Careers

As a leading specialist in Linux and Free Software, we are looking to expand our experienced and committed team for the design and implementation of innovative solutions for our customers.

At credativ we invest in our employees – their growth and development is important to us and, by working for a dynamic company which is constantly evolving, our developers gain exposure to a diverse range of opportunities which may not be available so readily in larger, more traditional organizations. 

Current Opportunities

credativ is looking for senior and junior software developers to help progress our customer projects using Python and Ruby, including:

• back and front end web development for customers to use for training and recording of information security processes
• creating and advancing modules for business enterprise systems

Work will involve supporting existing systems, improving free software packages and deploying new technologies for customers.

What do we do?

We develop and support business software solutions using free software; our key business areas are consulting, development, support and training. credativ supports a diverse range of clients and has a long history of contributing to free software projects. Our technical team is actively involved with Debian, PostgreSQL and OpenERP, among others. Over the last decade, credativ has expanded from Germany to the UK, US and Canada, and worked to maintain excellent relationships with other free software organisations, companies and upstream projects. This means we have extensive links with the wider free software community and a vast pool of resources we can tap in to for the benefit of our customers.

Our UK office is in a town centre location in Rugby, Warwickshire.

What do we use?

Our platforms run on Linux and are all built using open source technologies. We use Python, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Django, Apache, C++, Git, and whatever is the best tool for the job. We use lightweight agile development processes, with a strong emphasis on test driven development; we like to get involved in user groups and open source community initiatives.

Who are we looking for?

We want to find competent open source developers and free software engineers to join our development team permanently; for further details see the job descriptions below. We have a small development team in the UK, so you need to learn quickly and be the kind of person who gets things done and cares about your coding and craftmanship.

How to get in touch

Please send your CV, a covering letter, and links to your blog, github or any open source project contributions to careers@credativ.co.uk

Skills and Requirements

Solid development skills, a hunger for learning new things and enthusiasm are the most important things. We are using some interesting technologies to solve some interesting problems, so a good approach to problem-solving is a must. 

Our platforms use a few core technologies, the more you are familiar with the better. 

Here is a sublist; for detailed job descriptions please see the Open Source Developer and Assistant Free Software Engineer job pages.

• Linux
• PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Python, other object oriented programming languages
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Open Object, OpenERP
• HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery
• GNU/Linux system administration
• Networking protocols, TCP/IP, encryption, computer privacy and security