Why this client!

A combination of the culture, a seletion of tier 1 clients and interesting projects that challenge

Client overview:

My clients are experts in digital; providing strategic direction, user centred design and robust engineering to enterprise clients.
Their passion for delivering quality at every stage of this process sets them apart from the competition and makes them a great place to work. This commitment to quality ensures they have happy clients and a happy team that have the freedom to explore and innovative; pushing the limits of their expertise, while leaving no technical debt behind them.

The reason they can work for large corporate clients is down to the shared values and complementary skills of their team. They treat each other and their clients with professionalism and integrity respecting each other's abilities and expertise and providing support to team members where it is needed.

What they Want From You:

• Do you produce better results with less code?
• Are you constantly learning new technologies?

They are looking for a mid level Back End developer to join a compact team, you must have the ability to make big contributions in fast-paced projects. Enhance, document, establish process and improve the operability and security of web projects, be comfortable adapting to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services 

Tech Stack:

• Javascript
• CSS
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL)
• Required Skills
• Node.js
• PHP
• Javascript
• CSS
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL)
• Desirable Skills
• Knowledge of front end frameworks such as Ember / React / Angular etc
• Experience of mobile app development using framework such as Cordova
• Strong communication skills
• Understanding of design principles including grid layouts, typography, use of colour, use of white space

Perks:

30 paid holidays including bank holidays

Monthly team lunches

Fresh fruit

Cycle to work scheme

Annual training / conference attendance budget.

Team sports and activities

By applying for this role you accept the Recruiterlink terms and conditions that can be found on our website and agree to receive email notification of other suitable jobs

Why this client!

A combination of the culture, a seletion of tier 1 clients and interesting projects that challenge

Client overview:

My clients are experts in digital; providing strategic direction, user centred design and robust engineering to enterprise clients.
Their passion for delivering quality at every stage of this process sets them apart from the competition and makes them a great place to work. This commitment to quality ensures they have happy clients and a happy team that have the freedom to explore and innovative; pushing the limits of their expertise, while leaving no technical debt behind them.

The reason they can work for large corporate clients is down to the shared values and complementary skills of their team. They treat each other and their clients with professionalism and integrity respecting each other's abilities and expertise and providing support to team members where it is needed.

What they Want From You:

• Do you produce better results with less code?
• Are you constantly learning new technologies?

They are looking for a mid level Back End developer to join a compact team, you must have the ability to make big contributions in fast-paced projects. Enhance, document, establish process and improve the operability and security of web projects, be comfortable adapting to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services 

Tech Stack:

• Javascript
• CSS
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL)
• Required Skills
• Node.js
• PHP
• Javascript
• CSS
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Databases (Relational and/or NoSQL)
• Desirable Skills
• Knowledge of front end frameworks such as Ember / React / Angular etc
• Experience of mobile app development using framework such as Cordova
• Strong communication skills
• Understanding of design principles including grid layouts, typography, use of colour, use of white space

Perks:

30 paid holidays including bank holidays

Monthly team lunches

Fresh fruit

Cycle to work scheme

Annual training / conference attendance budget.

Team sports and activities

By applying for this role you accept the Recruiterlink terms and conditions that can be found on our website and agree to receive email notification of other suitable jobs

Software Developer | London | up to circa £70,000

Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists are working with an established data storage and cyber security specialist as they seek an experienced Windows Client App Developer, who can demonstrate an in-depth practical knowledge developing desktop Windows applications using C#, WPF and .NET.

You will report directly to the CTO, and you?ll be responsible for developing and modifying cutting-edge software for some of the world's most revolutionary data security products. This is a fantastic job opportunity for an ambitious Software Engineer / Software Developer to take the next step in their career with a dynamic and growing organisation.

THE TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Developers with a Bachelor?s degree and/or a solid  portfolio of work, as well as demonstrable skills with C#, WPF and .NET; able to develop desktop application(s), coupled with an understanding of REST API, Relational / NoSQL Database, JavaScript, Node, React and AWS will be highly sought after.

THE INTERVIEW PROCESS:

If you are invited for an interview there will be a small programming task / problem to solve.

THE CONCLUSION:

This job opportunity will suit a Developer who is dynamic, forward thinking and looking for the next step in their career. If you can name a few products available in the market, in which you were responsible for the whole, or part of the project delivery ? you are likely to receive an immediate interview request.

Contact Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists today for more information.

