Jobs @ Fantasy Shopper
We're growing fast and we need rockstars
We are a small, yet growing team absolutely passionate about what we do. We'll be honest - we love Fantasy Shopper. For us our work isn't 9-5, it's more of a lifestyle. The entire team is deeply committed to making Fantasy Shopper a roaring success.
What it's like to work at Fantasy Shopper?
Fantasy Shopper is a new social shopping game where players discover and share the latest fashion from real-world online retailers. On Fantasy Shopper, users spend Fantasy Money to buy virtual clothing, create outfits and stock out their virtual wardrobe. Launching first in the UK with over 100,000 virtual items from 40 retailers in clothes, accessories and sports goods, the game takes the users from shopping in London to other major world destinations. Fantasy Shopper centralises, socialises and gamifies online shopping. We are evolving social gaming by making it relevant through the incorporation of real world product data enabling players to capture real world value. As we have just secured our second round of funding, we are now looking for more great developers to join our dynamic and passionate team in Exeter, UK.
Location
Exeter - UK
Role
Web Developer - Full Time
Responsibilities
Fantasy Shopper is looking for an experienced front-end developer, who will work side by side with our designers and developers to build new features for our product. You should have strong front-end skills and the desire to improve yourself as an engineer on a daily basis. You will be integral to the team and the ongoing development of our product's user interface. You will be at the forefront of the action, working directly to build the features that our users need. Our regular release schedule means that your new features will be rolled out rapidly, for consumption by an appreciative user base. You will join a high-growth start-up that loves taking Fantasy Shopper to the next level and beyond.
Essential Skills
- Passionate about front-end technologies
- Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Javascript / Ajax
- Cross-Browser knowledge
- Experience with PHP
Desirable Skills
- Experience with online API's and mobile technologies
- SEO technical analysis and evaluation
Location
Exeter - UK
Role
Software Developer - Full Time
Responsibilities
Fantasy Shopper is looking for experienced software developers, who will be part of our core product development team. We are looking for bright, proactive individuals who can design and build great applications powered by efficient algorithms and effective data structures. You will join a high-energy start-up that loves taking Fantasy Shopper to the next level and beyond.
Essential Skills
- Huge passion for software development and writing good code
- Demonstrable programming experience in several well established languages
- Good problem solving skills and algorithm design
Desirable Skills
- Python
- JQuery, Javascript / Ajax
- Data translation experience
- Cassandra (NoSQL)
- Solr / Lucene
Location
Exeter - UK
Role
Product Manager - Full Time
Responsibilities
Fantasy Shopper is looking for an experienced Product Manager, to work on the product team with a metrics driven, analytics approach to product development. You should have extensive product management experience, preferably with a background in social gaming, and be very passionate about product optimisation with a keen eye for numbers. We work within a weekly release cycle so the right candidate will need to be super reactive and very organised. You'll be joining a high growth startup and working with a team of extremely determined and ambitious individuals. This is a very challenging and rewarding role and we're looking for an absolute superstar to fill it
Essential Skills
- Highly analytical approach to product development
- Focussed on engagement, virality and retention
- Eats, sleeps and breathes product
- Great team management and organisation skills
- Confident communicator
Location
Exeter - UK
Role
Image Processing Expert - Full Time
Responsibilities
Fantasy Shopper is looking for an experienced specialist in Image Processing technologies to provide specific image processing capabilities for inclusion in our backend data processing and work with our core software development team. You will join a high-energy start-up that loves taking Fantasy Shopper to the next level and beyond
Essential Skills
- Expert skills and formal training in computer vision
- Advanced image processing techniques and algorithms
- Python
Desirable Skills
- OpenCV
What it's like to work at Fantasy Shopper?
Some words which describe us - committed, creative, friendly, relaxed atmosphere, helpful, focused, agile, fast-growing, extremely exciting. We use only the best hardware and make sure our development team has all the resources necessary to succeed
