Jiva Technology

Who are we looking for?

We are particularly keen to find one or two more top notch developers. We don’t regard people as fungible resources. We are not big on job titles; we are keen to find people who straddle disciplines and can be an effective part of our team.

We would value the following skills and experience:

It goes without saying that front end development uses accessible, semantic markup to provide structure, enhanced with clean CSS for presentation and unobtrusive Javascript for behaviour. Progressive enhancement is the done thing.

In short you know your stuff.

For example if you write back end code we would expect you to know and be able to explain the difference between: static and dynamic typing; strong and weak typing; object oriented and functional programming. And to explain what design patterns are and when, why and how they might be useful.

If you do information architecture, interaction design or user experience design we would expect you to be able to talk intelligently about user centred design, service design, social software, participatory culture, pervasive media and how we weave technology into the fabric of our lives.

Whoever you are you need to be interested in building something that is ‘of the web not just on the web’.

Interested?

If you are interested in working with us please drop me a mail — with a CV, links to your work and a few lines about why you think we would be a good fit for each other — at petef at jivatechnology dot com, or send a direct message to petef on Twitter.

We’re not setting a deadline because it’s more important to us to find the right people than to find you by a certain date. But we do want to recruit as quickly as we can so the sooner you start a conversation the better.

No agencies thanks. Really, no. Not even to discuss whether we might like a free taster or might want to use you in the future.

What do we offer?

10% time?

Because creativity lies at the heart of what we do we encourage everyone who works here to spend 10% of their time on a personal project. This could be contributing to an existing open source project or working on your idea for the next big thing.

Contact

+44 (0)117 316 9283
Third Floor, St Thomas Court
Thomas Lane
Bristol
BS1 6JG
United Kingdom