JQ_93_SD_JH

Software Developer | London | up to circa £70,000

Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists are working with an established data storage and cyber security specialist as they seek an experienced Windows Client App Developer, who can demonstrate an in-depth practical knowledge developing desktop Windows applications using C#, WPF and .NET.

You will report directly to the CTO, and you?ll be responsible for developing and modifying cutting-edge software for some of the world's most revolutionary data security products. This is a fantastic job opportunity for an ambitious Software Engineer / Software Developer to take the next step in their career with a dynamic and growing organisation.

THE TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Developers with a Bachelor?s degree and/or a solid  portfolio of work, as well as demonstrable skills with C#, WPF and .NET; able to develop desktop application(s), coupled with an understanding of REST API, Relational / NoSQL Database, JavaScript, Node, React and AWS will be highly sought after.

THE INTERVIEW PROCESS:

If you are invited for an interview there will be a small programming task / problem to solve.

THE CONCLUSION:

This job opportunity will suit a Developer who is dynamic, forward thinking and looking for the next step in their career. If you can name a few products available in the market, in which you were responsible for the whole, or part of the project delivery ? you are likely to receive an immediate interview request.

Contact Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists today for more information.

JQ_93_SD_JH

• Software Developer (C#/.NET)
• Kingston-upon-Thames, Greater London
• £60,000 to £65,000 per year

The Opportunity:

To join our nationally known provider of software solutions based in the south-west London area working as part of team of talented software developers creating unique applications for the financial services sector. Candidates will be motivated by the skills opportunities on offer with our client, along with the product and sector experience that will drive your career to the next level.

Skills and Experience:

• .NET framework and C#
• Service Oriented Architecture 
• RESTful API design 
• AWS services 
• Postgres, MySQL or other RDMS 
• MongoDB, DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases
• TDD/DDD 

Role and Responsibilities:

• Building software that users want to use, to help the team achieve their goals to the best of your ability
• Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, taking responsibility for the design, build, testing and release of working software assigned to you and your team
• Reviewing the code of other members of the team and ensure that their own code is reviewed to development standards, guidelines and the best practices agreed by the team
• Mentoring and training of junior developers within your team as and when required

Applications:

To learn more about our client and their ongoing success journey here in south-west London working as a Software Developer, please call and speak with Edward Laing here in our London offices or please email me a copy of your very latest CV or online profile for an immediate call back.

• Software Developer (C#/.NET)
• Kingston-upon-Thames, Greater London
• £60,000 to £65,000 per year

The Opportunity:

To join our nationally known provider of software solutions based in the south-west London area working as part of team of talented software developers creating unique applications for the financial services sector. Candidates will be motivated by the skills opportunities on offer with our client, along with the product and sector experience that will drive your career to the next level.

Skills and Experience:

• .NET framework and C#
• Service Oriented Architecture 
• RESTful API design 
• AWS services 
• Postgres, MySQL or other RDMS 
• MongoDB, DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases
• TDD/DDD 

Role and Responsibilities:

• Building software that users want to use, to help the team achieve their goals to the best of your ability
• Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, taking responsibility for the design, build, testing and release of working software assigned to you and your team
• Reviewing the code of other members of the team and ensure that their own code is reviewed to development standards, guidelines and the best practices agreed by the team
• Mentoring and training of junior developers within your team as and when required

Applications:

To learn more about our client and their ongoing success journey here in south-west London working as a Software Developer, please call and speak with Edward Laing here in our London offices or please email me a copy of your very latest CV or online profile for an immediate call back.

We're looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join a really 'fun' team based in Sawston, Cambridge. The company are offering a great salary, along with some awesome benefits and a friendly culture.

The role is dynamic and fast paced, and you will need to keep up to date with the latest technologies, and use agile and self-organising principles to help deliver quality products and services. 

