ApplinSkinner are on the look out for a technical lead to champion our procedures, build relationships with clients and support our most complex projects.
Responsibilities of the technical lead:
- Translate client objectives into technical specifications
- Work the project management team to smooth running development tasks
- ‘Hands on’ development for both front and backend tasks
- Champion our internal development processes
- Work with senior management to develop the skills and happiness of your team
What we need from you:
- A leader wants to take responsibility for a team and their output
- Good business acumen
- Good communicator that is happy to be involved in client meetings
- HTML5
- CSS including Preprocessors such as Sass and Less
- Javascript and jQuery, knowledge of React and/or AngularJS highly desirable
- Knowledge of version control systems such as git, Mercurial
- Can reproduce designs to a pixel perfect standard
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to work to deadlines
We like knowledge or experience of:
- Configuring and using frontend technologies such as Webpack, Babel and gulp
- JavaScript (including the latest ECMAScript standards, jQuery, React, Vue)
- PHP (WordPress, Laravel, Statamic, SilverStripe, PrestaShop, Symfony, Magento)
- Docker (Rancher would be a bonus)
- Using git
- Relational databases (MySQL/MariaDB, Microsoft SQL)
- System administration for Linux-based servers (Red Hat/CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu)
- Problem solving in development and production environments
Bonus points for:
- Go and C# knowledge
- Experience with Elasticsearch
- Experience with tracing and profiling (Zipkin, Kafka, xdebug)
- Experience with analytics and monitoring (Grafana, Kibana)
- Knowledge of key-value databases (Redis, LevelDB, RocksDB)
- Knowledge of document databases (Couchbase)
- Knowledge of microservices and RPC (protobufs/gRPC, Apache Thrift)
- Experience with system administration for Windows-based servers
What we can offer you:
- A great remuneration package with equity options
- The autonomy to shape a development team as you see fit
- Flexible holiday allowance. A minimum of 28 days (including bank holidays), with additional days available on request depending on project commitments
- Additional time off at Christmas when office is closed (this depends on which day Christmas falls)
- Flexitime: We believe your job should fit around your life
- Optional two days per week work from home
- Open-plan dog-friendly office including starter pack of 1 office dog
- Annual training budget: We’ll help you develop professionally
- Nice clients (honestly!)
- A great team of designers, developers and other marketers to work with and learn from
A little bit more about us:
ApplinSkinner are a team based in Seymour House, Norwich and we specialise in helping businesses grow and evolve by taking advantage of digital technologies. It is our belief that to do a good job in 2018, that designers, developers and marketers all need to work together to build the best possible end product.
Apart from our Norwich base, we have a roster of clients from all over the world from Seattle to Brisbane and every year we’re actively involved in supporting local charities with either fund-raising or pro-bono work.
Day to day, we’re guided by a strong ethos around transparency and honesty; both internally with each other and importantly, our clients. This is central to our long-term vision and we find it makes life a lot less stressful!
If this sounds like you, please send a covering email and CV to [email protected]