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Sharktank is a great place to work. With an emphasis on collaboration and professional growth, you'll find a challenging and fulfilling position on our team.

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Who we are

Sharktank is a member of the Palatinate Group of companies. We provide IT services and support for the Palatinate Group's leisure and holiday based businesses. These UK-based businesses focus on the Golf, Spa and Horse Racing markets with the majority of the business being generated through YourGolfTravel.com and Spabreaks.com. We are located in the trendy Clerkenwell Green area of London.

We are a small dedicated group of IT and design specialists which is growing to support the rapid development of our sister companies. We are dedicated not only to expanding and improving our current sites and internal systems but also to developing and launching new projects. Along with the Palatinate group we are constantly expanding our portfolio and retaining the buzz that comes with the 'start up' feel and culture.

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What we offer

We'll provide you with all the tools (Mac or PC) that you need to do your job well, and our tech team is moving into a newly-refurbished space later this year. We're based in central London (in fashionable Clerkenwell Green), so there’s lots of opportunity to enjoy oneself outside the office - we like to think of ourselves as a very sociable team!

We can offer a fun, fast-paced working environment, the ability to develop your skills and experience through collaboration with other designers and developers, a competitive salary, and the freedom to put good ideas into production quickly and measure how they perform.

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UX/Frontend Specialist

Summary

We're looking for a talented UX/frontend specialist to help direct the design of new features and improve the experience of existing ones. This person will have a passion for usability, an eye for design, and a flair for simplicity.

About the role

You will work with our close-knit group of planners, designers, integrators, and implementers. Mentoring a small team of front-end developers and designers, you will offer advice and guidance on UX and front-end best practices. Collaborating with our full-stack dev team, you will use Agile methodologies to ensure that maximum value is delivered to our customers at all times.

The role is a mix of UX, UI design, and web development. Working across our portfolio of sites you will look at ways we can improve our user experience. By analysing user flows and interaction patterns you will use industry best practices along with analytics data to determine incremental and pragmatic improvement plans. You will use split testing and customer feedback to ensure that improvements are data-driven.

Duties include:

  • Initiate and lead UI refactors that enable more intuitive user experiences
  • Develop wireframes, behavioural specs, and personas
  • Present simple, elegant, research-backed designs to complex workflows
  • Maintain a user-centered focus throughout the development process, ensuring that designs are usability-tested early and often
  • Act as a knowledge expert and provide advice and recommendations on UX-related issues

Additionally, you should be well-versed in front-end development practices and techniques, and be familiar with the topics of standards compliance, cross-browser compatibility, and graceful degradation. You must be highly skilled in HTML5 and CSS3, and your JavaScript programming experience should not be limited to jQuery. A strong grasp of MVC principles and AJAX techniques is essential. Ideally you will have some experience with client-side JS frameworks such as Knockout, Ember, Angular, or Backbone, and understand the trade-offs associated with their use. Experience or desire to learn more about automated client- and server-side testing and TDD is beneficial.

Our team structure is relatively flat, so the majority of decisions, both technical and otherwise, are made by consensus. You must enjoy communicating and collaborating with other team members as well as stakeholders at all levels. You will often be required to work on multiple projects, so time management and the ability to mentor team members while focusing on longer term goals will be key.

About the candidate

You will enjoy looking for problems and be pragmatic in finding solutions. We encourage all team members to take time during working hours for professional development, so successful candidates will be intellectually curious and able to drive their own self-development. You will be passionate about Agile and not afraid to tell us how we can continuously improve. You will work in a collaborative way with your colleagues using our core values of respect, courage, and freedom, to motivate each other to think big, experiment freely, and share ideas that enrich the whole team. You will care about standards and be comfortable conducting and receiving code reviews. You will not be afraid to ask questions and will take responsibility for ensuring that the finished product meets its requirements.

About the company

Palatinate Group Limited is a UK-based leisure and holiday specialist and is formed in part by Europe’s largest golf travel business (www.yourgolftravel.com) and the UK’s largest supplier of spa breaks (www.spabreaks.com).

Your Golf Travel.com is one of the UK's fastest growing private companies, listed in the Sunday Times "Fast Track 100" four consecutive years (at number 6 in 2010). It also ranked as London's fastest-growing private company. Spabreaks.com launched in 2008 is already the UK's largest supplier of spa breaks and ranked 2nd in the 2012 Sunday Times "Fast Track 100".

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Mid-Senior Developer

About the role

You will work with our close-knit group of planners, designers, integrators, and implementers.  Working on a prioritised list of stories, you will collaborate with others to ensure that maximum value is delivered.  You will attend daily standup meetings with the development team and participate in bi weekly planning sessions where you will estimate and prioritise stories for the coming sprint.

Your daily rhythm will consist of test-driven development, pair programming, and code reviews.  Your tools will include Ruby, Rails, Rspec, Go, JavaScript/CoffeeScript, and Jasmine so you will have to aspire to be a very flexible developer.   You will work with our team of developers helping to analyse project requirements and shape the architecture and design of our systems.

Our team structure is relatively flat so the majority of decisions, both technical and otherwise is made by consensus. You must enjoy communicating and collaborating with other team members.  As a mid/intermediate developer you will be encouraged to mentor junior team members and take part in regular Kata and dojo sessions.

About the candidate

You will enjoy looking for problems and be pragmatic in finding solutions.  We encourage all team members to take time out during working hours for personal development so successful candidates will be intellectually curious and able to drive their own self development.  You will be passionate about agile and not be afraid to tell us how we can continuously improve.  You will work in a collaborative way with your colleagues using our core values of respect, courage, and freedom, to motivate each other to think big, experiment freely, and share ideas that enrich the whole team.  You will care about standards and be comfortable conducting and receiving code reviews.  You will not be afraid to ask questions and will take responsibility for ensuring that the finished product meets its requirements.

About the company

Palatinate Group Limited is a UK-based leisure and holiday specialist and is formed in part by Europe’s largest golf travel business (www.yourgolftravel.com) and the UK’s largest supplier of spa breaks (www.spabreaks.com).

Your Golf Travel.com is one of the UK's fastest growing private companies, listed in the Sunday Times "Fast Track 100" four consecutive years (at number 6 in 2010). It also ranked as London's fastest-growing private company. Spabreaks.com launched in 2008 is already the UK's largest supplier of spa breaks and ranked 2nd in the 2012 Sunday Times "Fast Track 100".

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