• Fancy getting your hands stuck into a rapidly growing fintech start-up?

• Want to be able to speak your mind and have your ideas implemented?

• How does migrating to microservices as you scale out on Azure using .NET Core to code sound?

THE COMPANY: A meaningful Fintech that affects the lives of millions all over the world as businesses, consumers, even the government change the way they think.

My client is growing at an alarming rate with their multi-award-winning, game-changing technology - They take a pulse of consumer sentiment whenever a customer pays, on the payment terminal. With up to 91%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% of consumers responding, for the first time ever businesses can now gain access to mass, representative and validated feedback

No other business in the world is combining online and offline sentiment and consumer behaviour data in huge volumes, at near to real time. They’re collecting millions of ratings and over 50m data points every week and are ‘live’ in the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and NZ.

LOCATION: East Central London

THE ROLE: I’m looking for a Software Engineer Unicorn to quickly integrate into the tech team and help them deliver on their ambitious and challenging roadmap as they continue to roll out across the globe.

In order to make the user experience consistent and intuitive across the dizzying array of devices and platforms they’re currently targeting, you will need to apply flexibility and creative thinking on a daily basis to help bring the truth back to ratings around the world.

Your day to day –

• Working with technical team leads to develop and deliver high performance APIs, front end web applications and services.
• Implement and maintain consumer applications and internal back office tools.
• Code highly scalable and efficient software.
• Fix bugs / defects in unfamiliar code.
• Learn new paradigms, languages, and libraries as you work.
• Investigate new technologies and their applicability to the company’s offering.

Essential experience in (and I mean essential) –

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in commercial software development
• .Net (C#)
• SQL Server
• Javascript frameworks (Angular/React)
• HTML 5, CSS3
• ORM (Entity Framework, Dapper)
• IOC Framework
• Unit Testing/Mocking Framework (Xunit, moq)
• GitHub

Bonus points for –

• .Net Core
• Azure DevOps (CI/CD)
• Azure cloud
• Message Queueing Systems
• Microservices

YOUR PACKAGE:

• A competitive salary of £65,000 to £75,000
• Flexi-hours & remote work when you need it (never are you micromanaged, you’re treated like an Adult)
• Share options after probation (you get a piece of the pie)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private healthcare with BUPA
• Pension with SMART
• Life Insurance with Canada Life
• And countless treats, fruit, drinks stocked all week to keep you energised!

• Fancy getting your hands stuck into a rapidly growing fintech start-up?

• Want to be able to speak your mind and have your ideas implemented?

• How does migrating to microservices as you scale out on Azure using .NET Core to code sound?

THE COMPANY: A meaningful Fintech that affects the lives of millions all over the world as businesses, consumers, even the government change the way they think.

My client is growing at an alarming rate with their multi-award-winning, game-changing technology - They take a pulse of consumer sentiment whenever a customer pays, on the payment terminal. With up to 91%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% of consumers responding, for the first time ever businesses can now gain access to mass, representative and validated feedback

No other business in the world is combining online and offline sentiment and consumer behaviour data in huge volumes, at near to real time. They’re collecting millions of ratings and over 50m data points every week and are ‘live’ in the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and NZ.

LOCATION: East Central London

THE ROLE: I’m looking for a Software Engineer Unicorn to quickly integrate into the tech team and help them deliver on their ambitious and challenging roadmap as they continue to roll out across the globe.

In order to make the user experience consistent and intuitive across the dizzying array of devices and platforms they’re currently targeting, you will need to apply flexibility and creative thinking on a daily basis to help bring the truth back to ratings around the world.

Your day to day –

• Working with technical team leads to develop and deliver high performance APIs, front end web applications and services.
• Implement and maintain consumer applications and internal back office tools.
• Code highly scalable and efficient software.
• Fix bugs / defects in unfamiliar code.
• Learn new paradigms, languages, and libraries as you work.
• Investigate new technologies and their applicability to the company’s offering.

Essential experience in (and I mean essential) –

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in commercial software development
• .Net (C#)
• SQL Server
• Javascript frameworks (Angular/React)
• HTML 5, CSS3
• ORM (Entity Framework, Dapper)
• IOC Framework
• Unit Testing/Mocking Framework (Xunit, moq)
• GitHub

Bonus points for –

• .Net Core
• Azure DevOps (CI/CD)
• Azure cloud
• Message Queueing Systems
• Microservices

YOUR PACKAGE:

• A competitive salary of £65,000 to £75,000
• Flexi-hours & remote work when you need it (never are you micromanaged, you’re treated like an Adult)
• Share options after probation (you get a piece of the pie)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private healthcare with BUPA
• Pension with SMART
• Life Insurance with Canada Life
• And countless treats, fruit, drinks stocked all week to keep you energised!

