idio / London / User Experience, Platform &amp; Operations Engineers, &amp; Agile Testers
idio is a software company whose technology fuses text-mining, high volume web analytics, data mining, and predictive decisioning to understand and engage millions of individuals for major brands like Guinness, Virgin Media, and Urban Outfitters.
We are based just off Great Portland Street, and we have some very smart (but very fun) people in the team. Our work environment is fast-paced, very interesting, and regularly involves toys, table football, beer, and office banter.
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User Experience Engineer: Can develop applications in a cloud-based Linux/nginx/MySQL/PHP (or similar) environment; knows HTML, CSS and JavaScript inside-out; can take problems from definition, through wireframing, UX testing and implementation; is familiar with version control systems, specifically Git; is comfortable with infrastructure-related tasks; has experience of Test Driven Development &amp; MVC
Platform Engineer: Can develop applications in a cloud-based Linux/nginx/MySQL/PHP (or similar) environment; picks up new languages and technologies quickly – we use a number of different stacks (Storm, ElasticSearch, Python, Ruby, the list goes on...); is familiar with version control systems, specifically Git; is comfortable with infrastructure-related tasks; has a degree in Computer Science; has experience of Test Driven Development; approaches problems pragmatically, based upon a deep theoretical understanding of the underlying Computer Science concepts
Operations Engineer: Can develop applications in a cloud-based Linux/nginx/MySQL/PHP (or similar) environment; knows Chef intimately; has experience with some or all of AWS, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Cassandra &amp; Storm; is familiar with version control systems, specifically Git; has a degree in Computer Science
Agile Tester: Can build both a high-level and a code-level understanding of the product to perform thorough testing of frontend, API and backend functionality; will be an advocate for our testing process within the development team; can test in line with our Kanban process, offering testing support from story inception through to production; will involve themselves in all aspects of testing, including but not limited to exploratory, performance, unit, security and load testing
For more information and to apply, check out our careers website at <a href="http://idio.theresumator.com/" >
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