Software Engineer: Go | Node.js | JavaScript (Bristol) TL112

Looking for challenging server side work, building scalable data-driven systems?

Fresh8 Gaming needs people who enjoy using progressive technologies to help advance our behaviour-based ad serving platform.

It’s interesting work in a relaxed start-up like team environment where you can soon contribute to technical design discussions, support high visibility projects and enjoy working under minimal guidance. We’re also proponents of open source technology and we encourage your active involvement in the community

We can support your transition from another programming language. Our software stack is predominantly written in Go and is structured as a service oriented architecture. Data storage is in Elastic for statistics and metrics, with queueing system data stored in Redis. AngularJS and Node.js are used for our CMS solution.

We offer a strong technical challenge and ongoing personal development from the many milestones ahead.

Example projects:
  • Aggregating 3rd party APIs using event messaging systems (Apache Kafka) and horizontally scalable Golang services
  • Refactoring services to scale within a Docker environment and moving to a robust continuous deployment model
  • Contextualising over 90k web pages p/sec using natural language processing, covering a large number of decision trees for specific advertisers
About you:
  • You are positive, hard-working and easy to get on with
  • You have a Computing or numerate degree from a well ranked University, or excellent earlier grades
  • You bring proven coding skills from your time in industry or University projects
  • You adapt quickly and may have used languages such as; JavaScript | Node.js | AngularJS | ReactJS | Golang | Python | Ruby | Clojure | Erlang | Haskell etc.
  • You can apply the principles of clean code to your work through TDD, pairing and review
  • You may be considering other graduate, junior or mid-level jobs such as: Big Data Developer | Back End Developer | Web Developer | Go Developer | Node.js Developer | JavaScript Developer | Clojure Developer | Python Developer | Ruby Developer
Opportunity to work with - training provided:

Go | Node.js | JavaScript | Elastic search | Redis | MongoDB | PostgreSQL | distributed systems | machine learning | data mining | Objective-C / iOS | Java / Android | Linux | Git | and more…

Salary and benefits:

  • £25,000 to £38,000+ (negotiable)
  • Flexible and home working | Unlimited holiday | Great opportunities to grow your skillset using the latest technologies | Personal development time and resources | Conferences budget | Choose your own hardware
  • Travel season ticket loan | Cycle scheme | Team outings | Make contributions to open source

About us:

Fresh8 Gaming is a funded start-up technology company with big ambitions. Our intelligent software makes smart ad-serving decisions to serve the most relevant content to users, based on a deep understanding of their preferences. Being voted ‘Best start-up in Europe’ by the gaming industry, and with Tesco amongst our FMCG customers, we’re expanding into Europe, the US and Australia. Currently with 17 staff in London and Bristol, we need talented people who can become the future of our business.

Locations:

central Bristol, by Temple Meads

Please talk with techfolk, our recruitment partner, to find out more:

0117 318 2447 | [email protected] | http://twitter.com/we_are_techfolk

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