we're constantly looking for makers and hiring the best of them
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We're always looking for makers. People who know lots, pick up lots more along the way, enjoy working with each other, and get the job done. At MetaBroadcast, it's fast, it's high quality, it's open: always up for comments and improvements. It's less talking and more making. It's weekly iterations where each person cracks five big problems and fifteen small ones and helps others along. Makers have fun doing all this, because this is how they do things all the time, this is what makes them happy, this is how they go through life.
Do you recognise yourself? Then meet our recruiting process, check our team out, see how we keep it fun and get in touch at jobs @ metabroadcast dot com or by applying with LinkedIn below. Whether you're after one of the open positions or happy to carve a place for yourself at MetaBroadcast, start by telling us... why you?
| Creative Technologist | Design Ninja | Software Engineer | Systems Engineer |
All MetaBroadcast positions are full-time and based in Central London. Due to the ridiculous policies of the UK government, we're unable to hire awesome people who haven't already got the right to work in the UK. That means we can hire from most, but not all EEA countries, and Switzerland, and we can also hire some Commonwealth citizens with UK ancestry, provided they already have a work permit/ visa. This situation sucks, and we've tried to find ways around it, but it's just not possible at the moment. Washington Post agrees with us.
ALSO. We are keen to hear from candidates, not recruiters. Allowing an agency to charge up to 1/3 of a candidate's annual salary, we'd lose the option to hire one great person for every other three we employ. Worse yet, recruiters are not matchmakers—they don't understand our specific needs and don't have a candidate's best interest at heart; they are solely driven by money, and we see them every day convince lovely folks to take jobs they are going to hate. The candidate we'd like to meet does not need an agency chancing their future. Not any more than they need their neighbour negotiating their mortgage. NO AGENCIES
creative technologist: 2 open positions
Our Creative Technologists bridge the gap between complex technology and real users. They work on an interesting mix of quick prototypes and products that reach the mass market. We build prototypes in collaboration with some of the biggest names in media, but only when we really like the idea. The best ideas turn into real products, which are used across the industry.
HTML and Javascript in the browser are the mainstays, but the jobs also include a big dose of sketch wireframes, and some back-end code. Existing experience with iOS, Android and server-side Java would be valued, and otherwise we’ll give you plenty of time to learn. We don’t expect you to know all about Hadoop, Storm and the latest data processing technologies, but working with our Software Engineers will bring you right up to speed.
We are makers—we spend most of our time making things, not just talking about making things. We’ll always be smaller than other teams with comparable ambitions, and we believe this makes for a better life. Everyone can have their say, work on things that matter to them, and see the results go live to millions. Joining us means real engineering challenges, hard but satisfying work, plenty of opportunity to learn about and use new technology. And quite a few perks.
Whether you’re starting out or writing the book, if this sounds like a breath of fresh air, we'd love to talk.
Find out more about our recruiting process and shares scheme, and apply now
design ninja: 1 open position
Design Ninjas at MetaBroadcast create user experiences for our products and the client prototypes we build. They work closely with engineers in building and iterating systems and features that process and present vast amounts of data in useful, elegant, and responsive interfaces. Some of these are seen by thousands but maybe used once a week, while others seen by a select few but used a dozen times a day. We’re talking complex widgets, realtime data visualisations, analytics dashboards, mobile apps, product sites and even the odd print product.
Solid design thinking, awareness of technologies and tools used in design and software, and a holistic view of the domain are the core skillset of Design Ninjas. Critical thinking in employing the right process and tool for getting the job done are essential. A track record in web or mobile design, usability, information architecture, animation, user experience, photography user testing, colour theory or typography help in both getting started and diving deeper in areas of interest. Your challenge and drive are to find creative solutions for the online experiences of tomorrow.
We are makers—we spend most of our time making things, not just talking about making things. We’ll always be smaller than other teams with comparable ambitions, and we believe this makes for a better life. Everyone can have their say, work on things that matter to them, and see the results go live to millions. Joining us means real engineering challenges, hard but satisfying work, plenty of opportunity to learn about and use new technology. And quite a few perks.
Whether you’re starting out or writing the book, if this sounds like a breath of fresh air, we'd love to talk.
Find out more about our recruiting process and shares scheme, and apply now
software engineer: 4 open positions
Software Engineers at MetaBroadcast build practical distributed systems. We’re the first to adopt AWS, NoSQL (Mongo, Cassandra), Hadoop, Storm (and whatever comes next) when they help us solve difficult problems. We code in Minimalist Java, with the occasional prototype in other languages. We work hard to make sure our build, test, monitoring and hosting systems are nice to use. Our blog posts and talks have established an audience.
The systems we run process huge volumes of data about broadcast and live events (TV, radio, music, social, etc.) in realtime or near. We run sophisticated analytics to help end-users find content, and help clients understand how their content is used. Performance is really important: we want our user interfaces to be fast and responsive, and we process too much data to afford the costs of badly engineered systems.
We are makers—we spend most of our time making things, not just talking about making things. We’ll always be smaller than other teams with comparable ambitions, and we believe this makes for a better life. Everyone can have their say, work on things that matter to them, and see the results go live to millions. Joining us means real engineering challenges, hard but satisfying work, plenty of opportunity to learn about and use new technology. And quite a few perks.
Whether you’re starting out or writing the book, if this sounds like a breath of fresh air, we'd love to talk.
Find out more about our recruiting process and shares scheme, and apply now
systems engineer: 1 open position
Systems Engineers at MetaBroadcast do amazing things. Our systems service millions of end-users with large amounts of data, in realtime, and according to demanding SLAs. We’re always adding features and making things work better. At MetaBroadcast we don’t tolerate systems with poor performance just because there might be a CDN on the front, or poor uptime like everyone would allow a scrappy B2C startup, or slow change like in a big company. We’re about fast, reliable, scalable, and ever improving.
Our systems make heavy use of the latest technology, especially where they easily distribute across instances and datacentres. Cassandra, Hadoop, Storm et al are our friends. We’re currently hosted entirely on AWS, but we’re not wedded to them. Our instances are Livestock, not Pets. We have good tools for automatically managing them, because there’s no time to massage instances individually. Finally, we’re very proud of our monitoring, which can graph almost anything, and quickly see the alerts that matter. This makes the life of a Systems Engineer much more pleasant, and allows support duties to be shared with Software Engineers.
We are makers—we spend most of our time making things, not just talking about making things. We’ll always be smaller than other teams with comparable ambitions, and we believe this makes for a better life. Everyone can have their say, work on things that matter to them, and see the results go live to millions. Joining us means real engineering challenges, hard but satisfying work, plenty of opportunity to learn about and use new technology. And quite a few perks.
Whether you’re starting out or writing the book, if this sounds like a breath of fresh air, we'd love to talk.
Find out more about our recruiting process and shares scheme, and apply now
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