Back-end App Developer job in London

We need a super-talented developer who wants to make something they can be proud of!

About us

Bright Little Labs is building a kids media giant for the 21st century. We make kids’ books, games, and products that promote critical thinking, computer science and equality. Our flagship kids story is about Detective Dot - a nine-year-old coder who is on a dangerous mission from the C.I.A. (Children’s Intelligence Agency). Kids can join the CIA and carry out personalised activities on and offline.

We’re growing fast. We started on Kickstarter, reached 30 countries, got Cabinet Office backing, and have won a few of awards. Next up: we’re launching in 22,000 schools, writing the first of 3 books with a not-yet-announced publisher, and making cartoons and games. Boom.

If you believe wholeheartedly in the power of stories and toilet humour to inspire the next generation, get in touch.

Please note, we value smart people over experience and qualifications. If you’re not sure you have the “right background” but love what we do, please apply!

About you

You should be an experienced back-end developer (3 years+) with strong back-end skills for web/mobile applications. Ideally you’ll also have a good appreciation of what goes on at the front-end of web and mobile.

You’ll have experience building user-account oriented applications (e.g. profiles, permissions, preferences) and be familiar with important aspects of back-end development such as data security, authentication, content management and extensibility/maintainability.

We need help with these sorts of tasks

We’re building an online platform serving up user generated content alongside in-house creations such as games and animations. Behind the scenes it will be CMS driven and will tie into a number of 3rd-party solutions (e.g. for CRM). To make this, we need you!

We’re right at the beginning of this project so it’s green-field. The key decisions on how we’ll put this together will be down to you. You’ll be responsible for:

• The technical design of our platform.
• Electing infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and a strategy for scaling.
• Electing technologies and tools to be used (e.g. Node.js, PostgreSQL).
• Lead development of back-end, including CMS and creating APIs (e.g. RESTful).
• Management of version control (e.g. Git).
• Providing technical input on front-end development.
• We offer
• An awesome role helping to define the future of Bright Little Labs. Plenty of responsibility and autonomy from day one.
• Exposure - we're a high-ish profile project and we work with exciting people
• Flexible working arrangements - Mums, dads and pregnant people please apply
• Feel good factor. You’ll be working on a project at the heart of equality, education and technology.
• Fun - we’re building a top-secret spy agency. If we told you more, we’d have to kill you.

You'll require a DBS to work here. Starting immediately in our cosy office in Shoreditch.

Complete the task below and include a short and sweet cover explaining why you would like to work with us. We love pictures!

Task 

Take one hour and a side of A4 paper (really an hour). Plot out how you would build an app (web) that required the combined features of this site and this site.  Please include details such as which services, tools, frameworks etc. you would make use of.

When you’re done, scan/photo your A4 and send it to us via this message from Breezy along with any other information you wish to add. If you need to upload files via Breezy, please name them “Your-Full-Name + File-Description”.