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The Company:

BaseKit (www.basekit.com) is a WYSIWYG website development platform with the aim of Maximising design whilst Minimising time. We currently have approximately 40 people in the BaseKit family split between London (design and sales/marketing teams) and Bristol (R&D). The company has been developing its platform product for the last 2 years and has achieved some great accolades in the industry.

We’re a young organisation with a typical start-up mentality of getting the job done, we believe in a friendly and relaxed working environment but all agree when we need to put in that extra bit of effort we pull together for the common goal.

Current Job Vacancies:

Front-End Developer - Bristol

The Role:

Due to the growing list of features we’ve planned to deliver and the growing customer base, we’re looking to expand our development team, the role involves:

Working closely with the London design and UX teams to ensure accurate translation of their requirements into functional and visual enhancements.
Willing to travel to London, i.e. once a week.
Working as part of the development team and delivering features to an agreed specification and a high quality.
Working in an agile development environment with fellow developers and testers.
Liaising with product management teams to ensure a common understanding of requirements.
Proactive investigation and recommendation of improvements to the platform from both a technical and business perspective.

The Candidate:

The ideal candidate will possess the following experience and skills:

HTML/CSS3
Javascript / jQuery
Photoshop CS4+
PHP 5 (Object Oriented)
Advantageous :
- Agile SDLC
- MySQL
- AJAX
- Zend Framework

Please submit your CV and cover letter to jobs@basekit.com

Developer - Bristol

The Role:

Due to the growing list of features we’ve planned to deliver and the growing customer base, we’re looking to expand our development team, the role involves:

Working as part of the development team and delivering features to an agreed specification and a high quality.
Working in an agile development environment with fellow developers and testers.
Liaising with product management, design and UX teams to ensure a common understanding of requirements.
Integration with 3^rd Party APIs.
Proactive investigation and recommendation of improvements to the platform from both a technical and business perspective.

The Candidate:

The ideal candidate will possess the following experience and skills:

PHP 5 (Object Oriented)
HTML/CSS
Javascript
MySQL
Agile SDLC
Advantageous :
- Experience of using Amazon Web Services (S3/EC2)
- jQuery
- AJAX
- Zend Framework

Please submit your CV and cover letter to jobs@basekit.com

Infrastructure Engineer - Bristol

The Company:

The Role:

Due to the continued expansion of our LIVE platform and the international rollout of the BaseKit product, we’re looking to expand our team with the addition of an infrastructure engineer, the role involves:

Maintenance and Support of the LIVE environment
Release planning and management to the LIVE environment
Build and management of STAGING/PRESTAGING environments
Support for third party partners running white label editions of the BaseKit platform
Management of Amazon Web Services and other 3^rd party cloud providers
Implementation of system monitoring
Capacity and scalability planning in-line with business expansion.

The Candidate:

The ideal candidate will possess the following experience and skills:

Working as part of an infrastructure team for a customer facing web based platform
Build, configuration and administration of Linux based environment (ideally Ubuntu)
Some experience of configuration and administration of MySQL 5.x in a Linux environment
System monitoring tools
Advantageous:
- Amazon web services
- - Amazon Cloudfront
  - EC2 and Load Balancing
  - S3/EBS
- PHP
- Rackspace Cloud services

Please submit your CV and cover letter to jobs@basekit.com

Test Engineer - Bristol

The Role:

Due to the complexity of the product and the enormous task of ensuring quality and reliability we’re looking to expand our R&D team, you’ll be working closely with fellow testers and the development team in performing the following tasks:

Testing the platform by executing defined testing scripts.
Modifying testing scripts to match changes in functionality in line with the Agile software development process.
Accurate recording of defects and ensuring these are passed to the relevant person and managed until closure.
Liaising with the support team to ensure LIVE issues are recorded and fed back to the support team once rectified.
Working closely with the development team to ensure a common understanding of requirements for new features before, during and after implementation.
Proactive investigation into testing methodologies, tools and processes that will improve quality and reliability of the product.
Experience of maintaining and executing test scripts against a web based platform
Cross-browser experience in both a PC and MAC environment
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, encompassing:
- Clear and concise explanation of defects
- Detailed description of steps required to reproduce defects, as well as actual and expected results
- Ability to assess the priority and relevance of test scripts based on features in development and planned for the sprint
- Experience of working in an Agile development environment
- Use of defect tracking system (ideally Unfuddle)
- Advantageous: Experience of automated testing (ideally Selenium)

The Candidate:

The ideal candidate will possess the following experience and skills:

PHP 5 (Object Oriented)
HTML/CSS
Javascript
MySQL
Agile SDLC
Advantageous :
- Experience of using Amazon Web Services (S3/EC2)
- jQuery
- AJAX
- Zend Framework