Node and React web app prototyping for Social Finance, a ground breaking social enterprise

We are Social Finance, a ground breaking social enterprise that creates new ways of tackling complex social issues in the UK and beyond. We established Social Finance Digital Labs earlier this year to bring new digital capabilities to the public and social sectors. We are now looking for a freelance developer to help us build a prototype web application on a full-time contract over the coming 3-4 weeks (say: Monday 7th September through until c. 28th). There will be the opportunity for further projects should this one be a success. You will be working on a day to day basis with Daniel Miodovnik [1], who will act as product manager, and Jon Tippell [2], who can provide technical guidance. We have a strong understanding of the application requirements and the basic architecture and design, and have built a partial proof of concept (of which screenshots can be shared). Your objective is to strengthen this application – move us from ‘proof of concept’ to ‘prototype’ – and to build out a set of priority stories. Both Dan and Jon are happy to get into the code and help you as required. We are working on a modern web application stack, comprising: Node, React, Flux, Gulp, Browserify, Bootstrap, Python, and Couchbase. For productivity, we use Atlassian, Trello and Skype. We expect you to be either familiar with or willing to quickly learn the bulk of these technologies, and to bring your own MacBook. If you would like to learn more about Social Finance and Digital Labs, then please see the role description [3] of the Full Stack Engineer which we would like to hire for later this year. Interested? Please contact us with your availability, location and experience. Ideally we would like you to join us occasionally in person at our London offices on Great Titchfield Street, W1, but will accommodate if this is not possible. The next step would be a conversation – either in person or via. Skype – so as to understand your motivations, experience, and to write some code. Finally, we are keen to move fast, and priority will go to speedy responses. [1] [login to view URL] [2] [login to view URL] [3] [login to view URL]