Head of UX - Tech - Manchester City Centre - Up to £80,000

Pioneering tech businesses based in the heart of Manchester City Centre seeks seasoned UX Lead to take the reins and own their UX vision. Is that you?

As the User Experience Lead you’ll have total ownership of the UX and design function for the business. You’ll lead the teach to deliver a stellar experience to their users across their digital products and platforms.

As department lead, you’ll have the autonomy to devise and implement the UX strategy, so bring your ambition! You will also inspire and mentor the UX team, deliver best practice training, and implement new and innovative ways of working that will lift the whole team.

Utilizing your background of growing and developing both team and strategies, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders across the business to pioneer the next phase of this already incredibly successful team’s evolution.

Why work here?

• Pioneering tech brand with a genuinely exciting 24 months on the horizon
• Stunning city centre offices with some of Manchester’s best food and drink on your doorstep
• A flexible benefits package to suit your own specific circumstances
• Autonomy and scope to really make the role your own
• A relaxed, forward-thinking, digital-first culture

The role will be diverse and in part shaped by your own experience and approach, but some of the main responsibilities you could expect are:

• Lead the UX team to produce a visually stunning, commercially savvy and user considerate experience across platforms
• Always understand and champion the voice of the customer
• Mentor the design team through the use of tactful feedback and leadership to support the growth and upskilling of the department
• Have the gravitas to communicate your strategy and the reasoning behind it to senior stakeholders to gain their buy in
• Work to develop a better understanding of the value of UX within the wider team, illustrating the long-term commercial benefits it can bring
• Leaning on the depth and breadth of your experience in the industry, you’ll be the go-to specialist for all things UX within the business
• Instil a user-centric design culture into the wider business
• Conduct design and product review sessions, analysing user feedback and behaviour to identify pain points and issues, but also successes and improvements

In terms of your own experience, you will have:

• Substantial amount of tried and tested experience, within user experience and design, in a leadership position
• An outstanding portfolio of products and experiences under your belt, showcasing innovative designs and approaches
• Able to communicate with stakeholders of all levels and technical understanding
• Comfortable working across various teams to drive a business vision
• On the cutting edge of digital innovation and agile ways of working

Head of UX - Tech - Manchester City Centre - Up to £80,000

Pioneering tech businesses based in the heart of Manchester City Centre seeks seasoned UX Lead to take the reins and own their UX vision. Is that you?

As the User Experience Lead you’ll have total ownership of the UX and design function for the business. You’ll lead the teach to deliver a stellar experience to their users across their digital products and platforms.

As department lead, you’ll have the autonomy to devise and implement the UX strategy, so bring your ambition! You will also inspire and mentor the UX team, deliver best practice training, and implement new and innovative ways of working that will lift the whole team.

Utilizing your background of growing and developing both team and strategies, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders across the business to pioneer the next phase of this already incredibly successful team’s evolution.

Why work here?

• Pioneering tech brand with a genuinely exciting 24 months on the horizon
• Stunning city centre offices with some of Manchester’s best food and drink on your doorstep
• A flexible benefits package to suit your own specific circumstances
• Autonomy and scope to really make the role your own
• A relaxed, forward-thinking, digital-first culture

The role will be diverse and in part shaped by your own experience and approach, but some of the main responsibilities you could expect are:

• Lead the UX team to produce a visually stunning, commercially savvy and user considerate experience across platforms
• Always understand and champion the voice of the customer
• Mentor the design team through the use of tactful feedback and leadership to support the growth and upskilling of the department
• Have the gravitas to communicate your strategy and the reasoning behind it to senior stakeholders to gain their buy in
• Work to develop a better understanding of the value of UX within the wider team, illustrating the long-term commercial benefits it can bring
• Leaning on the depth and breadth of your experience in the industry, you’ll be the go-to specialist for all things UX within the business
• Instil a user-centric design culture into the wider business
• Conduct design and product review sessions, analysing user feedback and behaviour to identify pain points and issues, but also successes and improvements

In terms of your own experience, you will have:

• Substantial amount of tried and tested experience, within user experience and design, in a leadership position
• An outstanding portfolio of products and experiences under your belt, showcasing innovative designs and approaches
• Able to communicate with stakeholders of all levels and technical understanding
• Comfortable working across various teams to drive a business vision
• On the cutting edge of digital innovation and agile ways of working

Are you a Front End Developer interesting in working on two major React + GraphQL projects? Are you looking for a team to support your progression to becoming an established Senior Front End Developer?

