Location: Glasgow Office / Home-based / Remote (with occasional UK travel)
Hours: Monday–Friday, 09:00–17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
Reporting to: Director of Operations

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer with strong full-stack expertise to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and high-quality software solutions. The role combines hands-on development with technical leadership, mentoring, and contribution to architectural decisions.

You will work closely with product owners, analysts, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions, while organising and managing your own workload independently.

Responsibilities may evolve as the organisation grows, including opportunities for further technical leadership or specialisation. Funded training and professional development may be available.

Key Responsibilities

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Design, develop, test, and deploy robust, secure, and maintainable software solutions

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Contribute to architectural decisions aligned with business and technical strategy

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Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, integrations, and front-end components where required

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Lead and participate in code reviews, promoting high standards of quality, testing, and documentation

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Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices

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Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across systems and environments

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Mentor and support junior developers, encouraging best practices and knowledge sharing

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Work collaboratively with Product, UX/UI, DevOps, and QA teams within an Agile environment

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Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

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Recommend and implement improvements to systems, tools, and development processes

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Undertake ad-hoc duties and occasional flexible working (evenings/weekends) where required

General Responsibilities

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Plan and organise workload across multiple projects to meet agreed objectives and timelines

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Provide specialist advice and guidance related to key work streams

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Maintain non-technical knowledge of systems in use or planned for deployment

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Contribute to continuous improvement and process optimisation initiatives

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Comply with data protection, Caldicott recommendations, and IT security policies

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Ensure company-issued assets are handled securely

Security, Travel and Compliance

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Full, clean UK driving licence and access to a suitable vehicle are required

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Travel to UK locations is expected

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DBS, NPPV Level 3, and HMPPS Cat A Security Clearance are mandatory and must be maintained

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Failure to obtain or maintain required vetting will result in termination of employment

Person Specification

Essential

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Significant hands-on full-stack development experience

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Strong knowledge of modern programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript)

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Experience with backend frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot, Node.js, Flask/FastAPI) and React

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Experience working in Agile teams using version control (e.g. Git)

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Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines

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Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

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Ability to work independently, take ownership, and mentor others

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Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Desirable

Experience in regulated environments (health, justice, or central government)

Previous senior or lead developer experience

Experience with microservices, Kubernetes, serverless, or large-scale system design

Head of Engineering & AI

Location: Remote with travel to office or client site as requested.

QA, Test Automation, Test Management, Cloud, CI/CD, AI, Operations Manager, Leadership

Job Purpose

As the Head of Engineering & AI you’ll lead a team of Product Manager, QA Engineers and Developers within your team to drive efforts to deliver our Engineering products, automation test services & solutions, that will support our services, our clients, and their associated projects. You will be the owner of our engineering and automation related services & products.

You will be working with QA engineers to define and guide automation best practice and methodologies, support and mentor QA Engineers working at client sites, to formulate automation test strategies and keep our automated testing solutions up to date, utilising the coding efforts of the team.

You will work with our developers to plan, design, and develop products and enhancements to our product set, along with defining the ongoing product roadmaps.

You will keep up to date with the latest technologies and ensure the proof-of-concept environments, and demo environments are built and maintained. You will also assist with demonstrating the benefits of automation to our clients.

You will build business cases and lead on automation business development and sales activities, assisting with bids and sales activities, and assisting with demonstrations to secure new clients.

You will build partnerships with tool providers, building strong relationships and partnership agreements to ensure cost and support offers the best value and service to our clients.

You will be the driver and lead on all things automation and product development related.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership
▪ Provide leadership and technical expertise within Engineering, Test Automation and Quality Assurance.
▪ You will manage and support the QA Automation Engineers and developers placed within client sites and remote developers
▪ Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.
▪ You will support automation framework and product development activities, highlighting resource requirements against development plans
▪ You will be the point of escalation for our Automation Services and QA Engineers and Development resource
▪ You will keep QA best practice standards up to date, along with supporting documentation for service support, onboarding, and maintenance.
▪ Manage training and continuous learning of QA staff by means of short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications, etc.
▪ Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance automation and products and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams.
▪ Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools, and Techniques across the teams and our clients.

QA Engineering & Automation Services
▪ Be accountable for the test automation projects, mentor, and provide leadership to the QA automation developers and Leads.
▪ You will design and define the automation service frameworks and associated policies, processes, and work instructions.
▪ You will create and maintain template automation deliverables to support the Automation Services. For example, Automation Test Strategy, Automation Test Reports.
▪ Where required, you will write and execute automated tests to support projects, driving confidence in software releases.
▪ Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.
▪ You will create and maintain automation business case proposals to demonstrate the benefits of automation to our clients.
▪ You will support our Test Automation assessment services, following our defined service processes, and enhance them where required.

Automation Frameworks & Products
▪ You are responsible for the design, build and enhancement to the Automation Frameworks and products, collaborating with our delivery teams to enhance and prioritise our product roadmaps.
▪ In collaboration with other QA Engineers, you will be responsible for ensuring our frameworks are well scoped, monitored and documented and is managed through the Azure DevOps and Github repositories.
▪ You will provide test automation capability through a combination of SCA, UI, API, Performance, Accessibility and Compatibility testing.
▪ You will identify and implement automation capability across a pipeline CI/CD landscape, incorporating other non-functional test capability such as performance, accessibility, security etc.

