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Every Friday we’ll profile a local company who are hiring. All you have to do is get your application ready.
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About busuu
busuu is the largest social network for language learners with over 40 million users.
From Polish to Portuguese, they offer users self-paced programmes to learn one or more selected languages. Our team of journalists profiled what’s it like to work at busuu back in October.
What they offer
A fast paced environment where you can impact 45 million users. They have a great office near Old Street with foosball tables, a nintendo, and lots of free food and drink.
In terms of benefits, they offer bonuses, private healthcare, equity, and gym subsidy.
English Language Expert
Old Street office – Full Time, Permanent
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Languages, Linguistics or Education studies
- A proven track record teaching English as a second language to multiple age ranges
- Experience creating e-learning content
- Interest and sound knowledge of new trends in e-Learning and language education
- You should have a background in languages and teaching, have worked with a range of content creation, and e-Learning products, and should be excited to work for a start-up where you will have an enormous impact
Apply
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Marketing Assistant
Old Street office – Full Time, Permanent
Requirements
- Proven track record in marketing with strong digital and email skills – experience in SEM/SEO and email marketing is essential
- Exposure to HTML and email marketing software
- Strong analytical/excel skills – must have experience with reporting, analysing and displaying data. Experience using Google Analytics also required.
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven track record in an agency or in-house role
- Team player and highly proactive
- Ability to work quickly and effectively using online web tools and applications
- Must have a degree in a relevant field
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong project and time management skills
- Passionate about technology and language education
- Fluency in Turkish, Portuguese, German, Spanish or French would be desirable
Apply
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Leading Javascript Engineer (Angular JS)
Old Street office – Full Time, Permanent
Requirements
- Must fit the bill of an innovative developer, with deep interest in Internet Technologies and a passion for building ground-breaking online tools.
- Must be able to give accurate estimations of development times for projects, and organise your time to meet project deadlines.
- Should have excellent knowledge and understanding of the DOM, HTML, CSS and cross-browser support. Should also be proficient in object-oriented JavaScript, and skilled in debugging and problem solving.
- You must love to code, thinking of it as recreation rather than work, and have a number of your own projects you have done just for fun.
- You should have a sense of humour, be ambitious, and love the thrill and madness of working in a start-up environment
- Experience managing a team is desirable
Apply
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Senior Android Engineer
Old Street office – Full Time, Permanent
Requirements
- Professional Android development experience, with a proven history of shipping Android apps
- Previous involvement in entire app development life cycle, from project creation through coding & QA to app store deployment
- Good understanding of Android app architecture and use of design patterns
- Strong OO & Java skills, with an appreciation for pragmatism and simplicity in code
- Advanced knowledge knowledge of the Android SDK
- Understanding and fluency with the fundamentals of Android programming
- Experience in developing pixel perfect XML based layouts targeting phones and tablets
- Experience supporting a widely fragmented market using the techniques provided by the Android SDK
- Knowledge of key UI elements in Android: ViewPager, ActionBarCompat, NavigationDrawer
- Deep knowledge of Java, OOP and multithreading techniques.
- Passion for writing clean, neat, maintainable and lousy coupled code. Keen continuous refactorer.
- Ability integrating third party software, such Amazon In-App purchases API, event reporting and analytics libraries, etc.
- At least one Android app developed by you that we could play with.
- Passion for Agile development. Ability to adapt to an Agile process applying value judgement and common sense.
- Knowledge in unit testing in Android (Robolectric and Mockito would be perfect)
- Familiarity with version control systems. Git preferred
- Good understanding of Android UI principles. You will be working with a UX team, but your suggestions and design ideas will be appreciated and considered
- Ability to collaborate in tasks such as the maintenance of our continuous integration server, maintaining our Ant build scripts, helping to better our process, etc - Experience in TDD in Android
- Understanding of PHP, web services and REST APIs. You won’t be writing PHP code, but you will be working closely with out server team
- Some open source code published by you in Github or Bitbucket
Apply
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Interested in featuring your jobs here? Get in touch with Becky Golland