Web Developer

Web Developer (Majority Front End)

Salary between £35-40k Commensurate with experience

Auris is a London and Edinburgh based startup that is building a market-leading automatic speech recognition engine for reading. We have been developing our cutting-edge ASR engine in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and have achieved a market leading recognition accuracy level. We have recently secured an investment from the University of Edinburgh’s Endowment Fund, and have office space on the university campus, allowing us to work closely with our academic partners.

We are currently designing an app to aid readers at school level and are seeking a motivated and skilled Web Developer to join our team, predominantly with a front end specialism.

We are looking to launch in the UK towards the end of the year, but have global aspirations that we will be working towards over the next two years. As this is an education product it is highly desirable that you have a keen interest in education and children’s learning.

Some of the key responsibilities included in the role are

• Writing code in one or more programming or scripting languages, such as PHP or JavaScript

   

  Planning and prototyping new applications

   

  Designing the architecture of the components of an application

   

  Testing sites and applications in different browsers and environments

   

  Fixing bugs in existing projects

   

  Building and testing Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for applications to exchange data

   

  Meeting designers, developers and project staff for progress updates

   

  Refactoring and optimising existing code

   

Required Skills

• 3+ years experience in web development with a front end emphasis

   

  Knowledge & skills in HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript

   

  Have a good working knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as Vue, React, Ember or Angular

   

  Experience building web apps that consume remote data in standard formats such as JSON

   

  Have a keen eye for good user experience design and can build intuitive web interfaces

   

  A good understanding of cross browser compatibility and responsive development

   

  Experience with front end toolchains such as NPM, Bower, Webpack and Gulp Beneficial

   

  As our backend services are primarily written in PHP using  MySQL databases, some knowledge of these would be beneficial

   

  Understand the challenges of iOS device UI development including retina display, multiple image resolutions, storyboards, auto-layout etc as well as when to use them and when not to.

   

  Experience of agile project management approaches

   

  Familiarity with Git source control

   

Key skills

• The ability to work with a rapidly evolving product

   

  Comfortable working as part of a team or alone as the project so requires

   

  The ability to write clear, concise and well-structured code

   

  An understanding of the differences between mobile and web UI paradigms and an ability to interpret functions for the best advantage of the user

   

  Experience with issue tracking tools

   

  A passion for improving children’s reading outcomes

   

Benefits of working with Auris

• You will be working within a rapidly expanding start-up company where the potential for career progression is likely to be high.

   

  We offer flexible working hours

   

  Competitive salary

   

  21 days paid holiday

   

  Possibility of working remotely