NearForm
NearForm
NearForm provides software design & development skills and methodologies for organisations across the world, enabling them to embrace modern application, system and process development to sustain innovation. NearForm builds software that integrates digital technology into all areas of a business, helping our clients to improve the way they operate and the value they bring to their customers. NearForm brings particular expertise in delivering custom software solutions using open source tools, to ensure clients can future-proof their digital transformation initiatives, spend less, become more efficient and have the ability to implement their ideas quickly. Our teams are leading the way in open, modern software, UX/UI design and problem solving. Located around the world we use our unique delivery model to simplify and solve complex business and technology challenges for global enterprises across multiple industry sectors. We use agile methodologies, DevOps and provide capability-building to deliver future speed and repeatable success for our clients.
We believe that legacy integration evolving together with modern technology unlocks the greatest opportunities for innovation. We understand the risks involved in moving from legacy systems and processes to a more open technology platform. Our proven methodology based on design-thinking, collaboration and validation ensures we identify risks early and can move quickly to deal with them. We are builders, thinkers, problem solvers. Whether it’s building an optimum solution to migrate & integrate Conde Nast’s global disparate CMS or delivering EY’s self-directed online learning platform for SMEs, NearForm’s expert team of developers, UX designers, architects, software engineers and DevOps wizards have proven capabilities to quickly take your ideas from concept to reality.
NearForm is hiring
Our remote-first culture means our people are widely dispersed but we form a tightly knit team. Truly committed to shaping a better world in all that we do, and building on our open source origins, we promote the sharing of thoughts, knowledge and ideas. Hence the reason we’re at FullStack London!
If you like the sound of NearForm and would love to work with us, we are growing our team of Senior Node/React developers and DevOps Engineers. Visit our Careers page to find out more.
Join NearForm at https://www.nearform.com/careers/
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Featuring James Milner
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What I Learnt by Building the Exact Same App in Kotlin (Native Android), Nativescript and Flutter
Featuring Arnav Gupta
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Featuring Jennifer Creighton
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Lightning Talk: Streamline: A super-efficient branching and CI strategy
Featuring Joe Devine and Jonathan Irving
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Lightning Talk: Server Side Rendering with React.js and Node.js
Featuring Matt Long
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Lightning Talk: Coding: You Either Love Or Hate It, Or Why You Should Open-Source For Real.
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How to build X in 3D – A short Introduction to BabylonJS
Featuring Christina Zenzes and Anna Backs
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