Are you looking for smart colleagues, meaningful projects, and fresh technology challenges? mySociety is a community of coders and technology fiends using our talents to make the world a better place.
We do this by building useful, high impact, democratic open source web apps like FixMyStreet.com, WhatDoTheyKnow.com and TheyWorkForYou.com, and running projects, such as Alaveteli.org, to help people run tools like these around the world.
We’re hiring open-source-savvy web developers in order to grow our international impact, help us sustain ourselves through commercial work, and increase our reach in the UK.
Why you should work with us
We are a top drawer software development team, and we get to work on stuff that matters. Our sites and projects help people to get important things done: holding politicians to account, extracting information from government, and getting streetlights fixed. And as a mySociety developer you c! an see the benefits and talk to the users, every day.
We’re looking for new developers who will be comfortable working on both charitable and commercial projects, for clients who vary from volunteers (asking for new features) through to big media company clients with high expectations of professionalism.
We’re not dogmatic about languages: if you can work in any of Ruby, Python or Perl you’ll be at home here - we’ll find an interesting project for you. We love Django and Rails, and we’re having fun experimenting with Node.js, canvas, and more.
We’re widely geographically dispersed, and a lot of people work from home (although we’re setting up a central London office too). There is a high expectation of self-direction and self-discipline; our project management style aims to minimize pain and distraction, and leave people to get on with doing great work. If you prefer to work in groups, that’s fine, and if ! you like to plug away on your own, we’ll work to give yo! u projects where that suits too.
You’ll also be collaborating with some amazing volunteers who are incredibly skilled and dedicated in their own right. Being part of mySociety means being in the kind of organisation that is so motivated that the management’s job is often to tell people to take it easy. We welcome people who, deep down, burn to make a difference.
Location
Anywhere in the United Kingdom. We have an office in Central London, and we need you to be willing to travel there up to 12 times a year.
Salary & Benefits
£38-45k plus pension (3% employer contribution, 5% employee). You will be a full PAYE employee.
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