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to a variety of industries?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• Want increased work/life flexibility?

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript.  This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.   

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.  

Essential Skills -  

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for –

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to a variety of industries?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• Want increased work/life flexibility?

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript.  This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.   

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.  

Essential Skills -  

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for –

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

Position: Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Location: London

Salary: £40,000 - £55,000 DOE

Permanent

A  BI Developer needed for a leading provider of student accommodation in the UK. You will ultimately be responsible for the design, development and delivery of BI datasets and reports in line with business requirements utilizing the Microsoft BI Stack (including SQL Server and Azure, and other technologies where appropriate). You will be able to deliver key BI solutions in an agile and responsive manner, and will work on a variety of projects, from ad-hoc business queries to large-scale reporting and analytics solutions.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Development of end-to-end BI solutions
• Capture, interpret and document business requirements for the implementation of BI solutions
• Support in the planning and management of BI projects and workstreams
• Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of the BI platform
• Support in the development of rapid proof of concept solutions for test/learn activities with key business stakeholders
• Support of the BI roadmap
• Support in the design, documentation and implementation of an industry-leading overall cloud- based BI solution
• Peer-to-peer testing and QA of BI solutions
• BI Team mentoring
• Support in the training and education of business users of all BI solutions

Knowledge & Qualifications:

• A deep knowledge of how to fully utilise the capabilities of the Power BI system
• Experience with design and delivery of BI and analytics reporting to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Microsoft BI stack (both Azure and SQL Server (on-prem)
• Power BI development experience (data capture, report building and design) – must

           be able to provide a ‘portfolio’/examples of reports built by the applicant

• Power BI – DAX functions
• Power BI Gateway (on-premise) – setup, monitoring, trouble shooting, and maintenance
• SSRS (SQL Server Report Services / Power BI Reporting Services) – development of paginated and mobile optimised reports
• SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) – ETL process planning/design and development
• SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) – tabular model design and development
• SQL (SSMS – SQL Server Management Studio)
• Excel – Including Power Query and Power Pivot
• Data visualisation (application of best practice)
• Star Schema design
• Experience of the full report development lifecycle
• Hands-on experience of statistical analysis and its implementation in BI models
• DataWarehouse design in implementation
• R (* desirable; not required)
• Python (* desirable; not required)

Please Note:

• Regular travel to / from Head Office in London is expected.

Position: Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Location: London

Salary: £40,000 - £55,000 DOE

Permanent

A  BI Developer needed for a leading provider of student accommodation in the UK. You will ultimately be responsible for the design, development and delivery of BI datasets and reports in line with business requirements utilizing the Microsoft BI Stack (including SQL Server and Azure, and other technologies where appropriate). You will be able to deliver key BI solutions in an agile and responsive manner, and will work on a variety of projects, from ad-hoc business queries to large-scale reporting and analytics solutions.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Development of end-to-end BI solutions
• Capture, interpret and document business requirements for the implementation of BI solutions
• Support in the planning and management of BI projects and workstreams
• Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of the BI platform
• Support in the development of rapid proof of concept solutions for test/learn activities with key business stakeholders
• Support of the BI roadmap
• Support in the design, documentation and implementation of an industry-leading overall cloud- based BI solution
• Peer-to-peer testing and QA of BI solutions
• BI Team mentoring
• Support in the training and education of business users of all BI solutions

Knowledge & Qualifications:

• A deep knowledge of how to fully utilise the capabilities of the Power BI system
• Experience with design and delivery of BI and analytics reporting to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Microsoft BI stack (both Azure and SQL Server (on-prem)
• Power BI development experience (data capture, report building and design) – must

           be able to provide a ‘portfolio’/examples of reports built by the applicant

• Power BI – DAX functions
• Power BI Gateway (on-premise) – setup, monitoring, trouble shooting, and maintenance
• SSRS (SQL Server Report Services / Power BI Reporting Services) – development of paginated and mobile optimised reports
• SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) – ETL process planning/design and development
• SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) – tabular model design and development
• SQL (SSMS – SQL Server Management Studio)
• Excel – Including Power Query and Power Pivot
• Data visualisation (application of best practice)
• Star Schema design
• Experience of the full report development lifecycle
• Hands-on experience of statistical analysis and its implementation in BI models
• DataWarehouse design in implementation
• R (* desirable; not required)
• Python (* desirable; not required)

Please Note:

• Regular travel to / from Head Office in London is expected.

