Want to work with us?

At Can Studios you’ll work, learn and play with a talented and experienced team trying to make education better through technology.

From helping children to read, to preparing managers for the realities of refugee camps, the products we build change lives – not only of the users, but those around them too. We’re proud of the relationships we have built with clients including many household names such Reuters, learndirect, Harper Collins, Cambridge University Press, The Environment Agency, and the United Nations.

Current roles

Sys Admin / Dev Ops

Software QA Tester

What makes Can Studios such a great place to work?

Interesting and varied work
24 days holiday plus public holidays (and up to 5 more with length of service)
Training budget and time to spend as you choose
Company pension contributions
Friendly, diverse team that has regular socials
Decent coffee and tea – none of that instant nonsense
Designer office at Park Hill – just voted 6th coolest place to be in Britain and part of a new creative business and arts hub
Only 2 minutes walk from the train station, tram stop. On site car parking.
Shower, lockers and secure bike parking

Current roles

Sys Admin / Dev Ops

Salary: Dependent on qualifications and experience
Full time – office based

We’re looking for a new member of our dev ops / sys admin team to help support the applications we run in production, in addition to our development environments.

Across our portfolio we predominantly use popular frameworks for PHP and MySQL on the back-end, with a few projects based on Node.js. All our systems are hosted on an AWS infrastructure – some using just single instances, others using complex auto-scaling architectures composing of many AWS components.

You will be involved in projects from concept, through development and into production. You’ll need to consider deployment, scalability and security at all times and help the team implement best practice on a daily basis. The ideal candidate will have sufficient skills to get stuck into projects from day one, and a desire to learn and get involved in new innovations as part of their career development.

While the role is mostly normal office hours, there will be occasional out-of-hours deployments that you would be expected to take a part in.

The following skills and abilities are essential:

Setup and administration of LAMP based stacks
Experience with AWS (or other) cloud architecture
PHP
SQL

Any of the following will help set you apart from the crowd:

Docker
CI/CD pipelines
PHP frameworks: Zend / Symfony / Laravel
Mongo / NoSQL
Node.js
Mobile app development
Python
Git

Software QA Tester

Salary: £25,000 – £35,000 / year

Full time, office based

We are looking for an experienced tester to join our team. The successful applicant will:

thoroughly test the company’s complex software suite and work actively with the Development team to ensure only the very best software reaches production
test newly developed software, existing software upgrades and deployments, to ensure quality is maintained
perform functional and system testing, predominantly using Black Box testing techniques
perform non-functional testing using in-house and 3rd party tools
automate the testing process where practical, using tools such as Selenium
work with clients and developers to help capture and transform requirements into test specifications, and diagnose defects
use risk-based analysis to identify vulnerable areas of the software
use creativity and ingenuity to uncover software faults
raise, prioritise and track defect reports through to conclusion.

The successful applicant will have the following experience and skills:

at least two year’s software testing experience
analytical and diagnostic skills
ability to prioritise work, work under pressure and deliver to tight timescales
good communication skills.

The following skills would be advantageous:

programming in php, java or javascript
knowledge of databases and SQL.

Next Steps:

Please send your CV, and if possible a portfolio of work to jobs@canstudios.com

No agencies please – really. We like to keep things personal.