GoCardless is growing fast, and hiring. We’d love more designers like me who enjoy making an impact throughout the life-cycle of an idea: asking the whys and hows whilst scoping out new features; making stuff look rad in Sketch and nailing the interactions with Marvel; adding bells & whistles to our apps using HTML, CSS & JavaScript; writing tests and sending everything up to GitHub for code review.

Prior to joining I’d started to flex some new muscles adding gizmos to my designs using jQuery, but I wrote almost no vanilla JavaScript. I was hearing words like ‘node’, ‘angular’, ‘ember’ — I had no idea what they were or how to use them, but I sensed they were somehow connected to me levelling up in the land of making web things. If you’re in a similar position now — learning to code, and up for learning more — it’d be cool to hear from you.

It’d also be great to have more designers who enjoy just enough coding knowledge to inform their work and bolster their relationships with developers, but for whom actually shipping code isn’t necessarily a priority — you could be laying out a splash page with a rough idea of how CSS transitions could be used to bring everything to life, or working on a new product feature with a basic knowledge of what’s possible with the particular app framework that you’re designing for.

Equally, we’d love to hear from designers who don’t code at all — regardless of a particular balance of skills, we’re mostly excited by the thought of making cool stuff together and we’re working to create an awesome place for designers to do their thing.