Description
If you’re smart, passionate about technology and enjoy solving complex technical challenges then you should apply to join our best-in-class tech team. We believe that people are our most important asset and one worth protecting. As such, we’re known for creating an enviable working culture to keep our employees smiling on a day to day basis.We offer things such as flexible hours, remote working, fortnightly hackathons and freedom to work on projects of individual interest to name just a few. In fact, our impressive working culture has recently earned us 1st place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for 2015.
We have two different positions.
1. Senior or Lead Developers who would like to lead a team / projects (fulltime in London) - We envisage the split here being about 70% hands-on coding and 30% leading the team, liaising with product owners on prioritization work, attending iteration planning meetings with stakeholders, delegating tasks to dev team, and making sure we are following Lean / Agile processes correctly.
2. Senior Developers who want to be 100% hands-on coders with no lead responsibilities (this can be fulltime in London OR remote) - This role will be 100% hands on working with our other Devs to code beautiful products for our customers!
Please be aware the salary will vary dependent on experience and whether you are working remotely or onsite in London)
Some of our Current Projects:
Seedy - Our custom built CMS. A hybrid, markdown based, sinatra driven CMS but with a TDD undercurrent. Content changes are no different to backend refactoring. Templates are written in a custom DSL that enforces our style guide while still supporting iterative changes and automatic deployment. Across the company people (including business teams) are now being tagged in pull requests and even writing code!
Aerie - We’re overhauling our data and analytics architecture. Using the latest approaches in event streaming, we are building a brand new data pipeline based on Kinesis and Redshift that will support the analysis of both structured and semi-structured data in near real-time. This will provide rapid and intuitive customer insight to our decision makers, while also providing exciting machine learning capabilities back to our core product offering.
AAA - We are enhancing our new world platform. Our current focus is on security with a view to building out ‘infrastructure as code’ using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, Chef/Puppet and many others. Essentially, we believe a well architected system allows us to avoid unnecessary complexity and can enable individuals to generate great output.
Our Tech Stack
This list changes all the time, as being on the lookout for new technology trials and opportunities is part of our code. We don’t believe in limiting ourselves, or the company. If there are other tools that could get the job done better, we’re committed to exploring them.
Things we believe in:
Have fun! We do ruby coding challenges during lunchtimes over pizza, we have desk beers on a friday, we have several social events throughout the year, we do fortnightly hackathons, we have afterwork clubs like: UX, Data science and Robotics club, we have flexible working hours, weekly 'show n tell' sessions, and lot's more!
Requirements:
About Simply Business
Just minutes from Silicon Roundabout and a champion of SME growth and development,Simply Business is the UK’s largest price comparison site in our sector, specialising in the SME and start-up markets.
‘Build-Measure-Learn’ (from Lean Startup Methodology) is central to our philosophy and 2013 saw us implement it successfully. A couple of years on, and we’re working on mastering it - which is proving a fascinating journey and challenge.
What we can offer:
Awards & Achievements