An exciting opportunity to join a small but rapidly expanding team focused on providing a new and innovative online service for academic authors, institutions and publishers.
Kudos (www.growkudos.com) helps researchers, and their publishers and institutions broaden the reach and impact of their published articles. This award-winning service has a global client based, including major publishers such as Wiley, Taylor & Francis, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Royal Society. Kudos has over 70,000 users and works with over 60 publishers, societies and institutions from around the world.
As a Senior Full-Stack Developer you will work with our development team and be involved in the development of all aspects of the technical systems, including coding in Ruby, designing database models, automating the provision of AWS infrastructure, building APIs and writing front-end HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
We are a small and friendly distributed team operating 2-week sprints with a strong focus on agile and TDD, so the ideal candidate has great communication skills and takes ownership of code and development. You will have the opportunity to make a direct and immediate impact on Kudos products and see the results quickly.
We have a modern software stack comprising AWS EC2/S3, Ruby, Padrino (based on Sinatra) and Angular, and are constantly looking for ways to improve the way we work.
This role reports to the Kudos Product Director, and will be based at our new offices in Wheatley, 5 miles East of Oxford just off the M40 (2a Ashurst Court, London Road, Wheatley, Oxford, OX33 1ER).
This is an office-based full-time role with a salary of up to £50,000 pa depending on experience, and 25 days’ annual leave.
To apply, please send your CV together with a covering letter outlining why you’re right for this role, to: David Sommer, Product Director • Co-Founder david@growkudos.com
Closing date for applications is 1st February 2016.
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