Product R&D
▪ You will be the owner of our Engineering product set, planning and managing enhancements with the team.
▪ Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation and AI
▪ You will provide insights with the latest approaches to automation, tooling and AI and be given the opportunity to improve and update the automation framework and product stack as appropriate.
▪ You will design and maintain our proof of concept/demo environment and demo applications in order to showcase our automation and product capabilities.
▪ Keep our automation and service documentation (confluence) up to date at all times.

Business Development
▪ Focus on building of key tool partnerships, building strong relationships and securing preferential rates and support arrangements
▪ Build standard sales packs and associated business case templates to emphasise the importance and benefits of automation for our clients
▪ Provide automation expertise and input into client bids, pilots and planned demos.
▪ Identify opportunities for automation services within existing and new clients.

Key Skills and Experience

Leadership
▪ 5-7 years’ experience of leading automation experts, QA engineers and developers
▪ Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into actionable automation and AI strategies.
▪ Experience of leading onshore and offshore resources.
▪ Building product roadmaps
▪ Be able to scope, plan and manage the delivery technical projects
▪ Building Automation test strategies.
▪ Build collaborative relationships with the organisation, with clients and 3rd party partners/suppliers.
▪ Provide detailed reports to senior management teams and clients.

Technical
▪ Be able to describe a range of delivery methodologies and understand the impact on automation and product designs
▪ Experience of implementing AI and evaluating AI solutions within the QA landscape
▪ Designed and built automation frameworks on a range of technology and toolsets covering Unit, API, UI level automation, including but not limited to – Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, Rest Assured, Jmeter, BrowserStack, Saucelabs (or similar).
▪ Experience of coding within React, Java and .Net environments
▪ Experience of codeless automation tools, and ERP tool extensions (e.g. ATF in ServiceNow)
▪ Knowledge of automation solutions for non-functional phases of testing such as Accessibility, Performance, and Security.
▪ 5+ years’ experience with providing automation solutions within a CI/CD environment
▪ 3-5 years’ experience of implementing automation across Cloud based pipelines and implementations such as Azure and AWS.

Personal Qualities
▪ Visionary Leadership: The ability to inspire and motivate others with a clear vision for automation and AI initiatives, as well as the foresight to anticipate future technological trends and opportunities.
▪ Innovative Thinking: A creative mindset with a passion for exploring new ideas and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with automation and AI technologies.
▪ Adaptability: The flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, emerging technologies, and evolving business needs in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
▪ Collaborative Approach: A collaborative and inclusive leadership style that fosters teamwork, open communication, and knowledge sharing among cross-functional teams.
▪ Resilience: The ability to remain resilient and composed under pressure, especially when facing challenges or setbacks.
▪ Ethical Consideration: A commitment to ethical principles, with a focus on promoting fairness, transparency, and accountability.
▪ Effective Communication: and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior executives and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications
▪ Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field preferred

MySQL/PostgreSQL | Progression Opportunity | Multi-database Structure / Clusters | Flexible Hours | Remote Work…

Ada Meher is undergoing a search on behalf of one of their key clients to find a Database professional to join their team working on the management, architecture and availability of the data stored across their multi-cluster structure. The data set is mainly on prem currently, however with a lot of the development work in the company done using AWS and containers there will be the chance to work with them as they move into cloud-based instances. The wider technology stack is LAMP based so experience working on similar platforms would be a benefit.

The company in question puts a big focus on training and progression and can offer a training budget put aside for the betterment of each and every one of their technical team. They also work hybrid remote, with the team coming into the office 3 days a week to collaborate with colleagues and working the rest of the week remotely.

To be considered:

* Demonstrable experience in a DBA role

* Expert knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL

* Experience working with Data Clusters

* Previous experience working in a LAMP stack environment would be ideal

* Any knowledge of AWS is desirable but not essential

The ideal candidate will have both the experience working with in a technical team where they are the point of escalation for database focused queries, as well as enthusiasm for the chance to develop creative solutions to business tech problems. Given the nature of the opportunity, driven by the increasing complexity of the work that the company are doing, there is plenty of autonomy and opportunity for the right person to really make their mark and establish database processes as their own.

This Database Administrator (DBA) role is attracting a high number of applicants at the moment so be sure to get in contact ASAP to avoid missing out. Please send a CV in confidence for more information

Graduate Software Developer - Fully Remote Work, train into C#, PHP, SQL, Azure

Please Note: Please do not apply if you require visa sponsorship, including Student/PSW Visas not eligible.

Join Us:
A reputable financial services provider and innovator seek a 1st-Class Computer Science graduate to join our Agile team. Work anywhere in the UK, building critical solutions with C#, PHP, jQuery, CSS, MVC & SQL Server. Full training provided.

Required skills and qualifications for the Graduate Software Developer role:

• Passion for OOP and can demonstrate strong understanding in development (C#, Java, PHP, C++ etc.)
• Strong Database query skills (SQL Server/MySQL or similar)
• Cloud Computing - Azure and/ or AWS familiarity a plus (Not essential)
• Strong communication and enjoys working both collaboratively and remotely
• MUST HAVE A First-Class Computer Science Degree from a top university.

We Offer You:

• £25k start + raises post-probation
• Bonus scheme
• First class training program
• Fully remote work anywhere in the UK
• 20% time for training & certifications
• Tech meetups, health plan, all equipment

Please apply now for more information on the position: Graduate Software Developer - Fully Remote Work, train into C#, PHP, SQL.

