagship product, #URL_8d1ca4faf2d2518ce9ec21b3fbe5c63e4b47f383d6bb1f0a681ff6cc801b4550#, is the UK’s leading website in the 18-24 demographic, and we have developed multiple other youth focused web and mobile products. Voxburner, our insights arm, produces thought-leading content, events and research projects for businesses keen to gain insight into the youth demographic.Here, the culture is values driven, incorporating our employee-created values into everything we do; whether it be creating fun, celebrating mistakes, creating results that WOW, putting the cherry on top, or showing we care.2013-14 is a huge year for us, as we look to scale up existing products, bring online new ones and expand internationally. Our development team is key to our success, working closely with our in-house designers, UX strategists as well as product managers, and we’re looking to double our existing capacity in the short-to-medium term. ------------------------------Recruitment AgenciesIf you want to work with us on this role, please take a look at our instructions here. We do not work with agencies in any capacity other than this and do not take sales calls under any circumstances. If you ignore these simple guidelines, we can't work with you. They'll tell you everything you need to know. 
Requirements: Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and browser compatibility issues;Experience with CSS-meta languages (SASS, Compass);Experience with markup abstraction languages (HAML);Experience with Javascript transcompiler languages (Coffeescript);Responsive design;Desirable: exposure to Ruby on Rails, TDD and Mobile development.
Benefits: Multiple Award-Winning Company and Brands; Entrepreneurial Startup Culture with Security of being Fully-Self-Funded; Major Growth Plans; Awesome Team; Competitive Salary; In-House Training and Development; International Opportunities; Childcare Vouchers and On-Site Childcare Facilities; Discounted Gym Membership; ad hoc Partnership Discounts (e.g. Tastecard, Local Dining Establishments); Office Remote-Control Helicopter Collection.
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