SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER (SYMFONY)

We are looking for a Senior Symfony Developer to play a key role in the development of a suite of Symfony based RESTful APIs and web applications in the real estate sector.

We are a global business and Innovation is at the forefront of everything we do and we are committed to connecting people to property in the digital age. We believe finding space should be an easy part of building a business.

Working alongside other Senior Developers, you will be given the opportunity to contribute and be involved in key architectural decisions as we move forward.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to apply and grow their knowledge as a Senior Symfony Developer in a company with big plans!

With an already-established customer base, we are constantly looking to expand our business further as we aim to continue dominating the commercial property tech sector moving forward.

Based out of our office in Canary Wharf, we offer a dynamic fast-paced environment that is both challenging and rewarding.

Required Skills

• PHP 7
• OOP design patterns
• Symfony 3.4 and above
• Understanding of "Thin Controllers and Fat Models/Services" philosophy
• Doctrine ORM
• GIT and Git flow
• MySQL
• PHPUnit
• Jenkins Continuous Integration / Deployment
• Queues/Messaging (RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd, SQS, ZeroMQ, Kakfa etc.)
• RESTFul API design/development best practices
• PSR coding standards
• Linux command line basics
• SOLID principles

Nice to Have

• Behat
• AWS knowledge
• Systems architecture experience
• Caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcached etc.
• Elasticsearch
• Docker/Docker Compose
• Experience of Agile methodologies including Scrum

SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER (SYMFONY)

We are looking for a Senior Symfony Developer to play a key role in the development of a suite of Symfony based RESTful APIs and web applications in the real estate sector.

We are a global business and Innovation is at the forefront of everything we do and we are committed to connecting people to property in the digital age. We believe finding space should be an easy part of building a business.

Working alongside other Senior Developers, you will be given the opportunity to contribute and be involved in key architectural decisions as we move forward.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to apply and grow their knowledge as a Senior Symfony Developer in a company with big plans!

With an already-established customer base, we are constantly looking to expand our business further as we aim to continue dominating the commercial property tech sector moving forward.

Based out of our office in Canary Wharf, we offer a dynamic fast-paced environment that is both challenging and rewarding.

Required Skills

• PHP 7
• OOP design patterns
• Symfony 3.4 and above
• Understanding of "Thin Controllers and Fat Models/Services" philosophy
• Doctrine ORM
• GIT and Git flow
• MySQL
• PHPUnit
• Jenkins Continuous Integration / Deployment
• Queues/Messaging (RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd, SQS, ZeroMQ, Kakfa etc.)
• RESTFul API design/development best practices
• PSR coding standards
• Linux command line basics
• SOLID principles

Nice to Have

• Behat
• AWS knowledge
• Systems architecture experience
• Caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcached etc.
• Elasticsearch
• Docker/Docker Compose
• Experience of Agile methodologies including Scrum

Are you a skilled SRE/DevOps Engineer ready for your next challenge? Want to work in a fast-paced agile environment using the latest tech?

A brand-new opportunity has opened for a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer/SRE to join a leading gaming tech platform based in Northwest London. Your experience with Azure, troubleshooting code and supporting live services in an on-call capacity will be maximised in this role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled DevOps/SRE professional bored of the daily routine to make a significant difference.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership and accountability for work you undertake.
• Act as a mentor to the mid-level engineers, working collaboratively in an agile environment.
• Making solid use of your problem-solving abilities when taking part in 24/7 on call support functions.
• Deal with customer traffic and supporting live web infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting web applications and load balancing.
• Taking the lead in researching and implementing new technologies.
• The ownership of all applications within your portfolio.

Skills and Requirements:

• Experience migrating to Azure, use of Azure servers, and familiarity with Azure Functions/PaaS / SaaS.
• PowerShell scripting skills
• Awareness of the practicalities of working within a 100% web-based organisation.
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools, troubleshooting (e.g. ELK stack, AppInsights and Azure Monitor).
• Experience in building container services to host and manage new or legacy systems
• Building CI/CD pipelines using automation tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Git, Chef).
• Previous experience in 24/7 High Performance Environment.
• Experience dealing with customer traffic and supporting live web infrastructure.