The Role: Automation Test Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes

Salary: £50,000 DOE

Important: You do have to go through security clearance.

Automation Test Engineer needed for a market leader that provides specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. They support 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

What you will be doing:

As part of the role you will develop and maintain the automated test framework of my client’s RESTful platform and associated web interfaces and systems. You will apply, design and develop automated testing strategies as well as analyze and verify the best automated and manual test approaches. You will also execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing and be involved in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting end user requirements.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Excellent knowledge and experience in testing Java based applications and web services
• Excellence in the construction and maintenance of automated test frameworks
• Good understanding of automated UI testing tools and techniques e.g. Selenium
• Practical knowledge of TDD & BDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance) with Jenkins and Git
• Good understanding of black and while box testing
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in testing RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications
• Experience in performance testing approaches e.g. JMeter
• Experience in security and penetration testing
• Experience in UI testing with Selenium
• Experience in BDD test automation using Gherkin & Cucumber
• Experience in testing service based, event driven and event sourced architectures

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Remote working
• Flexible working time
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidized private health choice
• 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays. Option to flex this by five days.

The Role: Automation Test Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes

Salary: £50,000 DOE

Important: You do have to go through security clearance.

Automation Test Engineer needed for a market leader that provides specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. They support 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

What you will be doing:

As part of the role you will develop and maintain the automated test framework of my client’s RESTful platform and associated web interfaces and systems. You will apply, design and develop automated testing strategies as well as analyze and verify the best automated and manual test approaches. You will also execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing and be involved in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting end user requirements.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Excellent knowledge and experience in testing Java based applications and web services
• Excellence in the construction and maintenance of automated test frameworks
• Good understanding of automated UI testing tools and techniques e.g. Selenium
• Practical knowledge of TDD & BDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance) with Jenkins and Git
• Good understanding of black and while box testing
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in testing RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications
• Experience in performance testing approaches e.g. JMeter
• Experience in security and penetration testing
• Experience in UI testing with Selenium
• Experience in BDD test automation using Gherkin & Cucumber
• Experience in testing service based, event driven and event sourced architectures

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Remote working
• Flexible working time
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidized private health choice
• 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays. Option to flex this by five days.

Position: Support Helpdesk Manager

Location: Berkshire

Salary: £40k - £48K

IMPORTANT: Must be fluent in either French/Swedish/Dutch/German

My clients are a friendly IT software company with approximately 50 employees. They create, sells, implement and support their rental software solutions to companies that hire equipment and service events.

         What you will be doing

• As the IT Support Helpdesk Manager, you will be responsible for the team that provides the first point of contact for customers. This will include everything from dealing with customer queries through to resolving and advising on technical problems related to our client’s software solutions.
• Due to the small and highly integrated nature of the support team, you will be the conduit for all other parts of the business from the software projects team, to the technical team and the development team.

         Ideally, your skills will include:

•      Fluent/native in 1 of 4 different languages other than English.
•      Excellent written and spoken English.
•      Ability to work on own initiative
•      Previous experience of supporting customers or customer service roles
•      Previous experience in managing a team
•     Team Player - great communication skills
•     Knowledge of Microsoft SQL is useful though not essential.

        Benefits:

• 22+ days holiday
• Private Healthcare
• Flexible benefits scheme
• Pension

Position: Support Helpdesk Manager

Location: Berkshire

Salary: £40k - £48K

IMPORTANT: Must be fluent in either French/Swedish/Dutch/German

My clients are a friendly IT software company with approximately 50 employees. They create, sells, implement and support their rental software solutions to companies that hire equipment and service events.

         What you will be doing

• As the IT Support Helpdesk Manager, you will be responsible for the team that provides the first point of contact for customers. This will include everything from dealing with customer queries through to resolving and advising on technical problems related to our client’s software solutions.
• Due to the small and highly integrated nature of the support team, you will be the conduit for all other parts of the business from the software projects team, to the technical team and the development team.

         Ideally, your skills will include:

•      Fluent/native in 1 of 4 different languages other than English.
•      Excellent written and spoken English.
•      Ability to work on own initiative
•      Previous experience of supporting customers or customer service roles
•      Previous experience in managing a team
•     Team Player - great communication skills
•     Knowledge of Microsoft SQL is useful though not essential.

        Benefits:

• 22+ days holiday
• Private Healthcare
• Flexible benefits scheme
• Pension