If so, we have the role for you.

Since starting in 2015, this team have built a global marketplace in the design industry with customers in over 85 countries and suppliers in ~70. Having proven their business model with global success they've recently taken £8m in Series A investment to scale as they expand rapidly around the world.

As part this, we're hiring a Front End Developer (X 2) to work on large roadmap of new feature development on their marketplace app and help to create an end-to-end Design Project Management tool. The position joins one of two cross-functional engineering teams alongside a tech lead, 4 engineers, Product Designer and Product Manager.

The stack here is React on the client and a Python Django backend with all infrastructure fully automated as code using Terraform onto AWS. The team are about to embark in platform wide journey into GraphQL and this position will form a key part of the project as well as their new Project Management suite.

The team here is diverse and highly capable. Engineers are trusted to drive technology selection and architecture, handling their own testing and owning their own code all the way to production.

The opportunity is intentionally positioned for a Front End Developer looking for an opportunity to progress into a Senior role in the next 12-18 months.

What are they looking for from a Front End Developer

• Experience creating SPAs with a modern framework (React, Svelte, Angular, Vue)
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript and it's quirks (ES6+)
• Understand Semantic HTML and modern approaches to CSS (CSS-in-JS, postCSS, SASS/LESS etc.)
• Comfortable testing your own code + passionate about quality

What are offering you in return?

• Support to progress into a Senior position in the next 12-18 months
• Opportunity to master React + GraphQL working on two large scale products
• Quality first engineering culture

As mentioned, this role is intentionally positioned for a Front End Developer looking for a high standards team who can support their progression into a Senior role.

If you're on this journey and interested in mastering React, GraphQL and a robust approach to testing and deployment, please apply now.

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Talent Point is a Hiring Communications business, working as sole hiring partners with our customer. We've ripped up the rules and torn apart the job spec to give you total clarity and visibility, painting a vivid picture (approved twice, both at Line and C-level) of the way this company lives, breathes and behaves, and how your role will look over years not months. We present only three applicants for every vacancy so, where we do represent you, you have a very high chance of securing a role with pre-booked interview times to plan around, in-depth vacancy details and no delays. Are you ready to seriously invest in your QA Lead progression? Let's design your future.

Talent Point is an equal opportunities employer and no terminology in this advert is designed to discriminate on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, creed, disability, age, sex or sexual orientation or any other class protected by applicable law.

For information on how Talent Point manages and processes your personal information please see our privacy at talentpoint.co/privacy-policy/

Are you a Front End Developer interesting in working on two major React + GraphQL projects? Are you looking for a team to support your progression to becoming an established Senior Front End Developer?

If so, we have the role for you.

Since starting in 2015, this team have built a global marketplace in the design industry with customers in over 85 countries and suppliers in ~70. Having proven their business model with global success they've recently taken £8m in Series A investment to scale as they expand rapidly around the world.

As part this, we're hiring a Front End Developer (X 2) to work on large roadmap of new feature development on their marketplace app and help to create an end-to-end Design Project Management tool. The position joins one of two cross-functional engineering teams alongside a tech lead, 4 engineers, Product Designer and Product Manager.

The stack here is React on the client and a Python Django backend with all infrastructure fully automated as code using Terraform onto AWS. The team are about to embark in platform wide journey into GraphQL and this position will form a key part of the project as well as their new Project Management suite.

The team here is diverse and highly capable. Engineers are trusted to drive technology selection and architecture, handling their own testing and owning their own code all the way to production.

The opportunity is intentionally positioned for a Front End Developer looking for an opportunity to progress into a Senior role in the next 12-18 months.

What are they looking for from a Front End Developer

• Experience creating SPAs with a modern framework (React, Svelte, Angular, Vue)
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript and it's quirks (ES6+)
• Understand Semantic HTML and modern approaches to CSS (CSS-in-JS, postCSS, SASS/LESS etc.)
• Comfortable testing your own code + passionate about quality

What are offering you in return?

• Support to progress into a Senior position in the next 12-18 months
• Opportunity to master React + GraphQL working on two large scale products
• Quality first engineering culture

As mentioned, this role is intentionally positioned for a Front End Developer looking for a high standards team who can support their progression into a Senior role.

If you're on this journey and interested in mastering React, GraphQL and a robust approach to testing and deployment, please apply now.