You'll have the opportunity to:

Be part of a talented, collaborative and motivated team
Learn from and be inspired by skilled colleagues
Teach and inspire others
Work across the entire product life cycle
Develop your skill set and research / adopt the latest design patterns, methodologies, principles and technologies
Have a positive influence over high level architectural decisions
Make your mark and, in doing so, make us better
You'll need to be a motivated DevOps Engineer to join an agile cross-functional product team, comprising Product Management, UX Design,QA and Development.
You will be responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions for new and existing products, almost exclusively on the AWS platform.
You will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, solid communication skills, a desire to tackle the complex problems and a genuine passion for technology. While you may come from an infrastructure background, you should be comfortable with writing scripts and basic software code to enhance and streamline your daily activities. They are currently using the following technologies (but this is evolving all the time):

AWS - CloudFormation, EC2/ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito etc
NoSQL - DynamoDB, CouchBase
Operating Platforms - Windows, Linux, Docker
SQL - MySQL / SQL Server
Scripting Languages - PowerShell, Bash
CI / CD - Git, TeamCity, AWS CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, Terraform
Other stuff - ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ Skills & experience that you'll struggle without.....
You don't need to have every single one of these skills, but the more you have, the more likely it is you'll be able to do a great job:

Senior technical infrastructure skills in a complex environment across servers, storage and networks
Strong AWS experience
Sound experience with programming and scripting in a server and/or web environment
Experience in designing and implementing simple solutions to tricky problems
Experience with infrastructure or application automation
Understanding of microservice based architectures
Experience with maintaining and supporting large scale customer facing environments
Experience with implementing containerised workloads
Good understanding of key web environments and protocols
Good networking experience with at least basic understanding of IP, network traffic flow, network ports and protocols (e.g. http, https, smtp, ftp)
Comfortable with using Windows and Linux command line tools for administration tasks
Sound analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
Good knowledge of security as it relates to cloud based infrastructure
Experience with Scrum methodology
Proficient oral and written communication skills
Passion for technology and innovation Skills & experience that would be a bonus We'll get pretty excited if you also have some of these:

Managing large scale tasks from inception to completion
Database administration including enhancing performance and building resilient solutions
Javascript and/or Lambda function writing
Automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, ...)
CI/CD principles and best practices (Git-based workflows, pipelines, IaC, shift-left, immutable systems, ...)
Kubernetes/EKS
Knowledge of .NET and .NET Core frameworks
Tertiary degree in computer science or related areas Start: Immediate 
Location: Sawston, Cambridge
Salary: £50,000 to £70,000
Benefits: 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Birthday + Duvet Day! Flexible Hours, Remote Working and much, much more!

If you are interested in this position, feel you have the relevant experience and skills and would like to apply, please call our team on (phone number removed) or apply online.

Whilst we’d love to get back to every applicant, it is not always possible, so if you haven’t heard from us within 3-5 days, please note that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Aspire Cambridge is acting as an Employment Agency in regards to this Permanent opportunity.

We're looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join a really 'fun' team based in Sawston, Cambridge. The company are offering a great salary, along with some awesome benefits and a friendly culture.

The role is dynamic and fast paced, and you will need to keep up to date with the latest technologies, and use agile and self-organising principles to help deliver quality products and services. 

You'll have the opportunity to:

Be part of a talented, collaborative and motivated team
Learn from and be inspired by skilled colleagues
Teach and inspire others
Work across the entire product life cycle
Develop your skill set and research / adopt the latest design patterns, methodologies, principles and technologies
Have a positive influence over high level architectural decisions
Make your mark and, in doing so, make us better
You'll need to be a motivated DevOps Engineer to join an agile cross-functional product team, comprising Product Management, UX Design,QA and Development.
You will be responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions for new and existing products, almost exclusively on the AWS platform.
You will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, solid communication skills, a desire to tackle the complex problems and a genuine passion for technology. While you may come from an infrastructure background, you should be comfortable with writing scripts and basic software code to enhance and streamline your daily activities. They are currently using the following technologies (but this is evolving all the time):

AWS - CloudFormation, EC2/ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito etc
NoSQL - DynamoDB, CouchBase
Operating Platforms - Windows, Linux, Docker
SQL - MySQL / SQL Server
Scripting Languages - PowerShell, Bash
CI / CD - Git, TeamCity, AWS CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, Terraform
Other stuff - ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ Skills & experience that you'll struggle without.....
You don't need to have every single one of these skills, but the more you have, the more likely it is you'll be able to do a great job:

Senior technical infrastructure skills in a complex environment across servers, storage and networks
Strong AWS experience
Sound experience with programming and scripting in a server and/or web environment
Experience in designing and implementing simple solutions to tricky problems
Experience with infrastructure or application automation
Understanding of microservice based architectures
Experience with maintaining and supporting large scale customer facing environments
Experience with implementing containerised workloads
Good understanding of key web environments and protocols
Good networking experience with at least basic understanding of IP, network traffic flow, network ports and protocols (e.g. http, https, smtp, ftp)
Comfortable with using Windows and Linux command line tools for administration tasks
Sound analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
Good knowledge of security as it relates to cloud based infrastructure
Experience with Scrum methodology
Proficient oral and written communication skills
Passion for technology and innovation Skills & experience that would be a bonus We'll get pretty excited if you also have some of these:

