Lead Architect
12 months fixed term contract
Edinburgh
£70,000

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join a company at an exciting time with the intent to join and begin working by early April. You will be leading a small team and delivering and communicating technical designs and solution decisions, in line with architecture practices.

Naturally you will have good attention to detail and a real drive to succeed with flexibility in approach and style. You will have superb communication skills and demonstrable experience to a high level in the following key areas:
* Solution architecture and system design
* Knowledge of best practice and emerging standards and trends.
* Experience of migration and integration
* Specialist architectural and technical knowledge in relevant domains - e.g. applications, data, security etc.

If you are a hands-on Lead Architect and looking for a new challenge, please apply and send your CV today.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age

Lead Architect
12 months fixed term contract
Edinburgh
£70,000

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join a company at an exciting time with the intent to join and begin working by early April. You will be leading a small team and delivering and communicating technical designs and solution decisions, in line with architecture practices.

Naturally you will have good attention to detail and a real drive to succeed with flexibility in approach and style. You will have superb communication skills and demonstrable experience to a high level in the following key areas:
* Solution architecture and system design
* Knowledge of best practice and emerging standards and trends.
* Experience of migration and integration
* Specialist architectural and technical knowledge in relevant domains - e.g. applications, data, security etc.

If you are a hands-on Lead Architect and looking for a new challenge, please apply and send your CV today.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age

Role: Senior Backend Engineer X2

Location: Manchester

Salary: Up To £85k

About The Role

My client a fintech company that are disrupting the market are looking for a Senior Backend engineer who wants to build an amazing and scalable platform. You'll be working in a small, agile team responsible for building on the application and the backend that supports it. your focus will be on the backend, but you'll be enabled to work full-stack, collaborating within a team of frontend and backend engineers. You'll spend most of your time coding but will be encouraged to mentor and grow other members of the team and improve the way they do engineering.

What's great about it?

- Build a breakthrough consumer product that scales internationally

- Lots of opportunity to break new ground, discover and solve brand new challenges, and make key decisions covering user acquisition, engagement, retention and monetisation

- The autonomy, pace, and quick decisioning of a start-up, with the stability of a major corporate investor

Essential experience

-6+ years experience writing software in a team

-Experience with multiple backend languages (e.g. Ruby & Go)

-Knowledge and understanding of fundamental backend technologies - databases, caches, queueing systems, networks

-Able to write clean code and review code to improve standards and knowledge

-Strong Communication Skills Working With Teams Across The Company

Preferred skills:

-Experience working with cloud computing and infrastructure platforms (AWS, Google Cloud etc.)

-Experience with front-end technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native)

-Experience designing systems

-Experience working in start-ups and scale-ups

If you are interested in applying, then please send an updated copy of your CV along with a covering letter stating your salary expectations.

Role: Senior Backend Engineer X2

Location: Manchester

Salary: Up To £85k

About The Role

My client a fintech company that are disrupting the market are looking for a Senior Backend engineer who wants to build an amazing and scalable platform. You'll be working in a small, agile team responsible for building on the application and the backend that supports it. your focus will be on the backend, but you'll be enabled to work full-stack, collaborating within a team of frontend and backend engineers. You'll spend most of your time coding but will be encouraged to mentor and grow other members of the team and improve the way they do engineering.

What's great about it?

- Build a breakthrough consumer product that scales internationally

- Lots of opportunity to break new ground, discover and solve brand new challenges, and make key decisions covering user acquisition, engagement, retention and monetisation

- The autonomy, pace, and quick decisioning of a start-up, with the stability of a major corporate investor

Essential experience

-6+ years experience writing software in a team

-Experience with multiple backend languages (e.g. Ruby & Go)

-Knowledge and understanding of fundamental backend technologies - databases, caches, queueing systems, networks

-Able to write clean code and review code to improve standards and knowledge

-Strong Communication Skills Working With Teams Across The Company

Preferred skills:

-Experience working with cloud computing and infrastructure platforms (AWS, Google Cloud etc.)

-Experience with front-end technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native)

-Experience designing systems

-Experience working in start-ups and scale-ups

If you are interested in applying, then please send an updated copy of your CV along with a covering letter stating your salary expectations.

Snr Quality Analyst (QA) Engineer- Reading

£60 to £65k basic + Flexi/remote working

My client, an international full-service digital agency based in Reading is looking to hire a Snr QA Engineer/Tester, working onsite with a great team, including flexi working and the ability to work from home sometimes.

