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Ten years ago (it seems like only yesterday) we were simply a small group of experienced yet rather frustrated creative recruiters about to launch a brand new business. RedSofa. We were determined to show the world we could do a better job than the competition: and have fun at the same time.
Our philosophy was very simple only hire the very best and watch them and the business flourish. By 2014 we were proud to be acclaimed Europe's fastest growing and most respected Creative Recruitment Agency. A year later we opened our Berlin office.
Of course there are other elements to our success, passion, creativity and building long-term personal relationships, but working with the very best people will always be at the core of our being.
We now cover almost every area in our sector, ranging from junior art workers to global CEOs. Our expertise in every area is widely regarded as being unequalled. IMPRINT
Design Director (13696)
London
Permanent
£70,000 - £75,000
Location: London
Salary: £70k-£75k
This role spans across branding, campaign branding, advertising and digital/ social. We are looking for someone who will bring the highest level of technical skills, fresh ideas and ownable styles to the table. This means trying new things, learning new skills and breaking norms. A Design Director must have a good ability to understand client business needs, audience, strengths and weaknesses, and apply this information to your ideas and executions. This means being able to drive projects, including leading a brief through to the vision and the delivery deck, whether it’s a pitch, presentation or brand guidelines toolkit. This means being confident in meeting clients and presenting your work. You’ll be getting your hands dirty when it comes to doing the work, but also inspiring your team members to produce equally great work.
Technical Lead – Glasgow (13669)
London, Glasgow
fixed contract
£70,000 - £75,000
I am looking for a Technical Lead for a well-established agency. In the past five years, they’ve scaled to more than double their original size when they started up in Scotland. They now have over 80 people across the UK. They work with brilliant clients — from Cancer Research UK and Tesco to Hackney City Council and the Scottish Government.
About the role
As a Tech Lead, you will lead the new and growing team of developers within our Digital team, and set the standard for our coding approach. You’ll report to their Head of Digital to provide oversight of technical delivery, and provide coaching for developers.
You will:
Line-manage the team of developers. Provide mentoring and support to build individual and team capability.
Develop, test, deploy and improve digital products in a continuous delivery environment
Develop their technology practices including test-driven development, code review, pair-programming, QA, approaches, and professional development and training.
You will help create a supportive team and a culture of partnership, consistency, operational excellence, and delivery. You will foster good engineering practices, rhythms, and rituals, team dynamics, and delivery within the Head of Digital’s team. And you will help the team make brilliant connections with the other designers and researchers across
the rest of the agency.
Your skills and experience
They want to hear from a range of people who can demonstrate some, or all, of the following skills and experience:
Team and practice:
Technical skills
Fullstack Developer – Glasgow (13671)
London, Glasgow
Permanent
£30,000 - £35,000
I am seeking a Fullstack Developer to join my clients Glasgow studio (open to other working arrangements).
About the role
As a Developer, you will work alongside their other disciplines to assist in the day-to-day running of the development work within their digital team.
You will work with the team to develop digital products and services, making the best use of budget to provide value for our clients and to our internal projects.
Their Developers will sit within the Digital team and will collaborate across their user-centered disciplines, including service design, user research, interaction design, content design and accessibility.
Your skills and experience
They’re keen to hear from a range of developers who can demonstrate some, or all, of the following skills and experience:
Team and practice:
Technical skills
Senior Developer – Glasgow (13670)
Glasgow, London
Permanent
£60,000 - £65,000
I am seeking a Senior Developer to join my clients’ team in their Glasgow studio (open to other working arrangements).
About the role
As a Senior Developer, you will work alongside our other disciplines to assist in the day-to-day running of the development work within their digital team and provide oversight over technical delivery.
You will work with the team to develop digital products and services, making the best use of budget to provide value for our clients and their internal projects.
You will help create a strong team ethic and foster a culture of partnership, consistent delivery, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. You will foster strong engineering practices, team dynamics, and delivery.