Managing large scale tasks from inception to completion
Database administration including enhancing performance and building resilient solutions
Javascript and/or Lambda function writing
Automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, ...)
CI/CD principles and best practices (Git-based workflows, pipelines, IaC, shift-left, immutable systems, ...)
Kubernetes/EKS
Knowledge of .NET and .NET Core frameworks
Tertiary degree in computer science or related areas Start: Immediate 
Location: Sawston, Cambridge
Salary: £50,000 to £70,000
Benefits: 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays + Birthday + Duvet Day! Flexible Hours, Remote Working and much, much more!

If you are interested in this position, feel you have the relevant experience and skills and would like to apply, please call our team on (phone number removed) or apply online.

Whilst we’d love to get back to every applicant, it is not always possible, so if you haven’t heard from us within 3-5 days, please note that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Aspire Cambridge is acting as an Employment Agency in regards to this Permanent opportunity.

REF: DW1457
LOCATION: Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
JOB TITLE: Lead Software Developer
SALARY & BENEFITS: circa £36,669 to £44,855 dependent on skills and experience plus great staff benefits including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, generous pension, performance related bonus, enhanced maternity/paternity pay, employee cash back and voucher incentives, and excellent working conditions and perks
WORKING HOURS: Full Time –Monday to Friday flexible working and some working from home options for the right candidate

THE COMPANY, ROLE & YOU: Are you an experienced Lead Software Developer with strong coding, analytical, and problem solving skills ? Bored of working in a one-dimensional/overly transactional role? And want to take the next step up?

Our client is part of the Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment family, and is a vibrant organisation which has established a reputation over 30 years for innovation and quality in educational assessment and research. This branch of the family works with schools, colleges, education authorities, government agencies and other organisations to provide high-quality information through scientifically grounded research.

The work will cover the development of new digital educational products, re-architecture of existing products and other exciting developments as CEM integrates as part of the Cambridge family and you will be based at a new vibrant office in Gateshead Quays from May 2020 onwards.

The new office is a fantastic and vibrant new facility along The Quayside close to the Sage and offers superb staff and employee benefits including a well-being room and on-site cafe with numerous options.

As a Lead Software Developer you will be joining a team of Developers within the CEM Operations department and will be helping to deliver the technical development for CEM’s digital educational products. The role will involve working in one of several agile teams to develop software for digital educational products by utilising a mix of technologies including C# .NET, TypeScript, SQL Server and NoSQL databases. You will also share your wealth of experience and knowledge with Junior Software Developers, and will be expected to offer them guidance, support and mentoring. As well as other developers you will also work with product managers, educational experts, data scientists, designers and more to help achieve the following tasks;

Development and maintenance of software to agreed standards and processes
- Able to act as ‘Solution Owner’ – leading on the development in areas of CEM’s systems
- Develop code to agreed standards using SOLID principles
- Creation of unit tests within a test driven development framework
- Excellent and appropriate documentation in agreed formats
- Code reviews
- Good use of source control, deployment tooling and issue tracking software
- Mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff

Working as part of an Agile Team own and deliver tasks and work items
- Proactive ownership of own work
- Issue resolution and appropriate escalation
- Attendance at daily stand-up meetings and reviews
- Deliver work to agreed timescales and quality
- Updating of assigned tasks in Jira

Input into team planning and reviews
- Refine requirements
- Estimate work
- Identification of technical and process improvements
- Assist in work prioritisation
- work with wider stakeholders

THE CANDIDATE: The successful candidate for the Lead Software Developer post will need to hold a good technical degree or an equivalent qualification and experience, and although candidates do not need to be experts in all areas, you will need to have substantial hands on Software Development and Coding experience using either C# or Typescript, SQL, Python, or Javascript. You will need to be able to demonstrate a good understanding of software development design principals and patterns, and have strong analytical and problem solving skills, as well as being an excellent communicator in general.

