Unmade is a global fashion software company driving innovation
through customisation and delivering an end-to-end digital solution for
on-demand production at scale. Started by Hal Watts, Kirsty Emery-Laws
and Ben Alun-Jones in 2014, the company was born out of a desire to
reimagine both the design and manufacturing processes within the fashion
industry, so brands only make what is actually sold, resulting in
minimal waste. It then officially launched as Unmade in 2015, having
previously been called Knyttan.
We were nominated for the LVMH Innovation Award at VivaTech in Paris,
and in 2017, we won the Best Use of Innovation at the Drapers Digital
Awards in London.
Furthermore, Unmade was most recently named as one of the 100 best
creatively led businesses in the UK by The Creative Industry Council,
and in May 2018, it completed the Lafayette Plug and Play program as
part of the renowned Plug and Play innovation accelerator. Pieces from
Unmade are now a part of the permanent collections at both the The
Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in
London.
We work with 4 out of the 25 largest groups in the fashion industry,
and in addition we have clients like Farfetch, Opening Ceremony,
Christopher Raeburn, Rapha, Moniker, and others, which work with us to
give their customers the option to customise the products they want.
We are a team of 30 people working across Engineering, Design &
Product, Sales & Marketing, Customer Success, and Operations, and
are based at Somerset House, one of London's most important and exciting
cultural landmarks.
What’s it like working at Unmade?
- We are doing work we care about, and we are supportive of others to do the same.
- We have fostered a culture of collaboration and we believe in
exchanging information and learning from each other - no one is
unapproachable, and everyone’s ideas matter.
- We believe that potential is more important than experience, and
hire accordingly. Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills and
experience we’re looking for today - apply anyway! In fact, many of our
colleagues started here with little experience and learnt on the job.
- We believe that what you build is just as important as how you
build it, and that technology is just as much about people as it is
about code. We are building a product where people with little to no
technology experience can be involved in an element of the creative
process, and are constantly thinking of ways to make it better and more
seamless.
- We strive to be transparent in everything we do, and share both
our successes and failures with the rest of the team. As a result, we’re
comfortable that even if things don’t always go as planned, we are
always doing our best.
About the role:
We’re building a SaaS product, and you will be building upon existing
systems and help shape the architecture of the platform. Our technology
stack covers everything from dynamic UIs, graphics programs and order
processing, to custom language compilers for industrial knitting
machines.
Our UIs enable consumers to customise physical garments via their
browser. This means building and maintaining rich interactive UIs,
modelling garment customisation in data, and aspects of 2D & 3D
graphics. It is a versatile and exciting role that will allow you to
learn and to develop your skills further in an inclusive and supportive
environment.
To be successful in this role, you will need to have:
- Experience writing modern Javascript
- Exposure to building web UIs (perhaps by using a library or framework)
- An eagerness to learn
- Empathy in your communication
- A desire to contribute to an inclusive and positive working environment for everyone
Nice to have (but not required):
Experience with:
- React/Vue
- Testing
- Web/Browser performance
- Accessibility
- Node.js
What we will not do during your interviews with us:
- Create a very rigid interview process that doesn’t allow for the
conversation to flow. We will make sure we cover everything we need to
know from you, while also allowing you to ask questions and get to know
us and the team better. This is as much about you interviewing us as it
is about us interviewing you.
- Ask where you see yourself in 5 years. It’s not that we don’t
care, but things are likely to change anyway. Maybe you’ll still be with
us? :)
- Make you feel uncomfortable, especially if you don’t know the
answer to a question. We will also not ask you questions whose answers
we don’t know ourselves. Instead, we will aim to make our interviews
collaborative and fun (not sure there’s a way to have fun during
interviews, but we’re aiming for it).
- Whiteboard exercises - has anyone ever had to write code on a whiteboard as part of their role?
- Over or undersell the role and the company. We want you to be
aware of and excited about the challenges and opportunities here at
Unmade.
- Keep you waiting - very few things are more stressful during an
interview process than waiting to hear back. Our aim is to take no
longer than one week to get back to you at every stage.