Job Title: IS Systems Administrator
Location: Remote with travel to Hull when required
Salary: Up to £38,000 plus 5% bonus

Build resilient systems. Enable people. Drive continuous improvement.
Consortium Professional Recruitment are pleased to be working with a well established and forward thinking organisation to recruit an IS Systems Administrator. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative IT function where your technical expertise will directly support operational performance and business continuity.

Working remotely with travel to Hull when required, you will play a vital role in maintaining and enhancing core infrastructure. This IS Systems Administrator position offers hands on responsibility, exposure to a broad technology stack and the opportunity to contribute to ongoing system and service improvements.

The Opportunity:
As an IS Systems Administrator you will play a key role in:

• Acting as an escalation point for infrastructure related issues, supporting the service desk and resolving more complex technical challenges
• Managing day to day systems administration, maintenance, troubleshooting and break fix support across core infrastructure
• Monitoring system performance, completing daily, weekly and monthly checks and ensuring compliance with internal standards and industry best practice
• Supporting patching, vulnerability management, backups and restores to protect business critical systems
• Collaborating with colleagues to plan and implement improvements to systems, services and processes
• Your work will directly contribute to a secure, stable and high performing IT environment that enables teams across the business to operate effectively.

About You:
We are looking for someone who can bring:

• Proven experience in a similar IS Systems Administrator or infrastructure support role
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft 365 including SharePoint and OneDrive
• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals, security principles, anti virus management, patching and backup processes
• Experience working with support desk and ticketing systems, with the confidence to act as a technical escalation point
• A proactive and solutions focused approach, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Clear communication skills, excellent timekeeping and a flexible mindset when responding to change
• Desirable experience includes PowerShell or other Microsoft scripting technologies, SQL knowledge, Citrix or Terminal Services and exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.

The Benefits and Package:
In return, you will enjoy:

• Salary up to £38,000 plus 5% bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution, plus 4x death in service
• Remote working with travel to Hull when required
• A supportive and inclusive culture that values development, collaboration and continuous improvement

How to Apply:
This exciting IS Systems Administrator opportunity is being managed by Consortium Professional Recruitment, a trusted recruitment partner. If you are ready to take the next step in your career and want to make a meaningful impact as an IS Systems Administrator, we would love to hear from you. Please apply with your CV attached.

Consortium Professional Recruitment Ltd are a professional level recruitment consultancy specialising in the delivery of high relevance recruitment services on behalf of our clients across the UK. We regularly receive large responses to our advertising which can make providing individual feedback to every applicant challenging. If you haven t received a reply from us within 14 days of your application, we regret to say your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. We have a policy of retaining your details for future vacancies unless you request otherwise.

Senior Java Engineer

Modern Stack | TDD & CI/CD | Complex Systems

Remote First (office visit once a month) - you must live within 1hr 30 of South Manchester

£60,000 - £70,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

**my client is not able to provide sponsorship

We’re working with a long-established tech company who are continuing to modernise a complex platform within a highly regulated domain. They’ve built a strong engineering culture around Agile and XP practices, and they’re now looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join one of their Scrum teams.

This is a role for someone who is genuinely hands-on, enjoys solving tricky problems, and cares about building software the right way - clean code, testing, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The Opportunity

You’ll join a cross-functional team working on large-scale systems that have real-world impact. Engineering standards are taken seriously here, but it’s not dogmatic - it’s practical, delivery-focused, and built around doing things sustainably.

The Senior role is almost entirely hands-on, but they’re looking for someone with the experience and maturity to:

**mentor other engineers

**lead by example

**contribute to good engineering practices

**help the team deliver reliably

Tech Stack & Practices

The core platform is Java-based, supported by a modern mix of tooling:

**Java, Spring Boot

**TDD / automated testing

**CI/CD and modern delivery pipelines

**AWS (including serverless approaches in places)

**Docker, Kubernetes

**Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.)

You don’t need to tick every box - strong Java + good engineering habits are the priority. Exposure to AWS and DevOps tooling is a nice bonus.

What They’re Looking For

**Strong experience building backend systems with Java & Spring Boot

**Comfortable working with TDD and modern engineering practices

**Experience delivering production software in Agile teams

**Someone who enjoys mentoring and helping others grow

**Collaborative mindset - pairing, code reviews, shared ownership

**Bonus points for AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.

What’s In It For You?

**Remote-first working with minimal office travel

**Strong salary, bonus and excellent benefits

**A genuinely good engineering culture (not just “Agile” on paper)

**Meaningful work, complex systems, and long-term platform thinking

**Plenty of room to learn and grow

Interested?

Apply now or get in touch for more info - even if you don’t have a CV ready, we’re happy to chat.

Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy

Senior Software Developer - Golang | £70,000 + £3k on call | Fully Remote Overview: An innovative and fast-growing healthcare technology organisation is seeking a Senior Software Developer to play a key role in building and maintaining high-performance backend services that power clinical applications. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimise scalable, secure, cloud-based systems using Go (Golang), PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Docker. You will contribute to architecture discussions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality features. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineer to work in a collaborative, fast-moving environment while shaping the technical direction of critical healthcare systems. Role and Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Go (Golang) Build and manage messaging patterns and asynchronous workflows with Redis and RabbitMQ Develop efficient, scalable database schemas and queries in PostgreSQL Build clean, well-documented RESTful APIs and service integrations Contribute to containerised environments using Docker and maintain cloud-native services on AWS Participate in architecture discussions, CI/CD pipelines, and quality assurance processes Mentor peers, share knowledge, and promote best practices in backend developmentSkills and Experience: 5+ years’ experience in backend development roles Strong proficiency in Golang, including concurrency models and thread-safe coding Proven experience with Redis (caching & Pub/Sub) and RabbitMQ (messaging) Strong experience with PostgreSQL and libraries such as sqlx and gorm Solid understanding of Docker and containerised development Experience building RESTful APIs and integrating services Desirable: AWS services (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS), microservices architecture, CI/CD tooling, event-driven systemsPackage: £70,000 + £3K on call bonus Fully Remote role

• Benefits PackageSenior Software Developer - Golang | £70,000 + £3k on call | Fully Remote

Keystone Recruitment Partners are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Engineer to lead our client’s migration from AWS WAF to Cloudflare and to design, deploy, and manage our edge security and Zero Trust environment. This role will take ownership of Cloudflare architecture, security posture, and integration with our AWS infrastructure. This is a fully remote and outside IR35 contract with an initial 3 month engagement. Key Responsibilities * Drive the full migration from AWS WAF to Cloudflare WAF, including rule translation, optimisation, testing, and rollout. * Configure and maintain Cloudflare WAF policies, covering managed rules, custom rules, bot mitigation, and rate‑limiting. * Deploy and manage Cloudflare Zero Trust and Warp, enabling secure, identity‑based remote access for users and services. * Set up and optimise Cloudflare DNS, load balancing, and traffic steering to ensure resilient, high‑performance routing. * Integrate Cloudflare services with AWS environments, including ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, and cloud‑native workloads. * Implement and enforce edge security controls, including DDoS protection, TLS configuration, and continuous monitoring. * Diagnose and resolve traffic, performance, and edge‑security issues across Cloudflare and AWS. * Support Infrastructure‑as‑Code automation, ideally using Terraform, for consistent and scalable deployments. Required Experience * Extensive hands‑on experience with Cloudflare WAF, Zero Trust, and Warp, ideally in enterprise or high‑traffic environments. * Demonstrated experience migrating from AWS WAF to Cloudflare, with strong understanding of rule behaviour and tuning. * Deep technical knowledge of DNS, TLS, routing, reverse proxies, and CDN architectures. * Strong AWS background, especially with ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, and security‑related services. * Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools is preferred. * Excellent troubleshooting skills across networking, performance, and security layers. Contact us as interviews are happening immediately

Lead Software Developer - Full Stack | £72,000 + £3K on call | Remote Overview: An innovative and fast-growing healthcare technology organisation is seeking a Lead Software Developer to drive the evolution of its mission-critical clinical software platforms. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in enhancing complex clinical systems, contributing to architectural improvements, and optimising secure, cloud-based platforms that support primary care services nationwide. You will adopt modern technologies and best practices to deliver scalable, high-performing features, while mentoring a team and helping drive innovation across the platform. Role and Responsibilities: Lead the design, development, and optimisation of high-performance, cloud-based software solutions Partner with Technical Design Authority to shape system architecture, APIs, and data models Ensure secure, scalable integration with databases, third-party APIs, and messaging services Drive performance optimisation, reliability, and robust data integrity standards Mentor developers, promote Agile best practice, and elevate engineering standards Participate in on-call rota and act as escalation point for critical incidentsSkills and Experience: 5+ years’ software development experience with 2+ years in a senior or leadership role Solid AWS experience (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) and cloud-native architecture Proficient in SQL (MSSQL & PostgreSQL) and API integrations Experience with CI/CD, Git, Jira, and modern DevOps practices Strong understanding of secure coding principles (OWASP) and performance optimisation Desirable: OAuth/OpenID, CloudFormation, React or Vue.js, healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, SNOMED, DM&D)Package: £72,000 + £3K on call Great benefits package Fully remoteLead Software Developer - Full Stack | £72,000 + £3K on call | Remote

System Administrator, Data Security Fabric

Inside IR35 Fully Remote

We are recruiting a DSF Systems Administrator to support our client in delivering a critical programme, due for completion in 2026. The programme will establish a new AWS-hosted Thales Data Security Fabric (DSF) production platform and securely onboard a number of on-premise PostgreSQL databases to support controls.

The new environment will include a dedicated DSF production instance, AWS IaaS-hosted gateway servers and a data warehouse, aligned to existing architectural standards (patching, testing, documentation). Once built, the team will manage the secure onboarding of Postgres databases, ensuring DBA security audit logs (via PGAudit) are ingested, processed and exported for downstream control reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and operate the DSF platform (gateways and data warehouse) within AWS.
• Support the build and stabilisation of new DSF production infrastructure.
• Securely onboard on-prem PostgreSQL databases within a fixed regulatory timeframe.
• Validate data ingestion, transformation and export processes to AWS S3.
• Respond to ad-hoc data sampling and audit queries.

This role requires strong experience in AWS IaaS environments, PostgreSQL administration, and exposure to database activity monitoring or ETL/security platforms. Experience with Thales DSF or similar technologies is highly desirable.

More details available on successful application.

12-month Contract
Remote Working
400 - 650, Inside IR35

ECS Resource Group is currently working with a leading technology organisation to assist with the search for a Cloud Governance Analyst. This role plays a pivotal part in overseeing cloud governance while ensuring cost efficiency and financial accountability across cloud platforms.

