Role: JavaScript Developer (Permanent)

The business:

Every week Rated People helps thousands of homeowners find a tradesmen. Through our closed loop rating system, Rated People tradesmen are rated on quality, value and reliability by homeowners who had work completed by them. Rated People tradesmen get a guaranteed flow of work from quality homeowners, choosing the type of work they want to do, and where they want to work.

Rated People has grown organically to the #1 position in the lead generation market. Backed by investment rounds in December 2010 and December 2011, we’ve been focused on completely refreshing the homeowner and tradesmen user experiences and extending them on to mobile.

In 2012 we’re expanding and extending with a focus on new products, features and technology. Our in house development team is currently 20 strong consisting of 3 scrum teams: 3-4 java developers, a QA, and a front end HTML/CSS/JS/PHP developer.

The role:

Rated People require a javascript web developer to develop functionality for its online consumer and tradesmen sites.

You will be joining at a particularly steep growth period within Rated People, where the technical challenges and opportunities are extensive. This is a great time to cement your experience in a successful organisation. Javascript is set to play a major part in the Rated People technology stack during 2012.

Required technologies (2 years minimum):

  • Mastery of pure JavaScript and native DOM APIs
  • Advanced knowledge of frameworks such as Prototype and jQuery
  • Experience of building HTML5/CSS3 enriched web sites and applications
  • Knowledge of advanced programming techniques, Object-Oriented design, design patterns, TDD etc
  • Experience with Progressive Enhancement and unobtrusive JS techniques
  • An obsessive attention to detail
  • Positive, self-starter attitude with a desire to exceed expectations
  • Must be able to demonstrate examples of work through a blog, portfolio or GitHub account

Desired skills & technologies:

  • Experience building mobile web apps, developing JavaScript that supports iOS and Android
  • Experience developing apps on the Facebook platform, utilising Facebook Canvas and the Graph API
  • Experience building and maintaining large Javascript libraries and frameworks for web sites and applications
  • Experience with Backbone.js, Node.js and CoffeeScript
  • 5+ years experience of web development

Who are you?

A world class software engineer who wants to join a successful, motivated and technically excellent team.