The Agency strategise, design, and develop digital solutions for the private and public sector. Their international team across UK and Netherlands of over 100 professionals work between both locations delivering exceptional solutions.

You will work with high profile clients and manage challenging impactful projects, as well as have the opportunity to work within multicultural and multidisciplinary teams. They offer on the job project experience, training and encourage knowledge sharing amongst colleagues, including Academy days, time to spend for yourself as well as time to develop your work-related initiatives.

As our Snr QA Tester you will be responsible for testing all the software that is built within your team (and offer support to other teams when required), and you will do so in close collaboration with the developers. You are in close contact with our customers and anyone else who is involved in the process of functional design and test planning. This includes integration and acceptance testing and debugging support. Oh, and you have to document and report all the issues you come across in test reports.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Test all the software that is built within your team, and offer support to other teams when needed.

Keep in close contact with our customers and anyone else who is involved in the process of functional design and test planning.

Get issues resolved and moved on by providing your technical input when required.

Create test cases and test plans.

Define and execute functional, automation and performance test plans and strategies.

Participate in implementing the Continuous Integration practice.

Ensure the quality of the delivered work of the cross-functional development team.

Test software before release to our clients; This includes integration and acceptance testing.

Offer debugging support to developers.

Document and report all the issues you come across in test reports.

WE ASK FOR

Working experience in an Agile environment including methods like Scrum.

3-5 years working experience in testing with web based applications.

Experience with browser compatibility and manual testing.

Knowledge of the software development life cycle.

Knowledge of QA automation tools like Selenium, Cucumber and Robot would be fantastic.

Certification of ISTQB, ISEB and/or TMAP would be great.

Experience with the version control system GIT

Experience with performance/load testing would be an advantage.

The ability and willingness to travel abroad

You are independent, communicative, flexible and you can prioritise.

You have great team spirit! At least, most of the time...

Important Information: We endeavour to process your personal data in a fair and transparent manner. In applying for this role, Additional Resources will be acting in your best interest and may contact you in relation to the role, either by email, phone or text message. For more information see our Privacy Policy on our website. It is important you are aware of your individual rights and the provisions the company has put in place to protect your data. If you would like further information on the policy or GDPR please contact us.

Additional Resources Ltd is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003

Snr Quality Analyst (QA) Engineer- Reading

£60 to £65k basic + Flexi/remote working

My client, an international full-service digital agency based in Reading is looking to hire a Snr QA Engineer/Tester, working onsite with a great team, including flexi working and the ability to work from home sometimes.

The Agency strategise, design, and develop digital solutions for the private and public sector. Their international team across UK and Netherlands of over 100 professionals work between both locations delivering exceptional solutions.

You will work with high profile clients and manage challenging impactful projects, as well as have the opportunity to work within multicultural and multidisciplinary teams. They offer on the job project experience, training and encourage knowledge sharing amongst colleagues, including Academy days, time to spend for yourself as well as time to develop your work-related initiatives.

As our Snr QA Tester you will be responsible for testing all the software that is built within your team (and offer support to other teams when required), and you will do so in close collaboration with the developers. You are in close contact with our customers and anyone else who is involved in the process of functional design and test planning. This includes integration and acceptance testing and debugging support. Oh, and you have to document and report all the issues you come across in test reports.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Test all the software that is built within your team, and offer support to other teams when needed.

Keep in close contact with our customers and anyone else who is involved in the process of functional design and test planning.

Get issues resolved and moved on by providing your technical input when required.

Create test cases and test plans.

Define and execute functional, automation and performance test plans and strategies.

Participate in implementing the Continuous Integration practice.

Ensure the quality of the delivered work of the cross-functional development team.

Test software before release to our clients; This includes integration and acceptance testing.

Offer debugging support to developers.

Document and report all the issues you come across in test reports.

WE ASK FOR

Working experience in an Agile environment including methods like Scrum.

3-5 years working experience in testing with web based applications.

Experience with browser compatibility and manual testing.

Knowledge of the software development life cycle.

Knowledge of QA automation tools like Selenium, Cucumber and Robot would be fantastic.

Certification of ISTQB, ISEB and/or TMAP would be great.

Experience with the version control system GIT

Experience with performance/load testing would be an advantage.

