Senior Back End Developer

London (with travel required to Southampton 2 days a week)

£55K to £60K (depending on experience) plus extensive benefits package

Summary:

We build exceptional digital products. And that’s just the beginning…

We are on the lookout for a Senior Backend Developer to join a team dedicated to building amazing content-managed websites. That means an exciting blend of greenfield development, mixed with continuous improvement work that helps us maintain our long-term relationships with our existing partners.

Experience required to be successful in this role:

• A real passion for backend development
• A knack for googling things when you don't know the answer
• A dream to work with a great team
• Experience in an agency, or working on several concurrent projects at once
• A strong appreciation of n-Tier architecture
• Spent many fun days and/or nights with REST services (ie WebAPI)
• The 3 or 4 most useful git commands memorised or written on a Post it nearby

Useful to have, but optional

• A willingness to develop into a leader over time
• A history with .NET / ASP.NET (Webforms and MVC)
• Umbraco or Orchard Core
• Experience in an agile/lean team (eg Scrum)
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with ORMs (eg Entity Framework, nHibernate, ServiceStack, PetaPoco)
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills, particularly AngularJS (crossover knowledge only, this is a backend role)

Benefits:

• 23 - 28 days of holiday (based on your length of service)
• Plus, your birthday off (after first year of service)
• Contributory pension scheme (4-5% employer contribution depending on length of service)
• Finish at 3pm on Fridays
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme (mental health, legal and tax advice, etc)
• Free breakfast on Fridays
• Regular free lunches and drinks to reward the successes of the team
• Your choice of job-related book added to the Etch Library each month
• Employee loans
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sick pay package
• A fun and supportive working environment

Role Details

You will mostly be working on websites based on the Umbraco CMS, which means working in .NET / ASP.NET (mostly MVC). For the right candidate, we are willing to provide on the job training to introduce you to our way of working, and other relevant areas of knowledge.

We don't obsess about skill sets and keywords. Who you are is more important, and how you think is the only true requirement. If desired, this role can include oversight over some of our other developers and could be the start of a path towards a leadership role. Either way, the job involves input on a broad range of projects across the company, with some pretty exciting clients.

We work in a fluid & lean way, so you will need to be comfortable working iteratively with the REST of the team to deliver an excellent result without specifications or intensive project management. You'll be expected to take ownership of your work, manage your time, communicate in a dynamic team, and ultimately deliver quality code.

In return, you’ll have all the support you need. You’ll be working under a team lead who can manage and help you, and with other talented backend-focused colleagues. Working alongside best-in-class UX designers and frontend developers, you’ll get to deliver incredible websites, and make a real impact to our business, our relationships, and our output.

This role is available in any of our offices (Southampton, London or Cape Town) and can also have a flexible work from home option. We trust our employees and we want to find something which works for everyone, so if that sounds appealing, let's chat

Senior Back End Developer

London (with travel required to Southampton 2 days a week)

£55K to £60K (depending on experience) plus extensive benefits package

Summary:

We build exceptional digital products. And that’s just the beginning…

We are on the lookout for a Senior Backend Developer to join a team dedicated to building amazing content-managed websites. That means an exciting blend of greenfield development, mixed with continuous improvement work that helps us maintain our long-term relationships with our existing partners.

Experience required to be successful in this role:

• A real passion for backend development
• A knack for googling things when you don't know the answer
• A dream to work with a great team
• Experience in an agency, or working on several concurrent projects at once
• A strong appreciation of n-Tier architecture
• Spent many fun days and/or nights with REST services (ie WebAPI)
• The 3 or 4 most useful git commands memorised or written on a Post it nearby

Useful to have, but optional

• A willingness to develop into a leader over time
• A history with .NET / ASP.NET (Webforms and MVC)
• Umbraco or Orchard Core
• Experience in an agile/lean team (eg Scrum)
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with ORMs (eg Entity Framework, nHibernate, ServiceStack, PetaPoco)
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills, particularly AngularJS (crossover knowledge only, this is a backend role)

Benefits:

• 23 - 28 days of holiday (based on your length of service)
• Plus, your birthday off (after first year of service)
• Contributory pension scheme (4-5% employer contribution depending on length of service)
• Finish at 3pm on Fridays
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme (mental health, legal and tax advice, etc)
• Free breakfast on Fridays
• Regular free lunches and drinks to reward the successes of the team
• Your choice of job-related book added to the Etch Library each month
• Employee loans
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sick pay package
• A fun and supportive working environment

Role Details

You will mostly be working on websites based on the Umbraco CMS, which means working in .NET / ASP.NET (mostly MVC). For the right candidate, we are willing to provide on the job training to introduce you to our way of working, and other relevant areas of knowledge.

We don't obsess about skill sets and keywords. Who you are is more important, and how you think is the only true requirement. If desired, this role can include oversight over some of our other developers and could be the start of a path towards a leadership role. Either way, the job involves input on a broad range of projects across the company, with some pretty exciting clients.

We work in a fluid & lean way, so you will need to be comfortable working iteratively with the REST of the team to deliver an excellent result without specifications or intensive project management. You'll be expected to take ownership of your work, manage your time, communicate in a dynamic team, and ultimately deliver quality code.