Their developers will sit within the Digital team and will collaborate across their user-centered disciplines, including service design, user research, interaction design, content design, and accessibility.
Your skills and experience
They’re keen to hear from a range of developers who can demonstrate some, or all, of the following skills and experience:
Team and practice:
Technical skills
DevOps Enginer (13664)
London
Permanent
£80,000 - £85,000
My client is looking for a Mid/Senior DevOps / Systems Infrastructure Engineer (currently remote) to join their team to improve and grow cloud infrastructure. This position will also allow you to innovate their engineering systems to the best practices. It’s a great opportunity to employ and practice edge DevOps technologies in a fast-paced environment for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities and cool staff you will be working with:
Requirements
Desirable Skills:
No sponsorship for this role.
You must be able to live and work in the UK
Fullstack Developer (13663)
London
Permanent
£55,000 - £65,000
My client is looking for a Fullstack developer (currently remote). They use an open API, powering applications behind the scenes, to seamlessly connect and securely access financial information. We enable companies to access financial information to enrich the customer experience in Banking, Lending, Payments, Accounting and Money Management.
They are looking for Java Full Stack developers who have also knowledge and passion for frontend and UX development.
For this position, they are looking for someone with a strong background in OO design with Java and at least one other programming language, experience working with web services, Spring Boot, and core frontend CSS, HTML, JavaScript.
They use different technologies for different frontend applications, some using the Vaadin framework for full Java stack, others with Vue and Node, and also React or Flutter for native apps.
Equally important to these specific skills is the ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Desirable
No sponsorship for this role
You must be able to live and work in the UK
Senior Back-End Developer (13661)
London
Permanent
£55,000 - £65,000
My client is looking for a Senior Backend Developer (currently remote). They use an open API, powering applications behind the scenes, to seamlessly connect and securely access financial information. We enable companies to access financial information to enrich the customer experience in Banking, Lending, Payments, Accounting, and Money Management.
They are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join the biggest financial technology revolution. You will work with team leaders and our CTO to determine software requirements, build APIs, SDKs, and other tools for developers.
They are looking for folks with solid analytical, design, and problem diagnosis skills, expertise with systems programming, high-performance applications, distributed systems, or service design. Equally important to add, is the ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.
They need their engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to tackle new problems across the full-stack as they continue to push technology forward. With your technical expertise, you will manage individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Their innovative systems include highly efficient and large scale platforms built on Java/Spring Boot, running on Docker containers and deployed in Kubernetes clusters in Google Cloud Platform.
Requirements
Ideally, you will have experience working with web services, Restful APIs, and Spring Boot.
Linux system development experience is a plus.
No sponsorship for this role.
You need to be able to live and work in the UK.
Senior Front End Developer (13660)
London
Permanent
£55,000 - £70,000
My client is looking for a Senior Frontend Developer (currently remote). They use an open API, powering applications behind the scenes, to seamlessly connect and securely access financial information. We enable companies to access financial information to enrich the customer experience in Banking, Lending, Payments, Accounting, and Money Management.
They are looking for a Frontend Developer who can help them migrate from their existing frontend framework Vaadin. You will be involved in choosing a new framework for our frontend.
This is a great opportunity to join their team.
You will work closely with their core development and software design teams to update the external and internal web tools to make them more efficient. You will also be responsible for creating innovative solutions to UI design issues to help make the experience more visually appealing and enhance usability.
Equally important to the specific development skills is the ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.
Responsibilities include:
Requirements
Desirable:
Qualifications
No sponsorship for this role
You must be able to live and work in the UK.
Senior Designer with Motion (Beauty/Fashion) (13645)
London
Permanent
£40,000 - £50,000
We are looking for an ambitious Senior Designer with strong motion design skills to join the Design & Production team in London focussing on a market leader in the hair and beauty industry.
My client are a tight knit team of illustrators & animators, photographers & videographers, coders & brand builders who create thumb-smashing content for some of the biggest brands in the world.
