Job Description

Crowd Convergence is looking for top talent to join our small but rapidly expanding team headquartered in Sydney. Our product captures, filters and integrates social media content into live events and digital activations with leading clients around the world including Samsung, Coca-Cola, IBM, AFL and NRL.

We’re seeking Full Stack Developers who are ready to learn new things and use the latest technologies. We want to work with like-minded people who are passionate about what they do and want to build something that users will love. Include a cover letter to tell us why you’re the right fit and share your favourite editor.

You’ll be responsible for

• Contributing towards the evolution of our technology stack
• Contributing towards improving developer productivity and tools
• Building and redesigning product features
• Understanding and optimising user workflow of our product
• Contributing ideas to improve technology and techniques.

Skills & Requirements

Who are you?

You are a highly motivated and enthusiastic developer. You care about your code and have an eye for detail. You are ready to hit the ground running, willing to learn and happy to experiment. You have a passion for social media. You can dissect business and support issues and develop unique and elegant solutions. You’re a team player, thrive in a social environment, and enjoy the chance to celebrate after a job well done.

Essential experience:

• Writing web applications using PHP, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript and/or node.js
• Knowledge and use of relational databases
• Experience with CSS methodologies, cross browser support and building responsive web applications
• Have solid understanding of common web and application architectures and development methodologies including Agile
• Experience and knowledge of Git
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills (Persons not fluent in English need not apply)

Other favourable experience:

• Knowledge of one or more popular blog platforms e.g. WordPress or Drupal
• An eye for great design
• Deployment to staging/live servers
• Experience with Redis beneficial
• Experience with AWS beneficial
• Experience with code level integration of social network APIs (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ etc)
• Knowledge of monitoring tools beneficial

About Crowd Convergence

Crowd Convergence offers tools specifically designed to increase real-time social engagement for a brand’s live events and digital activations. Our platform is focused on communicating with, educating and entertaining audiences via social channels. We seek to provoke a human response and promote a sense of inclusiveness by inviting users to interact with brand experiences through live events and online. We do all of this while protecting a brand’s image through complete control over what is displayed.