As a Cloud Governance Analyst, you will be responsible for:

• Working with key stakeholders to take charge of the cloud governance strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational goals, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities within the cloud environment and supporting mitigation measures.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and internal teams to establish SLAs and KPIs that strengthen governance, security posture, and operational efficiency of cloud environments.
• Partnering with FinOps to implement effective cost controls, support cloud cost optimisation initiatives, and enable visibility of cloud spending across teams.
• Ensuring strict adherence to established cloud standards, principles, and best practices.
• Establishing cloud training programs to ensure technologies are being used efficiently and cost-effectively.

Essential Requirements:

• Strong understanding of cloud computing models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment types (public, private, hybrid).
• Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals across Azure and AWS.
• Expertise in cloud governance, including risk assessment, mitigation, auditing, and compliance.
• Experience with cloud governance frameworks, policies, and standards for resource management.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, cost tracking, and reporting tools.
• Understanding of FinOps principles and experience supporting cloud cost optimisation, budgeting, and efficiency initiatives.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, or CCSP certification (highly desirable).

ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Role: Delivery Lead - SC Clearance neededType: Contract (6 Months)
Location: UK Wide (Fully Remote)
Working Model: Fully Remote

Contract Payrate: 47 - 57/hr on PAYE
65 - 75/hr on INSIDE IR35 Umbrella

Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required
Dual nationals will not be considered.

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Delivery Lead to drive complex cloud and digital transformation initiatives within the Public Sector. You will bridge the gap between high-level strategy and agile execution, leading multidisciplinary teams (DevOps, Cloud Engineers, Analysts) to deliver secure, scalable, and citizen-focused solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Programme Leadership: Shape delivery strategy and roadmaps for cloud-native/hybrid infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Agile Governance: Manage sprint cycles, backlog prioritization, and delivery metrics (DORA) using Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Technical Oversight: Review Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation workflows to ensure scalability and resilience.
• Stakeholder Management: Navigate complex client contracts, manage third-party vendors, and lead service recovery for failed SLAs.
• Compliance: Ensure all delivery aligns with GDS, NCSC, and ITIL standards.

Requirements:

• Proven Lead: Extensive experience in service delivery within digital or legacy environments.
• Public Sector Savvy: Deep understanding of Government Service Standards and secure delivery practices.
• Commercial Acumen: Ability to manage internal charging mechanisms and interpret complex contracts.
• Communication: Expert at presenting technical risks to non-technical senior leadership.

This is an urgent vacancy with a deadline where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it praveen. Com

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Cyber Security Architect

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 Months

Department: Cyber Security

Reporting To: Head of Security Architecture

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Cyber Security Solutions Architect with strong AI skills and knowledge, to provide architectural solution design and assurance across technology, cloud, data, and AI-enabled initiatives. The role focuses on designing secure, scalable, and compliant solutions, enabling innovation while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, regulatory requirements, and organisational risk appetite.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and assure end-to-end solution architectures, including cloud platforms, enterprise systems, data pipelines, and AI/ML solutions.
• Embed secure-by-design and responsible AI principles, covering data protection, model governance, and risk management.
• Identify and mitigate architectural, security, and AI-related risks using a risk-based, pragmatic approach.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, data teams, and stakeholders to deliver secure and resilient solutions.
• Contribute to architecture governance, design authorities, and continuous improvement of security and AI assurance practices.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect or Security Architect in complex or regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of security and enterprise architecture principles (e.g. zero trust, defence in depth).
• Experience with AI-enabled solutions, data platforms, and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with TOGAF, NIST, ISO 27001, OWASP Top 10 and emerging AI governance frameworks.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical, security, and AI risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Key Competencies

• Analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Risk-based decision-making
• Stakeholder engagement
• Adaptability and pragmatism
• Highly driven, energetic and self-motivated
• Team player with the ability to proactively work to group-aligned targets and objectives.

If you believe you have the experience required, please apply with your CV now for instant consideration!

TO APPLY - PLEASE APPLY 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.

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We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Job Title: Remote Support Engineer

Job Location: Nottingham/Home

Salary £55000 plus £6000 car allowance

Our client is an Independent Security Systems Integrator, with expertise built over four decades delivering security solutions for high-security, public space, transport, and infrastructure projects throughout the UK and Ireland.

About The Role:

Provide remote monitoring, preventative maintenance, fault rectification and first line technical support on security systems, networks and cloud hoisted platforms (CCTV, ACS, VMS, Azure, AWS, TCP/IP, VLANS etc) as managed through our Security Service and OnVehicle propositions, ensuring maximum system uptime, early health warnings and rapid fault resolution. The role will also provide technical support and assistance to our field-based engineers and helpdesk team. Whilst this a remote role, occasional visits to customer security systems may be required.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Monitor health and availability of security systems, networks and cloud services in line with any contract requirements, proactively identifying faults via system alerts, dashboards and analytics and taking appropriate actions.
• Remotely investigate system faults, resolving where possible or liaising and supporting the field-based engineers where onsite intervention is needed.
• Undertake remote planned preventative maintenance.
• Log, prioritise and manage incidents in line with contract SLAs (i.e. S1 S4)
• Manage users, permissions, devices and data flows.
• Track fault ownership through to full resolution.
• Review system health and assets, checking software and firmware versions are suitable, products are supported and compliant, and security firewalls and networks are resilient.
• Support the On-Vehicle and Security installation teams with remote configurations, system commissioning and technical product support.

Skills & Personal Qualities

• Technically proficient on enterprise level security systems, security networks (LANs, WANS, VLANs) and cloud storage systems.
• Experience with supporting CCTV, ACS and VMS.
• Strong understanding of IP networking (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, bandwidth, firewalls) • Working knowledge of cloud-hosted platforms (Azure, AWS or equivalent)
• Ability to diagnose faults remotely, using logs, alerts and system data.
• Familiarity with Windows and other OS environments
• Able to diagnose complex problems remotely

Qualifications & Experience

• Security engineering or IT related qualification preferable.
• A minimum of five years experience in a similar role.
• Proven experience of working on enterprise level security systems.
• Knowledge of IT networks and cloud platforms preferred.

Forward Assist Recruitment is operating as an employment agency. Forward Assist Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

+6 months +

+Fully remote working

• 70 - 79 ph Inside IR35

+SC cleared role - must hold current active clearance

+Sole British - due to nature of the project

Skills:

+SC clearance

+Cloud Delivery leader

+DevOps

+Azure / AWS

+Stakeholder engagment

We are seeking an experienced delivery leader responsible for managing complex cloud and digital initiatives that support public sector transformation. Skilled in overseeing agile delivery across infrastructure, software, and service platforms with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement, budget management, and governance. Brings deep understanding of cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) and modern delivery models to ensure secure, scalable, and citizen-focused solutions. Expert in driving cross-functional collaboration, aligning IT strategies with policy outcomes, and promoting continuous improvement across programmes.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Leadership & Strategy

• Shape and oversee delivery strategy for cloud and DevOps programmes aligned to public sector transformation goals
• Develop delivery roadmaps and prioritise initiatives based on organisational impact and stakeholder needs
• Drive cross-departmental alignment to ensure consistent delivery frameworks and shared objectives

Team & People Management

• Lead multidisciplinary agile teams including cloud engineers, DevOps specialists, analysts, and testers
• Mentor, coach, and support performance development to build a high-performing delivery culture
• Ensure effective resource planning to support sprint velocity and long-term delivery capacity

Cloud Architecture & Engineering Oversight

• Oversee delivery of cloud-native architectures, container platforms, and hybrid infrastructure solutions
• Guide adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation practices
• Collaborate on designs for scalability, resilience, and high availability across platforms

Delivery Operations & Agile Governance

• Manage sprint planning, backlog prioritisation, and iterative delivery using agile methodologies
• Track and report delivery metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate
• Maintain delivery cadence and artefacts using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement

• Build strong relationships with internal teams, government departments, citizens, and suppliers
• Manage third-party delivery performance and SLA adherence
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive transparency and consensus

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Promote continuous improvement, learning, and feedback across delivery teams
• Evaluate emerging DevOps tools, cloud patterns, and delivery models
• Lead retrospectives and encourage knowledge sharing across programmes

Experience Required

The Delivery Lead will be a well-rounded service delivery professional with experience across applications, infrastructure, or digital services, and will demonstrate:

• Proven service delivery experience in legacy and/or digital environments
• Detailed working knowledge of the Industrialised Delivery Model
• Ability to interpret and work effectively with client contracts
• Experience producing mitigations for failed SLAs where required
• Strong documentation skills for client-facing materials and governance
• Confident communication and presentation skills with senior management and clients
• Practical working knowledge of ITIL
• Effective negotiation and stakeholder management capabilities

If you’d like to discuss this Cloud Delivery Lead in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch.

+6 months +

+Fully remote working

+SC cleared - must hold current active clearance

+Sole British nationals only - due to nature of the project

Skills:

+AWS

+DevOps Engineer

+Kubernetes

+Public Sector experience

We’re looking for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to design, build, and optimise secure, scalable cloud environments in a fully remote role.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• Build and manage containerised environments with Docker and Kubernetes
• Architect and optimise AWS services across compute, networking, storage, and security
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• Embed DevSecOps practices using tools such as SonarQube, Snyk, and OWASP
• Implement monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

Experience Required

• 5-10+ years in DevOps / Cloud Engineering
• Strong AWS architecture and security expertise
• Proven IaC and CI/CD delivery experience
• Solid Docker and Kubernetes knowledge
• Ability to influence stakeholders and mentor teams

Fully remote, high-impact role within a forward-thinking cloud engineering team.

If you’d like to discuss this AWS DevOps Engineer in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch.

Senior Java Engineer

Modern Stack | TDD & CI/CD | Complex Systems

Remote First (office visit once a month) - you must live within 1hr 30 of South Manchester

£60,000 - £70,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

*my client is not able to provide sponsorship

We’re working with a long-established tech company who are continuing to modernise a complex platform within a highly regulated domain. They’ve built a strong engineering culture around Agile and XP practices, and they’re now looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join one of their Scrum teams.

This is a role for someone who is genuinely hands-on, enjoys solving tricky problems, and cares about building software the right way - clean code, testing, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The Opportunity

You’ll join a cross-functional team working on large-scale systems that have real-world impact. Engineering standards are taken seriously here, but it’s not dogmatic - it’s practical, delivery-focused, and built around doing things sustainably.

The Senior role is almost entirely hands-on, but they’re looking for someone with the experience and maturity to:

*mentor other engineers

*lead by example

*contribute to good engineering practices

*help the team deliver reliably

Tech Stack & Practices

The core platform is Java-based, supported by a modern mix of tooling:

*Java, Spring Boot

*TDD/automated testing

*CI/CD and modern delivery pipelines

*AWS (including serverless approaches in places)

*Docker, Kubernetes

*Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.)

You don’t need to tick every box - strong Java + good engineering habits are the priority. Exposure to AWS and DevOps tooling is a nice bonus.

What They’re Looking For

*Strong experience building Back End systems with Java & Spring Boot

*Comfortable working with TDD and modern engineering practices

*Experience delivering production software in Agile teams

*Someone who enjoys mentoring and helping others grow

*Collaborative mindset - pairing, code reviews, shared ownership

*Bonus points for AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.

What’s In It For You?

*Remote-first working with minimal office travel

*Strong salary, bonus and excellent benefits

*A genuinely good engineering culture (not just “Agile” on paper)

*Meaningful work, complex systems, and long-term platform thinking

*Plenty of room to learn and grow

Interested?

Apply now or get in touch for more info - even if you don’t have a CV ready, we’re happy to chat.

Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Senior Java Engineer

Modern Stack | TDD & CI/CD | Complex Systems

Remote First (office visit once a month) - you must live within 1hr 30 of South Manchester

£60,000 - £70,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

**my client is not able to provide sponsorship

We’re working with a long-established tech company who are continuing to modernise a complex platform within a highly regulated domain. They’ve built a strong engineering culture around Agile and XP practices, and they’re now looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join one of their Scrum teams.

This is a role for someone who is genuinely hands-on, enjoys solving tricky problems, and cares about building software the right way - clean code, testing, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The Opportunity

You’ll join a cross-functional team working on large-scale systems that have real-world impact. Engineering standards are taken seriously here, but it’s not dogmatic - it’s practical, delivery-focused, and built around doing things sustainably.

The Senior role is almost entirely hands-on, but they’re looking for someone with the experience and maturity to:

**mentor other engineers

**lead by example

**contribute to good engineering practices

**help the team deliver reliably

Tech Stack & Practices

The core platform is Java-based, supported by a modern mix of tooling:

**Java, Spring Boot

**TDD / automated testing

**CI/CD and modern delivery pipelines

**AWS (including serverless approaches in places)

**Docker, Kubernetes

**Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.)

You don’t need to tick every box - strong Java + good engineering habits are the priority. Exposure to AWS and DevOps tooling is a nice bonus.

What They’re Looking For

**Strong experience building backend systems with Java & Spring Boot

**Comfortable working with TDD and modern engineering practices

**Experience delivering production software in Agile teams

**Someone who enjoys mentoring and helping others grow

**Collaborative mindset - pairing, code reviews, shared ownership

**Bonus points for AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.

What’s In It For You?

**Remote-first working with minimal office travel

**Strong salary, bonus and excellent benefits

**A genuinely good engineering culture (not just “Agile” on paper)

**Meaningful work, complex systems, and long-term platform thinking

**Plenty of room to learn and grow

Interested?

Apply now or get in touch for more info - even if you don’t have a CV ready, we’re happy to chat.

Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

3 months
Remote
Inside IR35 - Umbrella only

Overview
The client requires strong Python Developers with deep, hands-on AWS experience.
This is an application-focused role - DevOps/operations-heavy profiles are not suitable for this engagement.

Most Important

• Strong Python Developer (5+ years hands-on development experience)
• Strong AWS experience (hands-on, application-focused)

Essential Technical Requirements
Python Development

• 5+ years of hands-on development experience (not scripting/automation roles)
• Strong knowledge of boto3 API
• Experience building RESTful applications
• Strong understanding of testing frameworks, unit testing, and regression testing methodologies

AWS Expertise

• Deep understanding of AWS networking and IAM
• Strong knowledge of IAM concepts (roles, users, resource policies, SCPs)
• Experience hosting applications within AWS
• Recent hands-on experience developing AWS Lambda (serverless)
• Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation (preferred) or Terraform
• Strong understanding of AWS security best practices

Additional Technical Skills

• Flask API development
• Python-based API development within AWS environments

It’s essential that you bring strong, hands?on Python development and AWS application experience. If this aligns with your background, we’d love to hear from you!

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote, UK

Salary: Circa £47,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week to cover core business hours (9-5, Mon-Fri)

Working for Affinity:

• We understand the importance of flexibility, wellness, performance and satisfaction - indeed it is part of our culture
• We offer opportunities to take unpaid leave and will give you one extra day’s holiday for every year you’ve worked with us, for up to 8 years
• We know working from home introduces opportunities for you to do more domestic chores during the day, e.g. picking up the children from school, taking pets to the vet, etc. We don’t mind this at all, as long as we are aware of what you are doing and the work gets done!

About the Role:

We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who is always looking for opportunities to improve the services we provide for clients, in areas such as efficiency, cost effectiveness, security and reliability.

You’ll be pivotal in knowledge sharing internally within the business, assisting others in their assigned projects and, where necessary, supporting more junior members of Affinity to help them learn and improve.

The right DevOps engineer will have the opportunity to help grow and shape this emerging function within the team, creating a long-term career path for themselves within Affinity, with an opportunity to progress upwards.

What will your typical day look like?

