Want to join JAFA?
Here’s our current job openings.
LONDON - Community & Social Manager - Intern
Day to Day
You’ll be assisting our team in their weekly tasks to ensure our app and other social communities are all in fine form! One day you might find yourself working on copy for our advertising campaigns, the next, you may be replying to our app reviews, tweets, comments and in-app user queries. Notifying our users is a key part of providing value to them, from time to time you’ll be scheduling/pushing notifications out with content relevant for each team or user group.
You
An avid football news reader who has knowledge of ALL Premier League clubs. You’re a fan of one club but are able to put that aside in the creation of unbiased content. Historical football knowledge is a nice to have, as well as an interest in other leagues like the Championship, EFL 1/2 and Europe’s other top 4 leagues.
So, if you like talking football and sharing your ideas of how to drive more fans to have their say then say no more…
Benefits
Beyond the beer fridge under our desk and in-office FIFA 20 competitions, we’re offering you a chance to work in football media. Some people only dream of this, but with us you can actually come in, talk and breathe football… all day long!
This is a volunteer internship, giving you an opportunity to get into the competitive sports media world.
Many of our past interns have secured jobs either externally or internally. Some companies include Manchester United, Sky Sports, Football Daily and other great brands in the industry.
Other Benefits:
Flexible working hours
Work from home opportunities
Free or subsidised travel
If you think this is you - hit us up
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Internship, Volunteer
LONDON/BRISTOL - Python & Django Developer
We are willing to consider candidates all the way from fresh out of university to people with 5+ years experience
We are looking for someone with Python and Django experience to work in an award-winning app business. This role is very flexible in terms of learning and growth as well as technical approach and architecture, but your focus will be on the backend that supports the JAFA App.
If you are interested in applying, please send a really quick cover letter along with your CV touching on the following:
1) What do you like (or dislike!) about Python / Django
2) What other nice-to-have technical knowledge do you have
3) Best and worst thing about London/Bristol
Background on JAFA:
JAFA is a 2-year-old tech-start-up, with a customer facing app (JAFA) and business facing service arm (Fan Insight Professionals).
The JAFA app is primarily football focussed - bringing the latest news and conversation to our users. We have plans to expand into other sports and regions, but right now we are focused on Football and the UK.
Originally JAFA started in Milton Keynes and now has an office in London with a tech team in Ukraine.
We are now starting to build a tech team in London/Bristol to further the development of the JAFA app - both frontend and backend.
Skills - must have:
a) Python experience
b) Django / Django Rest framework experience
c) SQL experience (we use Postgres, but other relational databases are fine too!)
Skills – Nice to have:
a) AWS experience – we use EC2, ElastiCache, RDS and a few other services
b) Dev Ops experience
c) Understanding of task based technology and management of queues (Rabbit MQ etc.)
d) Web sockets and other networking basics
You will be responsible for:
1) Maintaining the existing backend infrastructure
2) Performing a version update for the existing Django instances
3) Working with the frontend team to provide relevant REST endpoints to support frontend development
4) Working with the design team and other people within JAFA to build Django admin interfaces that perform business tasks
5) Improving and modernising the infrastructure as and when time permits
What we can offer you:
1) Salary – We offer competitive salaries for the right candidates
2) Location - Bristol/London
3) Opportunity – while this is a mobile / frontend developer role there is plenty of opportunity to grow and build your career - with exposure to full software engineering lifecycle from design to deployment and everything in-between
4) Learning – You will be working with a variety of people in a diverse team – you will be exposed to how to take small scale scripts to large production workloads using technologies in both AWS and Google Compute
5) Start-up Environment – we are based in a vibrant start-up community and you will be exposed to working in a start-up as well as many social events that happen within the start-up community
6) Progression – the company will grow quickly, opening massive opportunity for advancement into a variety of technical areas (data science, data analytics, front end development, technical architecture etc. etc.)
What you don’t need to know: anything about Football!!
We look forward to hearing from you
Benefits:
Flexible working hours
Company events & social hours
Casual dress
Work from home opportunities
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive
BRISTOL/LONDON - React Native Developer
We are looking for someone with React Native experience to work in an award-winning start-up app business. This role is very flexible in terms of learning and growth as well as technical approach and architecture, but your focus will be on the frontend JAFA app.
If you are interested in applying, please send a really quick cover letter along with your CV touching on the following:
1) What do you like about React Native
2) What other nice-to-have technical knowledge do you have
3) Best and worst thing about London/Bristol
Background on JAFA:
JAFA is a 2-year-old tech-start-up, with a customer facing app (JAFA) and business facing service arm (Fan Insight Professionals).
