Jobs
When it comes to careers, nothing is more important than knowing which one is the right one to take. This week in jobs, we take a look at two web development jobs in the UK and what they have to offer, what they are offering to pay and what benefits are available.
Front End Developer
British Heart Foundation
£40,000 - £49,999 a year
View Job on Google JobsOverview
This exciting newly advertised roll is a great oppertunity to work for the British Heart Foundation charity in the heart of London. The position is full-time and offers a competitive starting salary. The role will take on the lead of Digital Transformation and Customer First programmes as well as making other significant contributions to the British Heart Foundation.
Requirements
The British Heart Foundation are looking for an experienced mid-weight Front End Developer with a computing degree or relevant industry experience. The individual should have strong knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery and related frameworks. In addition to this the successful candidate will have good knowledge on cross-browser compatibility and methods of overcoming specific platform issues.
The candidate is expected to be a strong team player with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work closely with colleagues effectively. The role will see an active amount of communication between our various teams such as business, design and back-end developers.
Benefits
The British Heart Foundation offer a fairly limited range of benefits ranging from annual leave to eyecare to life assurance and childcare vouchers. Perhaps less appealing if you're looking something with lots of benefits or reward.
Software Engineer - Backend
Discord, Inc.
Unclassified
View Job on Discord Jobs pageOverview
Discord are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working individual to join their evergrowing team of passionate gamers who's mission is to bring people together around games. Discord are always looking for new talent and this is just one of their newest opertunities to be apart of that.
The role will include building and running a worldwide distributed real-time communications platform that processes millions of events per second, working wiht a modern tech stack built on GCE with Elixir/Erlang, Python, Go, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch and a hint of C++ where appropriate.
Requirements
The successful candidate for this position should have a minimum 2-years experience in the field of building scalable backend systems, experience deploying Python, Go, Elixir/Erlang backend systems, enjoy debugging a live production system and would consider themselves a self-motiviated individual with the ability to take a high-level goal and deliver the shippable code.
Bonus points will be awarded to candidates with an openness to learning new languages, experience with Erlang VM, WebRTC and DevOps and an ability to show off a passion for projects they are working on.
Benefits
Working at Discord has a large range of benefits such as private medical, dental and vision plans at no extra cost, parental leave for those with children, catered lunches and relocation packages to help sustain the transition for new employees looking to join us here in sunny San Francisco.
Conclusion
As with all jobs there is a lot to look out for in the web development industry. Companies like Discord offer significantely better rewards for working with them over companies like British Heart Foundation. There is also a higher likelihood that the pay for the job at Discord is significantely higher not only because it is a backend development position but because of the company that it is. Throughout researching these jobs and prior research for web development careers I have always found that the bigger more well known companies tend to have the better prospects over more business oriented companies like the BBC or in this case the British Heart Foundation. Which is likely why a lot of people in the web industry move around a lot during their careers or potenitally relocate to America where the job market is much higher than it is here in the UK, not to mention considerably higher pay too.