Geckoboard is a successful and growing 30-person B2B SaaS startup
based in East London. Our elegant, real-time dashboards solve a
difficult but valuable problem for thousands of paying subscribers, by
taking the complexity out of connecting to their data and making that
data simple for anyone to interpret at a glance. As a result, our
customers unlock data they didn't know they had, connect people and join
up projects, and make better decisions faster.
We have a lot of exciting work ahead and are looking for curious and
creative problem solvers to help develop our product and take it to even
more customers. You'll be joining a friendly team with great people
(see "Who you are") in an environment with empowered developers,
flexible working conditions, and a focus on skill development (see "Life
at Geckoboard").
Who you are
We are looking for a full-time front-end engineer with experience
building single page applications. You'll be passionate about working as
part of a team, and learning from others through pair programming and
peer review. You'll be comfortable liaising with our product designer on
design and implementation. You’ll relish the opportunity to continually
improve an existing product through refactoring and the
removal/addition of features.
More than anything, we value candidates who are excited about picking
up new skills and sharing what they’ve learned with the rest of the
team - for example, none of us knew Go or React.js a short time ago, but
now both are key parts of our stack. We love people with a keen
attention to detail and the willingness to apply it in shaping all
aspects of our product.
Required knowledge and experience
- Knowledge and experience of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Analytical mind and excellent communication on problem solving
- Some experience building a single-page application
Things that might excite you
- React, Backbone, Ember or Angular
- Front end build tools (e.g. webpack)
- SASS
- Agile - Scrum / Kanban
- Responsive web development
- TDD/BDD
Life at Geckoboard
We’re constantly striving to ensure that we offer the most
encouraging, supportive and efficient environment possible. We want
everyone on the team to be empowered to influence our architectural
decisions. The whole team is involved in prioritising and evaluating our
work and we regularly program in pairs to share knowledge, promote
collaboration, and improve our code quality.
We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and
strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to
regularly work from home lets you work in a way that fits you and your
family. We see our contractual obligation to offer 25 days' paid holiday
as a lower bound for everyone in the organisation, not a limit.
We actively contribute to personal and professional development and
have a minimum budget allowance to be spent on courses, conferences, and
books. We also run fortnightly "innovation days", where everyone has
complete freedom to work on anything that interests them, from
contributing to open source, to learning a new skill, or improving our
internal tools and processes.