In return, you’ll have all the support you need. You’ll be working under a team lead who can manage and help you, and with other talented backend-focused colleagues. Working alongside best-in-class UX designers and frontend developers, you’ll get to deliver incredible websites, and make a real impact to our business, our relationships, and our output.

This role is available in any of our offices (Southampton, London or Cape Town) and can also have a flexible work from home option. We trust our employees and we want to find something which works for everyone, so if that sounds appealing, let's chat

Python Software Engineer - Bristol | Artificial Intelligence (3/4 days remote) Sponsorship Available.

£30,000 - £50,000

We have exclusively partnered with this fantastic bunch who are leading the charge in artificial intelligence solutions for industry.

I cannot speak highly enough about them. I absolutely love working with them, they're such a fun group of humans with a clear mission and I so buzzing to help them grow. As of the start of April they will be moving into their brand new central bristol stunning location, surrounded by the best tech talent in Bristol.

The team are building an industrial intelligence platform that is all about collecting industrial data from various assets. Who unleash the necessary analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning or cognitive work to predict equipment failures, streamline production processes and uncover the hidden trends in production processes.

They're a creative and ambitious bunch of engineers, hackers and entrepreneurs who love building awesome technology that can make a difference. With skills that range from robotics and AI to industrial manufacturing and software engineering with a team who have worked for some of the largest organisations in these fields including Google, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Morgan Stanley and Ansys just to mention a few.

They've got one clear vision and are using all the tricks in the book to get there. I love the fact that they are highly collaborative, abuse the whiteboards, ask a lot of questions and are continuously trying to simplify and clarify the steps needed to achieve their goals. They like to properly plan before executing, create engineering design documents, architecture models, prototype and only begin implementing once they reach consensus. They are advocates of embrace change, adapt as they walk the path and strive to grow the team by hiring better, smarter people who love good and bad jokes.

Where you come in:

They are looking for a Python software engineer with a proven background of designing and implementing robust and scalable software. If you have experience in network and storage then great but you don't need full exposure. It would be great if you understand automation tools, APIs and carry extensive knowledge about testing.

Interesting technologies that they use or they like a lot (in no specific order): Ansible, Vagrant, Proxmox, MQTT, OPC-UA, RabbitMQ, Kx technologies, Kdb+, PostgreSQL, Git, Python, Django, Rust, Protocol Buffers, REST, RPC, React, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jupyter Notebooks, ELK, Sentry.

They are really autonomous but work together as team
thorough code reviews and innovation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Company profit sharing scheme.
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance.
• Flexible working hours and working from home on agreed days.
• Training and development programs.
• Family health cover.
• Pension scheme.
• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays.

They embrace diversity, bringing different people, with different backgrounds and different expertise together to build a stronger, more resilient company. The team are committed to equal employment opportunities and want to ensure that their recruitment process is accessible to everyone. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation during the process, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Python Software Engineer - Bristol | Artificial Intelligence (3/4 days remote) Sponsorship Available.

£30,000 - £50,000

We have exclusively partnered with this fantastic bunch who are leading the charge in artificial intelligence solutions for industry.

I cannot speak highly enough about them. I absolutely love working with them, they're such a fun group of humans with a clear mission and I so buzzing to help them grow. As of the start of April they will be moving into their brand new central bristol stunning location, surrounded by the best tech talent in Bristol.

The team are building an industrial intelligence platform that is all about collecting industrial data from various assets. Who unleash the necessary analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning or cognitive work to predict equipment failures, streamline production processes and uncover the hidden trends in production processes.

They're a creative and ambitious bunch of engineers, hackers and entrepreneurs who love building awesome technology that can make a difference. With skills that range from robotics and AI to industrial manufacturing and software engineering with a team who have worked for some of the largest organisations in these fields including Google, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Morgan Stanley and Ansys just to mention a few.

They've got one clear vision and are using all the tricks in the book to get there. I love the fact that they are highly collaborative, abuse the whiteboards, ask a lot of questions and are continuously trying to simplify and clarify the steps needed to achieve their goals. They like to properly plan before executing, create engineering design documents, architecture models, prototype and only begin implementing once they reach consensus. They are advocates of embrace change, adapt as they walk the path and strive to grow the team by hiring better, smarter people who love good and bad jokes.

Where you come in:

They are looking for a Python software engineer with a proven background of designing and implementing robust and scalable software. If you have experience in network and storage then great but you don't need full exposure. It would be great if you understand automation tools, APIs and carry extensive knowledge about testing.

Interesting technologies that they use or they like a lot (in no specific order): Ansible, Vagrant, Proxmox, MQTT, OPC-UA, RabbitMQ, Kx technologies, Kdb+, PostgreSQL, Git, Python, Django, Rust, Protocol Buffers, REST, RPC, React, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jupyter Notebooks, ELK, Sentry.

They are really autonomous but work together as team
thorough code reviews and innovation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Company profit sharing scheme.
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance.
• Flexible working hours and working from home on agreed days.
• Training and development programs.
• Family health cover.
• Pension scheme.
• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays.

They embrace diversity, bringing different people, with different backgrounds and different expertise together to build a stronger, more resilient company. The team are committed to equal employment opportunities and want to ensure that their recruitment process is accessible to everyone. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation during the process, please do not hesitate to let me know.