Senior Developer / Engineer
Location: GB, LND, Farringdon
Department: Engineering:Software Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Computer Software
Function: 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.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 jobAs a senior software engineer, you'll be involved in the development of new client-facing features as well as hacking on internal tools or systems. We are talking full stack here. Your day might range from building APIs, to optimising database queries and building rich experiences on the client.You have a strong CS background and a love for building web applications. You've actually built a few in your time. Our web app is primarily built in Javascript, and runs client side, though the backend services are mostly built in Python.
Requirements: EssentialLove for crafting beautiful, well-tested code. We code primarily in Python, but we really don't care if you are a Pythonista or not. You have the smarts needed to pick it up quickly.Ability to ship things fast. We move fast and deploy quite a few times everyday.Experience in building web applications. You have been using at least one well-known web framework.Fluent in some *nix flavor. Most of our engineers work on Macs or Thinkpads running Linux and our servers run Linux primarily.DesirableExperience with Django.Experience with JavaScript and jQuery.Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL technologies like MongoDB.Open-source contributions.Strong sense of good engineering and architecture.Good understanding of security.
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