The new Lead Software Developer will also need experience in object orientated development, as well as knowledge or an understanding of agile development methodologies within an environment using Continuous Integration, and will need to have experience using developing systems that contain multiple components. Candidates will also need to be a collaborative and team orientated individuals who are happy to share their knowledge and experience with Junior Developers and offer them mentoring or guidance where required, and although not essential, it would be highly desirable if candidates also have experience administering and maintaining services on Linux-based servers. Candidates will also need to be able to commute to The Quays in Gateshead, Newcastle which is easily accessible via public transport and within walking distance to the Metro and Newcastle Central train station.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.

Does this sound like you? If Yes then click the apply button now!

You will then be sent to an online questionnaire to support your CV and application, please fill in the details and we will be in touch to advise you of the next steps

TSLS

REF: DW1457
LOCATION: Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
JOB TITLE: Lead Software Developer
SALARY & BENEFITS: circa £36,669 to £44,855 dependent on skills and experience plus great staff benefits including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, generous pension, performance related bonus, enhanced maternity/paternity pay, employee cash back and voucher incentives, and excellent working conditions and perks
WORKING HOURS: Full Time –Monday to Friday flexible working and some working from home options for the right candidate

THE COMPANY, ROLE & YOU: Are you an experienced Lead Software Developer with strong coding, analytical, and problem solving skills ? Bored of working in a one-dimensional/overly transactional role? And want to take the next step up?

Our client is part of the Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment family, and is a vibrant organisation which has established a reputation over 30 years for innovation and quality in educational assessment and research. This branch of the family works with schools, colleges, education authorities, government agencies and other organisations to provide high-quality information through scientifically grounded research.

The work will cover the development of new digital educational products, re-architecture of existing products and other exciting developments as CEM integrates as part of the Cambridge family and you will be based at a new vibrant office in Gateshead Quays from May 2020 onwards.

The new office is a fantastic and vibrant new facility along The Quayside close to the Sage and offers superb staff and employee benefits including a well-being room and on-site cafe with numerous options.

As a Lead Software Developer you will be joining a team of Developers within the CEM Operations department and will be helping to deliver the technical development for CEM’s digital educational products. The role will involve working in one of several agile teams to develop software for digital educational products by utilising a mix of technologies including C# .NET, TypeScript, SQL Server and NoSQL databases. You will also share your wealth of experience and knowledge with Junior Software Developers, and will be expected to offer them guidance, support and mentoring. As well as other developers you will also work with product managers, educational experts, data scientists, designers and more to help achieve the following tasks;

Development and maintenance of software to agreed standards and processes
- Able to act as ‘Solution Owner’ – leading on the development in areas of CEM’s systems
- Develop code to agreed standards using SOLID principles
- Creation of unit tests within a test driven development framework
- Excellent and appropriate documentation in agreed formats
- Code reviews
- Good use of source control, deployment tooling and issue tracking software
- Mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff

Working as part of an Agile Team own and deliver tasks and work items
- Proactive ownership of own work
- Issue resolution and appropriate escalation
- Attendance at daily stand-up meetings and reviews
- Deliver work to agreed timescales and quality
- Updating of assigned tasks in Jira

Input into team planning and reviews
- Refine requirements
- Estimate work
- Identification of technical and process improvements
- Assist in work prioritisation
- work with wider stakeholders

THE CANDIDATE: The successful candidate for the Lead Software Developer post will need to hold a good technical degree or an equivalent qualification and experience, and although candidates do not need to be experts in all areas, you will need to have substantial hands on Software Development and Coding experience using either C# or Typescript, SQL, Python, or Javascript. You will need to be able to demonstrate a good understanding of software development design principals and patterns, and have strong analytical and problem solving skills, as well as being an excellent communicator in general.

The new Lead Software Developer will also need experience in object orientated development, as well as knowledge or an understanding of agile development methodologies within an environment using Continuous Integration, and will need to have experience using developing systems that contain multiple components. Candidates will also need to be a collaborative and team orientated individuals who are happy to share their knowledge and experience with Junior Developers and offer them mentoring or guidance where required, and although not essential, it would be highly desirable if candidates also have experience administering and maintaining services on Linux-based servers. Candidates will also need to be able to commute to The Quays in Gateshead, Newcastle which is easily accessible via public transport and within walking distance to the Metro and Newcastle Central train station.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.

Does this sound like you? If Yes then click the apply button now!

You will then be sent to an online questionnaire to support your CV and application, please fill in the details and we will be in touch to advise you of the next steps

TSLS