You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Insights, to Community, to Strategy to deliver transformational social-first work. To be a part of the Design & Production team, you must be a pixel loving, idea generating, creative collaborator who likes to tell stories that move.
Role
In a nutshell you’ll be working within the design team on a market leader in the hair and beauty industry. You will be tasked owning and leading the creative output on this account, producing campaigns, overseeing retainer content and developing the team with your impressive luxury / beauty design knowledge.
Conceptualise, scope in and implement complex integrated campaigns
Lead innovative ideations and foster confidence within the design team
Delivering campaign and brand development, art directing projects and overseeing retainer workflows.
Hands-on creation of content through motion graphics and photography
Ownership and quality oversight of content outputted by junior members of the team
Stay up-to-date with social platforms and industry trends
Leading team members, collaborating with client service and community teams
Confidently present work and build client relationships
Outside of this account you will also help drive creativity, process and organisation across the agency and help build the design team to fit your needs.
Work with community managers, strategists and account teams to create future thinking, bold and social-first ideas.
Managing and mentoring designers
Contribute and shape business development pitches
Lead presentations and encourage other team members to present
You’ll slot into the creative family with your own brand of vim, spark and joy
Requirements
Experienced creative with graphic design education
4+ year’s experience including the beauty and/or fashion sector
Experienced in leading teams and overseeing multiple, diverse projects simultaneously
Branding /strategic design
Strong Motion Design/After Effects know how essential
Agency background with strong social knowledge
Experience attention to detail – lead on quality control
Management experience
Passion
Design thinking
Visual & Motion Designer (13633)
London
Permanent
£35,000 - £35,000
-Midweight visual and motion designer
Midweight Designers are one of the most reliable designers in the team. You should have a great understanding of the agency’s system, an ability to take on all design tasks, assist or even lead projects independently. Midweights should be organised and show initiative. You should support senior team members but also be able to step up and take over any of their projects if it’s required of them. You will have a hand in most of the projects we work on, whether it’s character creation, content animations or simply bringing our work to life.
Midweights should have sound technical skills, a clear understanding of design trends and an ability to apply different styles across brands. You should have a good understanding of visual design and typography and be able to contribute to concept sessions as well as sell in their ideas clearly.
Skills
2D Animation skills – or an interest to learn animation
Great eye for layout design
Ability to have a versatile unique style
Strong understanding of design trends
good communication skills not afraid to roll up your sleeves
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Trump on twitter, 80's fashion trends, Lemmings, not everything should be followed. Red Sofa on social media on the other hand... Yeah, follow us, we're a lovely bunch!
We are well and truly open for business and you are more than free to pop in anytime. (except the weekends!) Also feel free to check out our Berlin office.
Address
68 Redchurch Street
London, E2 7DP
Email
info@redsofalondon.com
Fax
+44 (0)20 3006 8882
Phone
+44 (0)20 7729 5129
Steve Buss 19th August 2020
“Seinfeld” is a ‘90s sitcom that became a huge hit in the States.
Confusingly Jerry Seinfeld himself is a pretty lame stand-up, but just ignore that.
Anyways, it’s back on Amazon Prime so here’s a shortlist of the funniest episodes and some of the most famous comedy episodes of any US TV.
Written by Larry David who moved on to write and star in “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, Seinfeld is pretty much “Curb Your Enthusiasm: Lighter, Funnier, Better”.
Actually, Seinfeld might as well be called “The Elaine, George and Kramer Show” as Jerry Seinfeld is the weakest link:
Elaine – Jerry’s ex-. Played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus from VEEP. No 1 funny person on the show.
George and his Italian American parents – dad Frank played by Ben Stiller’s dad, Jerry Stiller.
Kramer – the kooky neighbour.
The following episodes are the classics. I watched these during lockdown and they’re still fresh. Most episodes throughout series 4-7 are decent but really you only need to watch these 12 episodes and then move on.
The 12 funniest episodes are:
Perhaps finish up with “Highlights of a Hundred” (season 6’s clip highlights episode).
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls047644297/
Written by Richard Maddox