The JAFA app is primarily football focussed - bringing the latest news and conversation to our users. We have plans to expand into other sports and regions, but right now we are focused on Football and the UK.
Originally JAFA started in Milton Keynes and now has an office in London with a tech team in Ukraine.
We are now starting to build a tech team in London/Bristol to further the development of the JAFA app - both frontend and backend.
Skills - must have:
a) React Native experience of at least 6 months, but preferably 1 year
Education / Employment Background - must have:
a) Relevant university degree or;
b) 12 months+ development work experience (any language / technology)
You will be responsible for:
1) Working with our design team to implement new features and improvements
2) Working with a variety of analytics tools to manage crashes and implement fixes
3) Ensuring that deployments to the app store and play store are managed correctly
4) You will have to write some tests (sad face) but this will be on the light side
5) Ensuring that the app works properly on both iOS and Android
6) Challenging us and being proactive – your job is to help build the JAFA App, but we want you to grow to own parts of the product and know it inside out.
7) Working with the wider development team and business to translate business requirements into estimates and then implementing those estimates
What we can offer you:
1) Salary – We offer competitive salaries for the right candidates
2) Location - Bristol/London
3) Opportunity – while this is a mobile / frontend developer role there is plenty of opportunity to grow and build your career - with exposure to full software engineering lifecycle from design to deployment and everything in-between
4) Learning – You will be working with a variety of people in a diverse team – you will be exposed to how to take small scale scripts to large production workloads using technologies in both AWS and Google Compute
5) Start-up Environment – we are based in a vibrant start-up community and you will be exposed to working in a start-up as well as many social events that happen within the start-up community
6) Progression – the company will grow quickly, opening massive opportunity for advancement into a variety of technical areas (data science, data analytics, front end development, technical architecture etc. etc.)
What you don’t need to know: anything about Football!!
We look forward to hearing from you
Benefits:
Flexible working hours
Work from home opportunities
Casual dress
Company events & social hours
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive
BRISTOL/LONDON - Junior React Native Developer
We are looking for someone with React Native experience to work in an award-winning start-up app business. This role is very flexible in terms of learning and growth as well as technical approach and architecture, but your focus will be on the frontend JAFA app.
If you are interested in applying, please send a really quick cover letter along with your CV touching on the following:
1) Favourite programming language and why
2) What other nice-to-have technical knowledge do you have
3) Best and worst thing about Bristol
Background on JAFA:
JAFA is a 2-year-old tech-start-up, with a customer facing app (JAFA) and business facing service arm (Fan Insight Professionals).
The JAFA app is primarily football focussed - bringing the latest news and conversation to our users. We have plans to expand into other sports and regions, but right now we are focused on Football and the UK.
Originally JAFA started in Milton Keynes and now has an office in London with a tech team in Ukraine.
We are now starting to build a tech team in London/Bristol to further the development of the JAFA app - both frontend and backend.
Skills - must have:
a) React Native experience or;
b) React experience with other relevant mobile development knowledge
Education / Employment Background - must have:
a) Relevant university degree or;
b) 6 months+ development work experience (any language / technology)
You will be responsible for:
1) Working with our design team to implement new features and improvements
2) Working with a variety of analytics tools to manage crashes and implement fixes
3) Ensuring that deployments to the app store and play store are managed correctly
4) You will have to write some tests (sad face) but this will be on the light side
5) Ensuring that the app works properly on both iOS and Android
6) Challenging us and being proactive – your job is to help build the JAFA App, but we want you to grow to own parts of the product and know it inside out.
What we can offer you:
1) Salary – We offer competitive salaries for the right candidates
2) Location - Bristol
3) Opportunity – while this is a mobile / frontend developer role there is plenty of opportunity to grow and build your career - with exposure to full software engineering lifecycle from design to deployment and everything in-between
4) Learning – You will be working with a variety of people in a diverse team – you will be exposed to how to take small scale scripts to large production workloads using technologies in both AWS and Google Compute
5) Start-up Environment – we are based in a vibrant start-up community and you will be exposed to working in a start-up as well as many social events that happen within the start-up community
6) Progression – the company will grow quickly, opening massive opportunity for advancement into a variety of technical areas (data science, data analytics, front end development, technical architecture etc. etc.)
What you don’t need to know:
1) This is an entry level job, we are not expecting you to be the best at everything, but we are expecting you to be willing to learn
2) You do not need to know anything about Football!!
We look forward to hearing from you
Benefits:
Flexible working hours
Work from home opportunities
Casual dress
Company events & social hours
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive