Full-stack Developer

Are you looking for the next chapter in your career journey? You’ve come to the right place. We are always happy to hear from people who love learning and have their heart in the right place. Welcome home.

We’re looking for Full-stack developers to join our team at Futurice UK, you’ll join our highly collaborative, cross-functional product teams, working closely with clients and users to co-create intuitive, impactful and accessible design solutions. We’re looking for someone who shares our excitement about innovative, beautifully crafted digital experiences that have a positive impact on people’s lives.

We’re a team of designers and software engineers working hard to create a progressive environment, culture and capability in the UK market. We’re working with some highly respected brands who value our ability to bring together design and engineering and get things to market quickly, while building their capabilities in tandem. Currently we run all of our client and team sessions remotely, but in future, we will expect all employees to be available to work on client sites if required and be within reach of London for regular full team sessions.

Does this sound like you?

• Whether it's JavaScript frameworks, REST APIs, NoSQL databases or DevOps web is your thing!
• To you, a browser is not just a rendering tool, it's your medium of choice
• You are equally comfortable with frontend and backend technologies along with their infrastructure. You might have a preference or even a speciality in one of them; however, we'd expect you to be flexible and work across the whole stack
• You have the proven ability to implement complex, multi-layered services using a modern application stack such as ReactJS/Typescript for the frontend and Node.js for the backend, but are by no means limited by those choices
• Ambitious self-starter and have a desire to be part of a workplace with a lean, flat structure, built on a foundation of Nordic straight forwardness
• Eager to learn and grow in collaboration with wonderfully nice and extremely talented people, mostly in small, cross-functional teams

Some of the things we expect to see

• Solid understanding of functional programming
• Familiarity with design patterns
• Ability to articulate technical concepts to technical as well as non-technical audience
• Collaborative by nature

Nice to have

• Experience with at least one modern programming framework, e.g. ReactJS
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Data structures, algorithms
• Analytical thinking
• Interest or experience in UI/UX design
• Cloud computing or DevOps skills
• Agile experience, perhaps even as a Scrum Master
• Experience in creating solution proposals for clients
• Willingness to learn and work on a completely different platform (e.g. mobile) when the opportunity arises
• Desire and skills to coach and mentor other developers
• Loves open source and likes to contribute

One or two nice-to-haves would be excellent. Three would blow our minds. Your thing not on the list? We're all about trying new stuff. Drive what you're passionate about. It's the sort of thing you'll have a lot of leeway to do. Above all, developers need to share an excitement about innovative and beautifully crafted digital experiences that positively impact people's lives and deliver real value.

What we care about

Our Culture

We are human first. Mutual respect and trust is essential, as is curiosity, talent and energy. All team members need to be self-starters and have a desire to be part of a low hierarchy work culture built on a foundation of Nordic straightforwardness.

How we work

We’re a talented team of designers, strategists, and software engineers working hard to create a progressive environment, culture, and set of capabilities. In the UK we operate a remote-first setup, centered on London, with regular days spent working together IRL as a full team. We take pride in our craft and a commitment to a people-first, one-team mentality.

Flexibility

Not a morning person? Need to pick up your kids from school? We believe in well-rested people doing concentrated and impactful work. Therefore, we have flexible working hours and locations.

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary
• Company pension contribution of 6%
• Private health insurance
• 25 days of holidays + 1 extra for your birthday
• A tiered parental leave policy, which offers 16 weeks maternity full pay and 3 weeks partner full pay (dependent on your tenure)
• Time and budget for personal development
• Company credit card
• Team get-togethers and a weekly lunch and share
• Team trips and group activities
• A monthly personal wellness budget
• Cycle to work scheme

Don’t worry about whether you’re a 100% fit! Take a look at what we do and what we've done and get in touch. Don’t just tell us where you’ve worked or studied, tell us who you are, where you are heading, and why you want to join us!

More about our process

Please send your CV and a brief covering letter explaining why you would like to work at Futurice UK to joinus@futurice.co.uk

We usually follow the following format for interviews, currently all held remotely:

• 30min video/telephone introductory call with our Talent team
• 1hr interview with 2 people, a developer and a designer
• 1hr interview with 2 directors

Salary: £35,000-£55,000

Inclusion and diversity are critical to the success of Futurice, and we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or any other protected category. We will offer interviews at times that suit your schedule and circumstances. Please get in touch if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to make the process more accessible and convenient for you.