
Graduate Developer
Are you the curious one? That child that didn’t just ask why, but also how? The kid with the overwhelming desire to break things up to see how they worked? You’re in great company. And we’re looking to grow our development team. You already program for your own interests, and perhaps you did as a child. We’d love to see what you’ve built.
We work hard on building the company at which we all want to work and crucially, we love working together.
We care deeply about maintaining a team of smart people who get things done. Full Fat Things people never stop learning, we love to deliver and are passionate about coding.
The opportunity
You’ll work on high profile products and services for high profile companies and your output will be used by millions of people.
You’ll have real responsibility and a genuine chance to make an impact. You’ll also work with some outrageously brilliant developers who are amongst the best in their field and contribute majorly to open source communities.
Our collaborative team will help you thrive — at Full Fat Things pragmatic thinking wins!
We are world leaders in building with Drupal. We build in many others ways too, including Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React/React Native, VueJS & Javascript. We also encourage developers to have DevOps skills, so our team knows how to run the software they write.
What you'll do
We’re a customer focused team and the exact nature of your work will change and adapt based on the projects we deliver. That means you’re always learning on the job. Regardless of the project, you’ll be involved in these activities:
- Develop in open source, such as Drupal, Ruby on Rails and potentially other languages and frameworks that the collective teams pick.
- Developing websites and applications in chosen languages and frameworks.
- Write and design software in a way that can be open sourced in part.
- Use of source control (Git/Github) and actively participate in constant peer reviews. They will be assessing yours. You will assess each other's work.
- Work in an iterative Agile setting in all phases of the software development cycle from collating requirements through to design, development, testing and releases.
- Solve hard technical problems.
- Write unit and integration tests.
- Work with Docker, temporary pull request environments, Devops environments and be involved in the full lifecycle of software from initial idea to long term operation.
- Collaborate with colleagues and clients alike - contributing ideas, feedback and leading initiatives, where appropriate.
- Be comfortable with customers, both digital and face to face real humans!
Does this sound like you?
- You have - or are about to complete - a relevant degree such as Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- You have a genuine enthusiasm for software development.
- You might have been involved in open source in some way, or perhaps developed some software or a game in your spare time. Share your work with us when you apply.
- You have some paid employment experience, which doesn’t have to be directly relevant.
- You are resourceful and tenacious, willing to train on the job, with a never-stop-learning attitude.
- Respect, friendliness, integrity, service and tact are some of your character strengths.
Benefits
- No commute, more flexibility and a better work-life balance.
- Premium equipment. We make sure you have everything you need to do your job well. No outdated tech or wonky desks for our people!
- Training and certification in open source software.
- Career development, working amongst some of the best open source brains in the world.
- Active encouragement to make a name for yourself in the open source community.
- Financial stuff - Salary in line with your skills and experience plus a 10% employer contribution to your pension.
- An annual bonus scheme.
- Fun stuff - regularly we get together for co-working days, which turn into social events.
- Important stuff - private health care.
About Full Fat Things
We enable humans through brilliant digital solutions built from open source technology.
Based in the UK and over 12 years old, we're passionate about making great software products for amazing brands. We count Publishers, TV companies, global financial services companies and charities among our clients.
We’ve always been a distributed business. We choose where we work. We meet in person regularly in different cities for co-working days and socials.

We actively support the WISE Campaign and believe passionately in the need to encourage women and girls into STEM jobs.
Application process
Email and tell us why you’re right for the role, include links to your repos or contributions plus some info about your relevant history (your LinkedIn profile, CV or a summary will do the trick) to: developersdevelopersdevelopers@fullfatthings.com
If you’re shortlisted, we’ll invite you to take our 50 minute online assessment. It’s a challenge but we know you like those.
If our journey progresses, we’ll have telephone and zoom interviews. You’ll meet some of the team and get to know how we work. We’ll ask you about your skills, aspirations and approach to life.