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The studio We're always interested in hearing from talented designers and developers. Be warned: you won't enjoy working for us unless you have a genuine enthusiasm for all things mobile.

In return we offer a competitive salary, excellent working environment in the heart of Brighton's North Laine, and the chance to work on cutting edge, mass-market projects for top-tier clients: our customers include Nokia, 3, Orange, the BBC, EMI Music and many more.

We also do nice things like contribute to open source software, recycle, and do pro bono work on community projects.

Everyone here contributes where they can, getting involved with all aspects of our business: not just development, but also pitch work, dreaming up ideas to delight our clients, and so on. It's hard work, but fun.

We're currently looking to fill three specific vacancies: a technical project manager, a senior designer, and a software developer.

Technical project manager

We're after either a project manager with experience herding a team of software developers, or someone with strong organisational and communications skills looking to move from development into project management. In either case you'll need to be comfortable dealing with the in-depth technical details of complex software projects. You'll be responsible for managing and motivating teams of developers and designers, writing project plans, liaising directly with clients and tracking progress. Any experience you have managing application development for mobile would be absolutely super.

This position is to be full-time and contract initially; after a successful probation period we would look to transition into a permanent position.

Senior designer

We're looking for someone who's got a strong track record of mobile design, with an in-depth understanding of the technical constraints of mobile. Excellent skills originating and implementing visuals is essential, backed up with solid interaction design thinking. If you've gone so far as building WAP or XHTML sites, that'd be a bonus.

You'll be contributing to a multidisciplinary team working for a broad client base; over the last 6 months we've carried out projects for Nokia, the BBC, Hotxt, Discovery US, BAA and Robbie Williams. As well as hands-on design work we'll expect you to get involved with pitches and contribute to proposals, help us hone our approach and processes, and develop our design capability.

This position is full-time and permanent.

Software developers

You'll have solid Java experience and be comfortable with either developing efficient, reliable software running within restricted environments for mobile phones, or working on server-side applications using Tomcat, Hibernate and MySQL. If you can do both, we'll be especially interested in talking to you. An eye for detail and a professional, methodical approach towards software engineering will be essential.

This position is to be full-time and contract initially; after a successful probation period we would look to transition to a permanent position.

Please send CVs and a covering note to hello@futureplatforms.com

Strictly no agencies please. Honestly: if you're an agency, please don't contact us.

Overview

We like to talk. Email us on info@futureplatforms.com or telephone +44 (0)870 0055924.

If you are coming to see us, our offices are in the heart of Brighton, a short walk away from the mainline railway station.

If you are interested in working in a friendly and innovative enviroment, take a look at our careers page.

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