Senior Javascript Developer

Job Description

Company Overview:

Our client is one of the most innovative consultancy and technology firms in the UK. Based in London, with top-tier clients across a range of industries.

Overview of the role:

As Senior JavaScript developer, you will work at the heart of a product team on a a world-leading SaaS product for managing an organisation as a system. Product revenues have tripled in the last year as other consulting firms and end-clients have taken on the platform. Your role will be helping the team to grow the product capability and usability. You will drive the solutions to challenges of capturing data in user-friendly ways, and performing data transforms and analytics server-side. You will enhance the capability of the product by refining, distilling and capturing the best analytical solutions. This a key role within the team, with the opportunity of progression into Product Architect position.

They are looking for an extraordinary developer to join an exceptional team and care about your inherent skills, experience, capability and motivation. You will have:

• An innate desire to solve complex problems elegantly while being pragmatic about the reality of commercial software development
• A passion and curiosity about new technologies and experience with a variety of programming languages and platforms
• Ownership of your part of the product solution in a lightweight, highly fluent development process
• Someone who is proud to share and explain their work, brings innovation to the table and is prepared to be wrong

Skills:

• At least 5 years’ experience of JavaScript development on the server and client
• Experience in functional programming
• Strong skills in data analytics and visualisation
• A proven self-starter
• Work well in a small team
• Innovative & creative in finding solutions
• Able to pick up ideas quickly & with a desire to learn

What they are offering:

• Be part of an amazing product team with plenty of successes and even more potential
• An environment where you are challenged and praised for your successes, as well as have the freedom to experiment and make mistakes
• A fun, informal work environment

Ref: RA017 | Published: 17th Dec 2014