Design Jobs Board

• Permanent position (4 or 5 day week)
• £40,000 – £50,000 (pro rata, dependent on experience)
• London based studio, flexible hybrid remote (min 1 day pw in the studio)
• Apply by 4th January 2025, midnight (GMT)

Join the Applied Works team to deliver exciting and pioneering digital design projects for our global clients, and enrich our growing team. We’re based at Somerset House in central London.

Applied Works is the design partner to the world’s data pioneers. We’re a small team working on big projects that help organisations and academic institutions to create impactful and interactive experiences. We strive to affect positive change in our work, seeking projects that help our understanding of data and the world around us.

We are seeking to hire a creative and adaptable developer to play a key part in creating meaningful digital products for our clients with the guidance of our senior team members. You will have strong web development skills, be keen to tackle new problems and technologies, and care about the details of design and user experience. As a team, we strive to deliver impactful, high-quality products and support each other by sharing our experiences and knowledge.

What you’ll do

• Help the team review, comprehend and organise data of many different shapes and sizes
• Build prototypes to explore data and demonstrate user interfaces
• Help review and feedback on wireframes and designs
• Take designs and build screens, data visualisations and user interface components to realise them
• Help the team balance quality and effort to meet budgets and timelines
• Participate in code reviews, test releases and maintain existing code
• Present your work to the team and project stakeholders
• Keep up to date with the web ecosystem, develop your skills and share what you learn with the team

Core skills we’re looking for

• At least two years of professional experience.
• An appreciation for design and user experience.
• Significant experience building component-based web applications (Typescript, React and Next.js experience preferred).
• Significant experience building responsive layouts and user interfaces.
• Some experience integrating with APIs and external services.
• Some experience with CMSs and server-side frameworks (Craft CMS experience a plus).
• Some experience collaborating with designers.
• Some experience in a client (or stakeholder) facing role.

Benefits of working with us

Applied Works is nurturing a working environment in which personal interests and ideas can flourish. We aim to bring together talented people who enjoy new challenges and share a genuine curiosity for the projects we work on.

We’re a friendly and supportive team, and we’ve tried to make our recruitment process reflect this. We only ask for CVs (not covering letters), we practise blind recruitment to reduce any risk of unconscious bias and we send candidates interview questions in advance

• 25 days of annual leave (pro rata)
• Flexibility in working hours and week
• Remote/on-site flexible split
• Opportunities to work with a diverse range of ambitious clients
• We’re an ethical organisation, working on challenging, impactful projects making a positive difference
• Being part of the vibrant Makerversity community
• Access to facilities and events in our shared studio space, including wood, textile, engineering and digital workshops, masterclasses, talks and courses
• A supportive and friendly environment from our passionate team
• Regular team offsites and social

What we care about

• We’re an ethical organisation, and carry out a robust ethical checklist before working with any new client.
• We always look deeper, and ask the right questions to ensure we’re building the right solution.
• We put people first, so we put strong emphasis on designing and developing everything with real users in mind.
• We care about each other, we take time to give one another support and socialise together.
• We go to talks, events and exhibitions throughout the year. We’re always learning from others and challenging ourselves to do better.

How to apply, key dates and fair recruitment process

Please send your CV as a PDF and links to two online projects to which you contributed, with a short description of your contribution to each. We’ll ask you to show and discuss the code for these projects during the interview stage.

Everything you submit should be in an anonymous format, to ensure we avoid unconscious bias during our selection process: Please take out any reference to your name in your CV, including any contact details, photos or portfolio web address.

Then send your CV, projects and descriptions to careers@appliedworks.co.uk by Saturday 4th January. We don’t need a covering letter, so please ensure your CV is up to date and contains information about you that is relevant to our selection criteria (stated above). Please make sure your contact details, including your full name, email address and phone number are included in your email.

We will then carry out blind recruitment, where we will score all CVs with personal details removed to lessen the risk of unconscious bias, and give under-represented groups confidence that their application will be fairly considered. We will also use the same standardised scoring criteria for all applicants.

Interviews (online or in person) will take place from Thursday 16th January 2025. The selected applicants will be sent interview questions in advance. A shortlist of interviewees will then be asked to take part in a coding exercise at a later date.

A final decision is due to be made by Friday 31st January 2025 when all participants will be notified – whether successful or not.

If you have any questions about this role, email us on careers@appliedworks.co.uk