Tech Bonus Points:

• ARM templates to automate Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps (VSTS).
• Load Balancers (e.g. F5 Brocade, Kemp).
• .net apps and infrastructure (e.g. ELK stack, PRTG, Pingdom, CA, DataDog).
• Container orchestration (Kubernetes/ Docker).
• Azure SQL and Microsoft SQL Server
• Web and Application hosting environments (e.g. IIS, Windows Services or Nginx)

This opportunity comes with a competitive salary and benefits package, includes flexible working with a fantastic office culture/ environment.

Shortlisting ASAP!

If this sounds like the role for you or someone you know then apply now or send your CV to

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

Are you a skilled SRE/DevOps Engineer ready for your next challenge? Want to work in a fast-paced agile environment using the latest tech?

A brand-new opportunity has opened for a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer/SRE to join a leading gaming tech platform based in Northwest London. Your experience with Azure, troubleshooting code and supporting live services in an on-call capacity will be maximised in this role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled DevOps/SRE professional bored of the daily routine to make a significant difference.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership and accountability for work you undertake.
• Act as a mentor to the mid-level engineers, working collaboratively in an agile environment.
• Making solid use of your problem-solving abilities when taking part in 24/7 on call support functions.
• Deal with customer traffic and supporting live web infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting web applications and load balancing.
• Taking the lead in researching and implementing new technologies.
• The ownership of all applications within your portfolio.

Skills and Requirements:

• Experience migrating to Azure, use of Azure servers, and familiarity with Azure Functions/PaaS / SaaS.
• PowerShell scripting skills
• Awareness of the practicalities of working within a 100% web-based organisation.
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools, troubleshooting (e.g. ELK stack, AppInsights and Azure Monitor).
• Experience in building container services to host and manage new or legacy systems
• Building CI/CD pipelines using automation tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Git, Chef).
• Previous experience in 24/7 High Performance Environment.
• Experience dealing with customer traffic and supporting live web infrastructure.

Tech Bonus Points:

• ARM templates to automate Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps (VSTS).
• Load Balancers (e.g. F5 Brocade, Kemp).
• .net apps and infrastructure (e.g. ELK stack, PRTG, Pingdom, CA, DataDog).
• Container orchestration (Kubernetes/ Docker).
• Azure SQL and Microsoft SQL Server
• Web and Application hosting environments (e.g. IIS, Windows Services or Nginx)

This opportunity comes with a competitive salary and benefits package, includes flexible working with a fantastic office culture/ environment.

Shortlisting ASAP!

If this sounds like the role for you or someone you know then apply now or send your CV to

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

Senior Java Developer (work with AWS and Microservices)

Are you a Senior Java developer looking for your next challenge? Are you also looking to join a FinTech company which will offer you the opportunities for development you always wanted? If that is the case, please read on!

As a well-established technology business and an employer of choice in Milton Keynes and London, the company is currently on a transformation programme to become a full blown FinTech business.

Highlights of the role include greenfield development, polyglot environment and the ability to be upskilled in any of the following; AWS, Microservices and Spring Boot. Coupled with this, they are offering a very competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package and a flexible working environment.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Java developer who will be able to satisfy a high range of assignments requested by various internal or external stakeholders on existing products as well as new projects in the future. Ideally, you will have the ability to understand, analyse and further develop existing systems while promoting a mindset ready to innovate and disrupt!