• You will be working on projects, such as the Cabinet Office WordPress support contract, to keep our clients’ systems up-to-date, available, resilient, secure, performing well and cost effective.
• Working to improve the efficiency of our infrastructure related processes
• At times you’ll need to work together with clients’ own internal teams and with any external infrastructure teams that Affinity may partner with.
• Putting together infrastructure design documents at the start of projects, with a view to getting these signed off by the client and then acting as the basis for infrastructure build.
• Building infrastructure on new projects through the use of Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc. This will also include continuous integration processes, server provisioning, etc.
• Imparting knowledge and experience to other Affinity team members, both verbally and also captured in tools such as Jira Confluence, where we would like to build up a repository of DevOps how-tos, best practices, etc.
• Opportunity to work as a team lead where other Affinity team members are involved in DevOps.
• Providing AWS and Azure thought leadership and mentoring in both advisory and delivery contexts.
• Supporting out-of-hours rotas to provide support coverage for contracts in place with Affinity.

About you:

General requirements:

• Willingness to provide on-call rota coverage of emergency support (24/7/365)

• Ability to work flexible hours from time to time, for specific projects or tasks

• UK based and resident in UK for last 3 years (given some client-driven security clearance requirements)

• The role is fully remote, though visits to clients and to our office in Cornwall will occasionally be required

Technical must-haves:

• Commercial experience of AWS, including services such as Amazon VPC, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS/EKS, Amazon EFS, AWS IAM, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Cost Explorer, etc.

• Commercial experience of Azure, including services such as Azure Networking, Azure Cache (Redis and Memcached), App Services (running WordPress and .NET applications), Front Doors (CDN), API Services, storage services (blob storage, file storage, etc.), Azure Database services, Azure Cost Management, etc.

• Terraform and/or CloudFormation scripting

• Linux, Apache/Nginx

• Continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) experience including GitHub Actions

• Familiarity with the AWS/Azure Well-Architected Framework and NCSC Cloud Security Principles

• Security experience, including the resolution of issues found during penetration testing

• Docker experience

Technical nice-to-haves:

• System/server admin experience

• Drupal, WordPress or Magento experience

• PHP and Composer

• Microsoft technologies, including .NET, Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, MSSQL, etc.

• AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer - Professional, speciality certifications, e.g., Database, Security, etc.)

• Microsoft certifications, including Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, etc.

• Load testing experience, including jMeter, Gatling, K6, etc.

• Other HashiCorp tools, e.g., Packer, Vault, Vagrant, Consul, etc.

• Provisioning tools, e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.

• AWS Control Tower and/or Landing Zone

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates

Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Software Developer, Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS Systems Developer, Azure Software Development may also be considered for this role.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Senior Full Stack Developer (with front-end focus), you’ll be responsible for:

• Building solutions to problems (especially solutions with a heavy front-end focus)
• Design of the solution (in conjunction with Product Managers and/or other colleagues)
• Helping colleagues facing issues with front-end development

Day-to-day life on the Product Development team looks like:

• Most of your time will be spent designing and building solutions.
• For our tech stack we use:
  • Django/Django REST Framework/Postgres for backend,
  • Angular for our web application,
  • Flutter for our mobile application (replacing our current Ionic/Angular app later this year),
  • and for infrastructure we use AWS ECS/ECR, Aurora and Lambda.
• For design, it’s quick brainstorming, a bit of analysis, sketching on paper or Figma, and/or jotting down a short design doc in Google Docs
• A chunk of time is spent on understanding issues, users and our platform. This includes talking to ops colleagues. We take turns answering ops support requests

It’s fast paced. We’re light on overhead and don’t outsource quality to a QA team. Quality, maintainability and security start at the design stage and are everyone’s responsibility.

We run 2-week sprints. Each day starts with a daily 15-minute standup and then it varies a lot from there. The issues vary from sprint-to-sprint. It’s typically very user focused, but we do make time each quarter to do unsexy important stuff (refactor, pay down technical debt, database upgrades, etc).

It’s not a solo effort. While we maximise the time you must put your head down and get on with cracking a problem, we grab each other for help every day. And we do peer review of design and code, while building and deploying to production regularly.

If you like having a holistic view of the product (from idea to release to growth), rather than being highly specialised in one niche, you’ll probably enjoy this role.

What we’re looking for:

• General characteristics
  • You like solving real problems. When you make something, you make it to solve someone’s issue. You understand the issue and the person facing it. You put in a bit of extra effort to make it a good experience for the user
  • Uncertainty is a fun problem to figure out, rather than an annoying headache. When you don’t know the answer, you try something. You experiment. You dig.
  • You’re a clear concise communicator. When writing or speaking, you know which details to prioritise
  • KISS is important to you. You have an instinct for when a solution is too complicated for the problem
  • You know how to learn and skill up. When faced with a novel skill area, you can self- critique your level and push yourself to improve
  • You reside in the UK and don’t need visa sponsorship
  • If you don’t live near Oxford, you are able to travel and work in our office in Oxford for a few days each quarter
• Specific characteristics for this role
  • Taken multiple features from idea to release to growth
  • Having spent meaningful time as part of different teams (we’d prefer at least 6 years as a developer)
  • Deep front-end experience, including responsive design, for consumer facing businesses
  • Design sense for UX/UI. Not just writing code. May have done wireframes before.
  • Can look at an interface and tell if it is terrible or not
  • Some experience working on backend (e.g. building APIs, database design, etc)
  • Some experience with CI/CD or deployments in general
  • Ideally, some experience in an agency (for consumer facing apps) and/or early-stage consumer facing startup
  • Bonus points if you have experience of mobile development, whether native or through a cross-platform framework like Flutter/React Native/Ionic