--

Talent Point is a Hiring Communications business, working as sole hiring partners with our customer. We've ripped up the rules and torn apart the job spec to give you total clarity and visibility, painting a vivid picture (approved twice, both at Line and C-level) of the way this company lives, breathes and behaves, and how your role will look over years not months. We present only three applicants for every vacancy so, where we do represent you, you have a very high chance of securing a role with pre-booked interview times to plan around, in-depth vacancy details and no delays. Are you ready to seriously invest in your QA Lead progression? Let's design your future.

Talent Point is an equal opportunities employer and no terminology in this advert is designed to discriminate on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, creed, disability, age, sex or sexual orientation or any other class protected by applicable law.

For information on how Talent Point manages and processes your personal information please see our privacy at talentpoint.co/privacy-policy/

Senior Java Engineer
Salary up to £65,000 + Bonus + 1 day Remote

Europe's leading Asset management team is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to develop on their flagship Java microservice architecture helping financial companies make better informed investment decisions.

You'll engage in the build, delivery and deployment of multiple platforms. Our Senior Java Engineer will be working on Java 8, on complex microservice development and event-based problems.

As the Senior Java Engineer you will be exposed to:

• Java 8 development scaled through various software container tools including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud-based deployment on AWS.
• Agile and Scrum development methodologies with TDD / BDD and continuous integration.
  

You as the Senior Java Engineer will be working closely with the Lead Engineer in a 100% hands-on coding function to build a system that is critical to the continued growth of the business. You will also have the opportunity to mentor more junior Java Engineers.

The offices located in Brighton are relaxed and highly collaborative. We can offer flexible working hours and a day a week from home with 27 days holiday from the get go.

Apply now for immediately consideration for this excellent Senior Java Engineeropportunity!

Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this Senior Java Engineervacancy.

Senior Java Engineer
Salary up to £65,000 + Bonus + 1 day Remote

Europe's leading Asset management team is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to develop on their flagship Java microservice architecture helping financial companies make better informed investment decisions.

You'll engage in the build, delivery and deployment of multiple platforms. Our Senior Java Engineer will be working on Java 8, on complex microservice development and event-based problems.

As the Senior Java Engineer you will be exposed to:

• Java 8 development scaled through various software container tools including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud-based deployment on AWS.
• Agile and Scrum development methodologies with TDD / BDD and continuous integration.
  

You as the Senior Java Engineer will be working closely with the Lead Engineer in a 100% hands-on coding function to build a system that is critical to the continued growth of the business. You will also have the opportunity to mentor more junior Java Engineers.

The offices located in Brighton are relaxed and highly collaborative. We can offer flexible working hours and a day a week from home with 27 days holiday from the get go.

Apply now for immediately consideration for this excellent Senior Java Engineeropportunity!

Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this Senior Java Engineervacancy.

***Python Developer - Dublin - Financial Services***

Senior Python Developer

6 months Rolling Contract

Euros pwd (Competitive)

Leopardstown

We are looking for a talented senior Python developer to work in the front office team at the bank with experience of interest rates. The developer should be interested in building cutting edge applications within one of the most interesting parts of one of the world's largest banks.

The Role and Responsibilities

As a Front Office GNLR developer you will be expected to work closing with trading desk / market risk and finance to build and support risk and PnL functionality.

Essential Skills and Experience

* Very good understanding of Python.

* Good basic understanding of interest rate products

* Good understanding of how both market risk and PnL work and an enthusiasm to learn about Non Linear Rates

Desirable

* Financial Services background

* Front Office Experience

TO APPLY - PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH AN UP TO DATE CV

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.

***Python Developer - Dublin - Financial Services***

Senior Python Developer

6 months Rolling Contract

Euros pwd (Competitive)

Leopardstown

We are looking for a talented senior Python developer to work in the front office team at the bank with experience of interest rates. The developer should be interested in building cutting edge applications within one of the most interesting parts of one of the world's largest banks.

The Role and Responsibilities

As a Front Office GNLR developer you will be expected to work closing with trading desk / market risk and finance to build and support risk and PnL functionality.

Essential Skills and Experience

* Very good understanding of Python.

* Good basic understanding of interest rate products

* Good understanding of how both market risk and PnL work and an enthusiasm to learn about Non Linear Rates

Desirable

* Financial Services background

* Front Office Experience

TO APPLY - PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL WITH AN UP TO DATE CV

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.