Head of Engineering / Lead developer
Location: GB, WSM, London
Employment type: Full-time
Company profile: Signkick have created Europe’s leading digital platform for ordering, booking and planning Outdoor Advertising campaigns across the UK. Working with leading media format owners, Signkick’s novel platform is revolutionising and streamlining the way in which Outdoor Advertising campaigns are bought, sold and plannedOur mission is to democratise out-of-home advertising (billboards, bus stop, digital screens etc.) by enabling companies of all sizes to book hyper local OOH campaigns – currently focused on the UK with a global ambition.You’ll join a team of experienced founders who have built businesses before and have proven their ability to execute in a highly demanding and uncertain environment. There is a very open culture without politics; whereby what is said is more important than who says it. Signkick is also highly involved in and connected with the London Tech community.No recruiters please.
Description: Signkick is looking for a full time lead developer starting February 2014.Your main responsibility will be building and maintaining the complete Signkick platform – both the GUI and the back-end. You’ll work directly with the founders on the product vision/roadmap and you’ll have full autonomy in terms of engineering. You’ll help us on our mission to bring innovation to an industry that still handles bookings via phone and spreadsheets. We save our customers huge amounts of time when booking advertising through our platform. You will help us to keep delivering that timesaving benefit to our customers and to add more features that will make their lives easier. Development of the product will continue over the years to come and your role in this will be crucial. The Signkick platform is not your average web app and consists of two components:1. The GUI is an online self-service tool (think Google Adwords meets #URL_f7c3db02a9e96f06ba0d3ee82ae77828e0071e332d7de8dcdf23c68f8bb689d0#) where advertisers can search for advertising possibilities and instantly book & pay for them.2. The back-end allows for high volume trading of advertising space and gathers availability from diverse sources. To do this efficiently big amounts of data needs to be stored, precompiled etc efficiently. The stack we currently use:- PHP with Symfony2, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Mapbox, Less, AngularJS, Capistrano, Python (Django), Vagrant, Puppet- CentOS, MySQL (InnoDB), MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Graphite / Statsd, MemcachedWe’re not fixed on this stack - we’re open to alternative options if it is better for the business. You’ll join a team with 3 highly motivated, skilled and experienced founders and a freelance UI/UX designer. They all bring a different skillset to the table. They have built businesses before and have proven their ability to execute in a highly demanding and uncertain environment. On top of that, all of them have just enough technical skills so that you can run things by them and gain a second opinion. There is a very open culture without politics; whereby what is said is more important than who says it. Signkick is also highly involved in and connected with the London Tech community. 
Requirements: You must…- Be heavily experienced with PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, HTML/CSS/jQuery- Have profound knowledge of one or more PHP frameworks (Symfony2 is preferred)- Be able to perform basic DevOps tasks like releasing on and maintaining the DTAP environment- Love startup life, work in a lean & agile environment- Learn fast- Not suffer from the NIH syndrome- Last but definitely not least: you must be a nice person It helps if you…- Have worked in a start-up (environment) before- Have experience with most of our stack- Have a university degree in Computer Science or related discipline- Have a ‘let’s take over the world’ mentality- Enjoy Dutch traits – eating pancakes, humour and directness
Benefits: - An opportunity to join a startup team in the early days - with salary!- A real challenge and interesting / diverse work- Valuable experience – since you work in a small team, you’ll get unique opportunities and learn a variety of skills- A place where creativity and innovation is highly valued- Market rate salary depending on skills and experience- Share options- Yearly trip to Amsterdam to see the beautiful canals, wooden shoes and tulips- Join us at the numerous parties and network events of the London tech scene- You can BYOD or we supply you with hardware- If you are the right person, you will have a significant role in shaping Signkick and you’ll have the chance over time to build a team around you & grow with the company
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