Python Developer - Official London Travel App
ABOUTWhat Now?! is an innovative new app that simulates a “live” smartphone experience whilst abroad – without paying for roaming.  Launching shortly as THE OFFICIAL LONDON TOURIST APP in partnership with VisitLondon, the official tourism board and part of the Mayor of London’s office.  Even before launch, the app’s innovativeness was chosen to be showcased by Techcrunch as one of their Top 15 European startups last year at their Disrupt event in Berlin, as well as by PhoCusWright at their Travel Innovation Summit in the US (the largest such event in the global travel industry) as one of 2013’s Top Travel Innovations.  This is a truly exciting opportunity to join an up-and-coming travel startup early on and help shape how travellers use their mobile devices abroad. RESPONSIBILITIES The role is to take on ownership of server-side components of the What Now?! service, under the direction of the CTO and in collaboration with the iOS and Android developers. This will involve a mixture of software development and dev-ops, including design-code-test of brand new functionality, learning and extending the existing systems, adapting for scale, and generally being ready for anything that’s required in this fast-moving startup environment.  You should want to code great apps, always trying to find a better, cleaner, more efficient ways to solve a problem, take on a task, learn quickly, and provide solutions, not just questions. SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF THE ROLE WILL INCLUDE: --           Web-API design and support for new and existing features-           Design-code-test of data collection frameworks, their automation, monitoring and maintenance-           Data processing, including record matching, de-duplication, and automated image handling-           Monitoring and maintenance of production servers, including being on-call for problem resolution-           Performance optimisation for request latency and memory usage-           Statistics collection and reporting 
Title: Python Developer - Official London Travel App
Salary: None
Description: ABOUTWhat Now?! is an innovative new app that simulates a “live” smartphone experience whilst abroad – without paying for roaming.  Launching shortly as THE OFFICIAL LONDON TOURIST APP in partnership with VisitLondon, the official tourism board and part of the Mayor of London’s office.  Even before launch, the app’s innovativeness was chosen to be showcased by Techcrunch as one of their Top 15 European startups last year at their Disrupt event in Berlin, as well as by PhoCusWright at their Travel Innovation Summit in the US (the largest such event in the global travel industry) as one of 2013’s Top Travel Innovations.  This is a truly exciting opportunity to join an up-and-coming travel startup early on and help shape how travellers use their mobile devices abroad. RESPONSIBILITIES The role is to take on ownership of server-side components of the What Now?! service, under the direction of the CTO and in collaboration with the iOS and Android developers. This will involve a mixture of software development and dev-ops, including design-code-test of brand new functionality, learning and extending the existing systems, adapting for scale, and generally being ready for anything that’s required in this fast-moving startup environment.  You should want to code great apps, always trying to find a better, cleaner, more efficient ways to solve a problem, take on a task, learn quickly, and provide solutions, not just questions. SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF THE ROLE WILL INCLUDE: --           Web-API design and support for new and existing features-           Design-code-test of data collection frameworks, their automation, monitoring and maintenance-           Data processing, including record matching, de-duplication, and automated image handling-           Monitoring and maintenance of production servers, including being on-call for problem resolution-           Performance optimisation for request latency and memory usage-           Statistics collection and reporting 
Requirements: Not Applicable experience, Unspecified education
Fraudulent: No