Front End Developer - Twickets
We are able to offer fully remote working with the option to visit London for team building/social events!
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Future Platforms are recruiting for our sister company, Twickets!
Twickets was created by music fan Richard Davies, who made the simple observation that real fans don’t want to rip other fans off. When we have tickets we can no longer use, most of us don’t want to sell them for a profit. We just don’t want them to go to waste and are really happy if we can get our money back. So Richard set up Twickets as a service on Twitter, connecting fans and allowing them to trade with each other at strictly no more than face value.
Today, Twickets is the largest fan-to-fan marketplace for face value tickets and connects fans via both website and app (iOS and Android) across three continents. Thousands of tickets are listed every month for gigs, festivals, sports, comedy, theatre and the arts. We are growing rapidly, and have attracted support from the industry through our event partners, investors and the media. Our platform and technologies are constantly evolving as we strive to innovate and expand into new territories. We allow ticket resale both on a private basis and through integrations with artists, promoters, ticket agencies, sporting organisations and venues.
Our Tech:
Our product consists of a number of user facing front end applications written in a variety of technologies (Angular, bootstrap, Android, iOS and static generated HTML), a core backend and NOSQL database, specialised services modules such as a reservation system, sales and order tracking, ticketing some of which have their own database. Our backend platform is a Java stack, using Spring, CXF, Spring boot, Cassandra, RabbitMQ and Postgres, all running on AWS. We deliver everything through web services (REST/JSON) to the frontend system.
Upcoming projects
We are currently working on or planning to work on the following areas:
- A major redesign of the web site discovery user journey (searching and browsing)
- Loyalty and vouchering
- New payment methods
- A complete rewrite of our mobile apps.
- A redesign and rewrite of our customer services backend in Angular 6.
- Localisation into new languages
Essential skills:
You should be a good communicator, a team player and always improving your own skills and those of others around you. You should have a good Computer Science or software engineering degree or similar from a well regarded university, and/or suitable experience.
- Excellent experience writing clean, responsive HTML & CSS
- Significant experience writing native JavaScript
- Experience building solutions from scratch using Angular
- Ensuring front-end development follows best practices
- Highlighting best practices and recommending new techniques
- Understanding of web design and user experience
- Experience in testing cross-browser and cross-platform
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Experience within Agile software development process
- Version control systems
Other skills:
Experience with the following would definitely be helpful:
- Typescript and/or EC6
- Jasmine
- Git
- OOD
- TDD
- Protractor
- Cucumber
- Vagrant
- One or more mobile platforms
The Benefits
- You will be enrolled onto a workplace pension scheme
- Central London offices very close to Oxford Circus
- Remote working/hybrid working, fantastic work life balance - you tell us what you want!
- Gig / event tickets
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Nurture & development
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Flexible-first working
We offer flexible working to fit your home/life balance. -
25 days of R&R
Plus bank holidays and a 3-day paid office closure for Christmas
R&R is important, so we offer generous leave to ensure you can enjoy your life - because it's not all work and no play.
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Reskill and upskill
When you look good, we look good. We invest in your development with a learning budget, 90-minute weekly training, and a selection of experts, content, and materials to support your growth. -
Employee Assistance Programme & Mental Health First Aid
We all go through tough times. Our confidential EAP programme offers free counselling sessions for you and your family. We also have trained Mental Health First Aiders to provide a listening ear on a range of issues.
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Private health and dental
We look after your health with private health cover from Vitality and dental cover from BUPA to take care of your pearly whites. -
Maternity & paternity leave
We know that navigating a growing family while building a career is challenging enough. We try to lighten the load by offering paid maternity and paternity leave.
Front End Developer - Twickets
We are able to offer fully remote working with the option to visit London for team building/social events!
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