Core tasks/responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Having the ability to build a deep understanding of data assets and the problem domain
• Be one of the main pillars in the development and innovation of a brand-new product
• Providing solutions for technical issues across a range of technologies and if required, even developing new methods
• Be an active member in addressing a variety of assignments for internal and external clients

Ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in a similar Development role with commercial experience which will possess at least some of the following specifics (or equivalents):

• Previous back end development experience in Java
• Passion for delivering high quality and maintainable code
• Previous experience of working with Spring or Spring Boot and Microservices
• Ideally, you have been previously working with AWS, Docker or Kubernetes and have a decent understanding of the front-end front as well
• Ideally industry related experience, such as finance, payments or fintech

Boasting a fast-paced environment and a culture which encourages ownership, dedication, and self-development our client is offering a highly competitive salary plus a benefits package and the opportunity to join an organisation focused to innovate and disrupt!

Apply now with an updated CV and you can secure an interview for next week!

Senior Java Developer (work with AWS and Microservices)

Are you a Senior Java developer looking for your next challenge? Are you also looking to join a FinTech company which will offer you the opportunities for development you always wanted? If that is the case, please read on!

As a well-established technology business and an employer of choice in Milton Keynes and London, the company is currently on a transformation programme to become a full blown FinTech business.

Highlights of the role include greenfield development, polyglot environment and the ability to be upskilled in any of the following; AWS, Microservices and Spring Boot. Coupled with this, they are offering a very competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package and a flexible working environment.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Java developer who will be able to satisfy a high range of assignments requested by various internal or external stakeholders on existing products as well as new projects in the future. Ideally, you will have the ability to understand, analyse and further develop existing systems while promoting a mindset ready to innovate and disrupt!

Core tasks/responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Having the ability to build a deep understanding of data assets and the problem domain
• Be one of the main pillars in the development and innovation of a brand-new product
• Providing solutions for technical issues across a range of technologies and if required, even developing new methods
• Be an active member in addressing a variety of assignments for internal and external clients

Ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in a similar Development role with commercial experience which will possess at least some of the following specifics (or equivalents):

• Previous back end development experience in Java
• Passion for delivering high quality and maintainable code
• Previous experience of working with Spring or Spring Boot and Microservices
• Ideally, you have been previously working with AWS, Docker or Kubernetes and have a decent understanding of the front-end front as well
• Ideally industry related experience, such as finance, payments or fintech

Boasting a fast-paced environment and a culture which encourages ownership, dedication, and self-development our client is offering a highly competitive salary plus a benefits package and the opportunity to join an organisation focused to innovate and disrupt!

Apply now with an updated CV and you can secure an interview for next week!

Leading insights organisation are looking to on-board a number of PHP Developers for their expanding business. Great opportunity to join one of the fastest growing businesses in London and work in a truly innovative environment.

The ideal stack we are looking for is some framework experience in either Symfony or Zend, AWS, front end skills and ability to communicate with the business.

Please apply for a full job spec and client information.

Responsibilities / Skills

• Design, implementation, and deployment of software components that solve complex problems generating positive feedback
• Understanding of and best use of design patterns
• Ability to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully
• Rapid and uneventful code reviews
• Providing useful code reviews for changes submitted by others
• Making suggestions on improvements to your team’s development and testing processes
• Confidently mentor new teammates

• Be an excellent problem solver implementing testable, maintainable and efficient components based on defined technology strategies and software engineering standards
• Have significant software engineering training, understanding SOLID design principles and the foundations of application development
• Demonstrate proven experience working in agile teams, identifying blockers and asking for help and guidance where needed
• Show experience as a strong communicator and influencer, mentoring interns and peers, as well as advising tech leads and managers
• Have proven experience in working with PHP 7.x and PHP frameworks such as Symfony or Zend
• Experience with AWS cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS and FaaS/Serverless), micro-services, CI / CD, Docker
• Experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript applying semantic, accessible HTML and using modern front end development tooling (Webpack, Yarn, Npm)
• Hands on experience with MySQL 5.x

• Experience in TDD / BDD

• Any experience with Node or React would be highly desirable

Leading insights organisation are looking to on-board a number of PHP Developers for their expanding business. Great opportunity to join one of the fastest growing businesses in London and work in a truly innovative environment.

The ideal stack we are looking for is some framework experience in either Symfony or Zend, AWS, front end skills and ability to communicate with the business.

