Camp Wildfire
Only The
Curious

Full Stack Developer (Front-end Focus)

Join us as Front-end Focused Full Stack Developer and see your work really come to life as you build software for a leading creative events business driving innovation in its field.

You will be instrumental in bringing joy to thousands of people as the systems you create facilitate life changing real world experiences.

You will participate in all areas of product design and engineering, designing intuitive and beautiful user experiences with our designer, writing high-quality code and collaborating with our product manager and technical lead to ensure we provide an exceptional experience for our customers.

We are committed to your growth too. Our supportive team champions continuous learning and we will invest in your skills so you can experiment, refine, and master your craft.

Your user insights and technical opinions will be highly valued and will influence key business decisions. This role provides the perfect blend of user experience challenges and opportunities to make a meaningful impact.

About Wildkind

Wildkind is primarily an events business with two market leading outdoor events; Camp Wildfire and Camp Kindling. Founded in 2015 and growing rapidly, we aim to take our unique events worldwide to inspire, challenge and entertain over 1 million customers.

Our mission

To spark curiosity, encourage endeavour and create joy.

Our culture 

We are ambitious and hard working. We have a supportive, growth focussed working culture and will invest in education and experimentation to push the boundaries of your abilities. We champion diverse skill sets, perspectives and discussion; everyone is encouraged to be themselves and input into the organisation and work at all levels. We care deeply about our work having a positive impact on our customers, colleagues, communities and the environment. We promote creativity and adventure in everything we do. You can read more about our culture and values here.

Key information

Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 per year depending on experience
Social: Monthly adventures/parties with your team
Health: Private Health Care Plan
Education: £1000+ per year for your learning and development
Tools: Premium hardware and software for you to do your best work
Annual Leave: 30 days (including public holidays)
Location: Hybrid (Min 2 days per week in London Office)
Hours: 40hrs per week (Normally 10:00-18:00 GMT/BST but some flexibility possible)
Start Date: Mar - Apr 2025

Application Deadline: Thur 13th Feb 10am
(Note: Early applicants may be considered before this date)

Your mission

Take ownership of the front-end and develop user experiences and interfaces for React and React Native applications. Write high-quality code for tech products that improve customer experience, reduce customer service issues and reduce costs. Be detail-conscious yet deadline-oriented, able to support technical decision-making to keep progress on track.

Your objectives

In this role you’ll be building publicly accessible, cloud based software solutions that our customers and team can interact with using web and mobile apps.

  1. Enhance and improve our Enrolment system for use during this Summers events
  2. Build and test a new Ticketing and Ecommerce system for event tickets, upsells, cross sells and add ons
  3. Enhance and improve our iOS app used during live events
  4. Build out a design system to allow for rapid prototyping, developing and testing of features
  5. Support our technical strategy and vision moving into 2025/2026 and beyond

Your responsibilities

As a company we focus on objectives and results, with individuals involved in identifying the best ways to achieve them. We have included this list of responsibilities to give you an idea of the starting point for this position; the exact responsibilities will develop under team leadership.

  • Design & Prototype: work with our designer to create and implement intuitive user experiences and interfaces that help users understand and engage with complex event programmes.
  • Front-end Development: confident development and engineering of beautiful, functional and performant web and mobile apps.
  • Back-end development: collaborating with technical lead to improve back end integrations and solve technical problems related to our cloud stack.
  • Learning & Iterating: measuring and studying user behaviour and performance metrics and using insights to continuously improve user experiences.
  • Coding & Testing: Write high-quality, performant, well organised, maintainable code with a focus on QA and testing, as well as code review of others work. Share and adapt reusable patterns and components when possible.
  • Connectivity and Offline: Help build systems designed to accommodate for poor network connectivity (our live events take place in a green-field site with inconsistent wifi and 4G)
  • Product Quality: Contribute to ensuring the overall quality, accessibility, stability, and security of digital systems and products, in alignment with both functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Communication & Collaboration: Maintain transparent communication about project and task statuses, milestones, and potential risks, collaborating effectively with other developers and departments.

Your experience

  • Digital Development: Experience in developing websites, web applications and ideally mobile apps, with a focus on user-centric design.
  • Depth of Knowledge: 2+ years of full stack or front end development experience.
  • Technical Contributions: Experience in contributing to system design and assisting in technical decisions on medium-to-large scale projects or complex features.
  • Front End Skills: Proficient with Typescript, ReactJS and React Native.
  • Back End Skills: Some experience with a variety of APIs and SQL / NoSQL databases. Working knowledge of AWS and other cloud providers.
  • UX/UI Skills: Experience collaborating with designers to create and improve designs. Some experience with, or interest in, creating simple mock ups in figma. Confident working from ideas or wireframes when designer time is limited.  
  • Time Management: Ability to work within project timelines, proactively communicate any delays and contribute to task re-prioritisation to keep things on track
  • Data and Performance: Working understanding of data capture and performance tracking to improve UX/UI experiences.

Application process

Your cover letter should do the following:

  • Describe workplace cultures that you know bring out the best in you
  • Highlight previous experience from your CV that is most relevant to the role
  • Emphasise any specialist skills, qualifications or training you have that are relevant to the role
  • Mention which of the four Patrols you might join if you were attending one of our events

We are looking for team members that are interested in a long term career with Wildkind, and want to learn and grow with us. If you think you could achieve the objectives set out in this role and would enjoy the work we do we encourage you to apply regardless of your background. We treat all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, religion, age or disability status. We will request references from your past employers to support anything you tell us in this application or any interviews before offering you a position. We will require evidence of your right to work in the UK before conducting interviews.

We only accept applications via the form on this page, please do not send applications by post or email as they will not be considered.

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