The ability and willingness to travel abroad

You are independent, communicative, flexible and you can prioritise.

You have great team spirit! At least, most of the time...

Important Information: We endeavour to process your personal data in a fair and transparent manner. In applying for this role, Additional Resources will be acting in your best interest and may contact you in relation to the role, either by email, phone or text message. For more information see our Privacy Policy on our website. It is important you are aware of your individual rights and the provisions the company has put in place to protect your data. If you would like further information on the policy or GDPR please contact us.

Additional Resources Ltd is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003

Do you have significant experience working as an operational services manager? Do you have experience managing both operations and infrastructure? If so then you may be the operational services manager, we are looking for. I am currently looking for an operational services manager to join my client on a permanent basis in Croydon.

What will you be doing?

As an operational services manager you will be the regional manager for the operational services in production. You will have responsibility for overall governance of the various 3rd parties and internal support/operations teams. You will manage the service desk whilst taking charge of ongoing reporting and manage the development of the ITSM capabilities and service delivery teams. You will be working with both infrastructure and end user services.

Key skills:

• Significant experience managing complex service organisation
• Experience of providing hosting services and infrastructure services to multi-national organisation
• Ideally ITIL qualified
• ServiceNow experience would be beneficial

Who will you be working for?

As an operational services manager you will be working for a world-renowned retail company based in Croydon, with a global presence. If you have significant experience working as an operational services manager, then please apply today.

SThree are committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity, work-life balance and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all staff and job applicants.

Do you have significant experience working as an operational services manager? Do you have experience managing both operations and infrastructure? If so then you may be the operational services manager, we are looking for. I am currently looking for an operational services manager to join my client on a permanent basis in Croydon.

What will you be doing?

As an operational services manager you will be the regional manager for the operational services in production. You will have responsibility for overall governance of the various 3rd parties and internal support/operations teams. You will manage the service desk whilst taking charge of ongoing reporting and manage the development of the ITSM capabilities and service delivery teams. You will be working with both infrastructure and end user services.

Key skills:

• Significant experience managing complex service organisation
• Experience of providing hosting services and infrastructure services to multi-national organisation
• Ideally ITIL qualified
• ServiceNow experience would be beneficial

Who will you be working for?

As an operational services manager you will be working for a world-renowned retail company based in Croydon, with a global presence. If you have significant experience working as an operational services manager, then please apply today.

SThree are committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity, work-life balance and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all staff and job applicants.

Lead Developer

Cheadle

£65,000

ShortList Recruitment are looking for a Lead Developer to join a fantastic, forward-thinking business based in Cheadle.

The Lead Developer will be at the forefront of this new project and will have the autonomy to build their own team and chose their own technologies. You will be hands-on in designing and building the new mobile application supported by a .NET back end.

The Lead Developer will have excellent knowledge of object-orientated programming and proven experience in some the following:

• C#, ASP .NET
  
• React
  
• .NET Core
  
• JavaScript
  
• IOS / Android
• Source control: JIRA, CI/CD
  

As the Lead Developer you will be accountable for producing high-quality solutions, where you will undertake development on business critical areas of software.

This is a great opportunity to work within a people-focused organisation, where they will fully support your career aims and provide the right training to help you be the best you can be. 

This Lead Developer role pays a package of £65,000 + benefits including 2 days work from home and flexible working hours. The role is based in Cheadle, easily commutable from Greater Manchester, Warrington and Cheshire.

Lead Developer

Cheadle

£65,000

ShortList Recruitment are looking for a Lead Developer to join a fantastic, forward-thinking business based in Cheadle.

The Lead Developer will be at the forefront of this new project and will have the autonomy to build their own team and chose their own technologies. You will be hands-on in designing and building the new mobile application supported by a .NET back end.

The Lead Developer will have excellent knowledge of object-orientated programming and proven experience in some the following:

• C#, ASP .NET
  
• React
  
• .NET Core
  
• JavaScript
  
• IOS / Android
• Source control: JIRA, CI/CD
  

As the Lead Developer you will be accountable for producing high-quality solutions, where you will undertake development on business critical areas of software.

This is a great opportunity to work within a people-focused organisation, where they will fully support your career aims and provide the right training to help you be the best you can be. 

This Lead Developer role pays a package of £65,000 + benefits including 2 days work from home and flexible working hours. The role is based in Cheadle, easily commutable from Greater Manchester, Warrington and Cheshire.