Full Stack Developer - Manchester

We are Kairos, a collection of award-winning social media companies changing the way the next generation discover, consider and buy from brands on social. Our core offerings include creative strategy, talent management, media publishing, esport strategy, content production & design, data & insights and influencer marketing.

Operating and launching global campaigns from our bases in London and Manchester, our workforce is now 10x bigger than when we started 5 years ago and we’re still growing. Our people bring success to international clients in a space that many traditional agencies are struggling to navigate and we're now looking for our next player.

The Kairos Group houses our social creative agency: Kairos Media, our owned media agency, Kyma, whose content generates 150M+ views per month and Turopium, a full-service management agency specialising in taking a market leading approach to working with talent. We share our offices and ideas, come join the party.

The Role:

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities:

● Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions

● Design client-side and server-side architecture

● Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design

● Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

● Write effective APIs

● Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

● Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

● Create security and data protection settings

● Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design

● Write technical documentation

● Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

Requirements

● Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role

● Experience developing desktop and mobile applications

● Familiarity with common stacks

● Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)

● Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)

● Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design

● Excellent communication and teamwork skills

● Great attention to detail

● Organisational skills

● An analytical mind

● Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field

● Participating in the design and creation of scalable software

● Writing clean, functional code on the front- and back-end

● Testing and fixing bugs or other coding issues.

Benefits

• 20 Days Holiday per year plus a mandatory 10 day block holiday.
• Subsidised bespoke benefits package giving you access to benefits you want (Childcare, enhanced pension, healthcare, gym, Netflix, Deliveroo, you name it, it's on there)
• Mental Health partnership with Plumm giving you access to therapy and counselling, and your immediate family access to a huge range of resources.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity policy as well as enhanced policies for same-sex and non-binary couples.
• Enhanced compassionate leave so you can truly take the time you need.
• Flexible working hours giving you an earlier start for an earlier finish or later start for a later finish.
• Company away days! (Covid royally screwed this but it will return)
• Community days - we give you time off to go support a cause you believe in!
• Plenty of clubs/societies - and if we don't have something that suits then you can always suggest it.
• Holiday office closure & additional time off for religious holidays