Django Developer

London, United Kingdom

Potato has an ongoing need for talented full-time freelance developers, to work on interesting web projects.

You'll be working at our office in London, United Kingdom, developing web tools and apps for huge audiences. Our clients include Google, YouTube, News International, PayPal and other agencies such as BBH and Mother.

This role will see you working as part of a friendly, expert team. The workload will sometimes be hectic, but the atmosphere is cheerful and proactive. We want to put you in a position to write the best code that you can.

You'll need to know Python and Django. You might have App Engine or noSQL experience. Our apps are often complex, scale to epic proportions, and connect to many APIs - any relevant experience would be a big plus.

We make progressively enhanced, standards-based web apps, so you'll need to be at home with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery. You might know about Backbone.js. Extra points for user-centred thinkers.

Required experience

Django & Python
Version control (particularly git)
Understanding of HTML, CSS & JavaScript

Big pluses for experience with

Standards-driven unobtrusive JavaScript & semantically marked up HTML
Google App Engine
Development & consumption of HTTP APIs
Localising web apps
jQuery or other JavaScript libraries
Open source projects
Google Apps & APIs

Also useful

HTML5
Linux administration
Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3 etc)

Pay & benefits

Competitive daily rate
Free lunch, drinks and snacks
A fun and supportive, developer-focussed working environment

Apply with

A cover letter
Your CV, including references
Details of your availability
Any sample URLs that show off your code and prove you'll be able to hit the ground running