OPEN POSITION - Web Developper

What We Do 

Mavrx is a next-generation mapping and remote sensing company revolutionising the wine industry. We produce handheld and drone-mounted sensor payloads and an online data processing and visualisation platform.

Mavrx will be field-trialling early prototypes in the winelands of South Africa from January to March 2014, and will pay full expenses and salary for the selected candidates.

(note: for more information about Mavrx, refer to our earlier post: http://pmgeyr.blogspot.pt/2013/09/mavrx-uav-and-3d-imaging.html)

Job Description
We are looking for a versatile web developer to join our small team to produce the back-end software that will process and store the data that we collect, and some preliminary front-end work to display that data.
You will be responsible for:

1. Developing back-end and some aspects of the front-end of our web application
2. Taking part in all aspects of development of the web-based software
3. Administrate the servers

You will take a lead role on software development, both back-end and front-end. You will work with the engineers producing the hardware that will provide the data that the software will consume, and you will liaise with external contractors who may take on the front-end and/or user interface design elements.

A successful candidate will join us on our two-month trip to South Africa, so you must be willing and capable to travel, and be ready to get up to speed really fast.

Requirements

We are looking for someone who has experience with both back-end web application development, and front-end web development to join our team. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and can work well in a startup environment, and has done web-app projects outside the scope of education or employment (the more the better).

The candidate must have knowledge of/experience with:

1. PHP and/or Python
2. MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
3. HTML and CSS
4. Javascript
5. Basic system administration of Linux servers
6. Best practices for security and standards compliance

Nice-to-haves:

1. Design skills
2. PostGIS or MySQL Spatial extensions
3. OpenLayers or Google Maps API
4. AJAX techniques
5. AWS or other cloud service providers
6. Version control (Git and Github preferred)

How to Apply

Please send the following to the email «jobs» at mavrx.cov with your CV/resume and examples of relevant previous projects, preferably those that you have done outside the scope of your education or employment (i.e. personal projects that you did for fun and/or profit).

Alternatively, please contact Philippe Geyr to know how to apply to this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity now available in London