Please apply for a full job spec and client information.

Responsibilities / Skills

• Design, implementation, and deployment of software components that solve complex problems generating positive feedback
• Understanding of and best use of design patterns
• Ability to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully
• Rapid and uneventful code reviews
• Providing useful code reviews for changes submitted by others
• Making suggestions on improvements to your team’s development and testing processes
• Confidently mentor new teammates

• Be an excellent problem solver implementing testable, maintainable and efficient components based on defined technology strategies and software engineering standards
• Have significant software engineering training, understanding SOLID design principles and the foundations of application development
• Demonstrate proven experience working in agile teams, identifying blockers and asking for help and guidance where needed
• Show experience as a strong communicator and influencer, mentoring interns and peers, as well as advising tech leads and managers
• Have proven experience in working with PHP 7.x and PHP frameworks such as Symfony or Zend
• Experience with AWS cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS and FaaS/Serverless), micro-services, CI / CD, Docker
• Experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript applying semantic, accessible HTML and using modern front end development tooling (Webpack, Yarn, Npm)
• Hands on experience with MySQL 5.x

• Experience in TDD / BDD

• Any experience with Node or React would be highly desirable

Application Security Engineer - FinTech

MarkJames is working with a leading financial services client who are fast becoming one of London's leading payment organisations. They are going through a period of rapid growth in the security team, having recently hired 3 extra heads they are now looking for an Application Security Engineer to help them embed security into their core systems.

You will be able to understand and interpret output from tooling & manual penetration tests as well as continuously develop and review their internal processes to drive business maturity. Ensuring that applications & systems at the heart of the business are secure and safe.

You will have:

• Strong understanding of information security principles & polocies
• Strong knowledge of common Web and Mobile vulnerabilities
• Experience with security tooling such as SAST, DAST, dependency checking tooling and vulnerability management tools.
• Experience working with infrastructure and development teams to embed security into new infrastructure and applications.
• Skills to automate your tasks (ideally using Python, Perl or Bash)
• Experience of working with CICD environments and using common CICD technologies such as Jenkins and container technology such as Docker.
• The ability to ensure that identified issues are prioritised and addressed in an appropriate timeframe.
• Ability to translate the security risk and impact to other departments and stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset.
• Contributions to the security community are a big plus (public research, presentations, bug bounty participation, etc)

Nice to haves:

• Security certifications (such as OSCP, Crest CRT/CCT, CISSP, SANS. Avoid mentioning your CEH).
• Software development experience
• +4 years of professional experience

Application Security Engineer - FinTech

Application Security Engineer - FinTech

MarkJames is working with a leading financial services client who are fast becoming one of London's leading payment organisations. They are going through a period of rapid growth in the security team, having recently hired 3 extra heads they are now looking for an Application Security Engineer to help them embed security into their core systems.

You will be able to understand and interpret output from tooling & manual penetration tests as well as continuously develop and review their internal processes to drive business maturity. Ensuring that applications & systems at the heart of the business are secure and safe.

You will have:

• Strong understanding of information security principles & polocies
• Strong knowledge of common Web and Mobile vulnerabilities
• Experience with security tooling such as SAST, DAST, dependency checking tooling and vulnerability management tools.
• Experience working with infrastructure and development teams to embed security into new infrastructure and applications.
• Skills to automate your tasks (ideally using Python, Perl or Bash)
• Experience of working with CICD environments and using common CICD technologies such as Jenkins and container technology such as Docker.
• The ability to ensure that identified issues are prioritised and addressed in an appropriate timeframe.
• Ability to translate the security risk and impact to other departments and stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset.
• Contributions to the security community are a big plus (public research, presentations, bug bounty participation, etc)

Nice to haves:

• Security certifications (such as OSCP, Crest CRT/CCT, CISSP, SANS. Avoid mentioning your CEH).
• Software development experience
• +4 years of professional experience

Application Security Engineer - FinTech