Junior Software Engineer

About us

The Beans Group is a successful internet start-up running the UK’s largest student website, studentbeans.com. As we’ve grown in recent years, we have diversified and are now a leading expert in the youth demographic.

Amongst our recent projects is the world’s first online freshers’ fair, freshersfields.com, and we are set to launch a unique local social mobile platform for companies to drive real business.

With our dedication to what we do and lofty ambitions for the future, we’re always looking for talented, like-minded young people to join our team.

About this role

We’re looking for a junior software engineer to work in our growing Production team. You’ll get the chance to learn directly by working alongside highly experienced colleagues, gaining practical expertise within a range of frameworks.

This role offers:

• The chance to work on something that makes a genuine impact
• A fantastic opportunity to learn new skills and develop existing ones
• Involvement throughout projects with the chance to contribute ideas
• Real responsibilities from day one
• A competitive salary, working as part of a young and vibrant team

About you

Essential:

• Experience with OOP languages
• Ability to demonstrate team and project-based work
• Strong communication skills
• Eagerness to learn
• Passion for web development

Desirable:

• Familiarity with Ruby, Rails, Java, Python and PHP frameworks
• Experience of TDD and BDD
• Past work on open source projects

If you think you match this profile, we’d love to hear from you.

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Recruitment Agencies

Close working relationships are built over time (not through the hard sell approach). If you would like to be included in our review list please email recruitmentreview [at] thebeansgroup.com. We don’t accept sales calls, if you choose to contact us in this manner you will be excluded from our review list.