Careers Opportunities
Product Development
· Product Co-ordinator Full time
Product Co-ordinator Team Coordination
Full time
MyDiscountZone.co.uk is looking for a Product Coordinator to join its fast-paced Product team in London.
We're looking for a motivated individual, interested in making a real difference to the UKs leading voucher site. A passion for the startup culture and new web trends is a must. You'll help organise and maintain a smooth workflow across our design and development team, liaise regularly with various departments across the business and help drive our product forward through the management and support of various projects.
Would you get a kick out of putting your stamp on a site and app used by millions? If so, we think this role is for you.
Your key responsibilities:
- Liaising with our Partnerships team to ensure our merchant partners gain the correct coverage.
- Working closely with Design to ensure artwork is produced accurately and on time.
- Testing new features on our apps, mobile and desktop websites.
- Running regular quality assurance sweeps, make recommendations and report any bugs or necessary changes
- Competitor monitoring and tracking
- Assisting with the co-ordination of our product road mapping and product meetings.
About You
- A graduate with a minimum Upper Second Class degree
- You're confident, articulate, you have great interpersonal skills and can adapt to fit into any team
- Naturally tenacious and resilient. You overcome setbacks quickly and identify new solutions when required
- You're organised, you enjoy keeping busy and you're a good multi-tasker
- You're empathetic. This role involves being a 'go between' so it's important for you to understand the needs of others in the company
- A creative thinker, you enjoy brainstorming new ideas and aren't afraid to make suggestions
- You have a real passion for the web
Desired skills:
- Previous product management experience is a huge bonus
- Previous experience working for an online company
- Knowledge of at least one content management system
- Basic HTML skills
- An interest in Photoshop, Illustrator and other parts of the Creative Suite
- A survivor of the 'Cinnamon Challenge...'
We welcome applications from any individual regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age. All applications will be considered on merit.
· Systems Administrator / PHP EngineerFull time
Systems Administrator / PHP Engineer Team Dev Ops
Full time
Located in our London offices, this role is a new function within the growing UK Engineering team. You will primarily be tasked with ensuring the continued uptime, responsiveness, and security of VoucherCodes.co.uk, and it's sister site in Germany, Deals.com. You'll be proficient in the administration of RHEL and CentOS, which is used across our network, and know what goes into a scalable infrastructure, having spent at least 3 years working on high-traffic web sites. Experience of web operations is a must. You'll know that things occasionally break in the middle night and site uptime is critical. You're comfortable with the concept of infrastructure as code, and will have implemented such in the cloud. What's more you're an excellent communicator, cautious about change, and calm under pressure.
Being a dual-skilled role, after impressing us with your own code examples, you'll also want to get your hands dirty in our code. You'll work on projects - both solo, and with the team - building out new features for the website on our PHP-based framework. You've implemented code in high-traffic environments before, and understand caching and scaling techniques, and you write nothing but performant code. You also love to try out and experiment with new technologies to see how they can add value to our codebase.
Your key responsibilities:
- Proactive monitoring and maintenance of Linux Infrastructure Performance and Security.
- Monitoring and debugging issues with application performance through tools such as New Relic.
- Building out highly-scalable infrastructure to cope with traffic and feature growth.
- Implementing security and backup policies in-line with WhaleShark Media, Inc best-practice.
- Work collaboratively with everyone in the business, but particularly with other engineers.
- Web Server and MySQL configuration and management.
- Developing new features against our core PHP framework.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required skills & techniques:
- 5+ Years experience in managing Linux systems
- 4+ Years PHP Experience
- RHEL and CentOS
- Nginx, Varnish, and Apache
- MySQL / MariaDB Administration and Optimisation
- Shell Scripting
- Server Automation Technologies (Puppet / Chef)
- KVM Virtualisation
- Proficient in TCP/IP Networking
- Firewall Configuration and Maintenance
- Source Control Systems
Desired skills:
- AWS
- OpenCloud
- MemCached
- RabbitMQ
We welcome applications from any individual regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age. All applications will be considered on merit.
