Senior Frontend Developer

Location Hybrid - Moorgate London

Salary Base £70-90k plus equity

Our client is a deep tech, driven by the desire to equip every organisation with access to clear, transparent and actionable information about who they are engaging with. They are automating the innate process of human research using AI and NLP to help protect against fraud and reputational damage. You will join a team of around 17 across engineering and product. With £ 3million in funding already received and a Seed round closing as we speak of a further £ 3 million, in addition to revenue generating customers, this is a SaaS business now looking to scale and to drive the product roadmap.

This is now your opportunity to play a crucial role in the growth and success of an ambitious, machine learning scale-up working on a unique product.

The role:

As a Lead Front End Engineer you will help build the next generation of search. With mentoring responsibility for a small team of designers and developers, you will lead and empower your team to deliver new features to enhance the platform. The hiring roadmap over the next 12 months could see the frontend team grow to 4-6 specific frontend developers and you will play a key role in hiring and creating the team culture.

• Manage and maintain the core technologies that power the application's front end and constantly look to improve and evolve the day to day operations of the team
• The front end is built using React and relies on a range of technologies and tooling, such as CSS-in-JS, Jest, Webpack, automated screenshot testing and storybook

What are we looking for?

In addition to a passion for creating exceptional user experiences, we are also looking for experience with the following:

• HTML, CSS and vanilla Javascript
• React including hooks
• State management libraries
• Automated interaction testing
• Interaction with RESTful APIs
• A desire to lead
• Git or other source control tools
• Strong communication skills
• Experience using CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using storybook to isolate components
• Knowledge of and a real interest in design systems
• Experience working with web sockets
• Automated visual tests, such as Cypress

What's in it for you?

Work in a supportive and collaborative environment. The team gets together once a month for socials and they have recently signed up office space in Moorgate, making the space available for a hybrid working model.

• Top of the range kit
• Flexible working hours
• £1k per year professional development budget 
• Shares/equity in the business - own a stake in what you are building
• Generous bonus plan
• Unlimited holiday
• High-spec Macbook
• Full home office support
• Life insurance
• Private healthcare
• Pension

Product Designer

Location: Hybrid / London

Salary: £65k plus equity

Do you have a passion, energy and enthusiasm for a highly rewarding career in the health & wellbeing industry? Do you want to work for an organisation where you can help and improve the lives of millions of individuals? Do you want to build your career in a fast-paced, social-impact environment where you can really make a difference for others? If you are hard-working, resilient, great at coming up with new ideas and have an entrepreneurial mindset, we want to hear from you! 

We’re looking for an exceptional Product Lead to join our client at a critical time of growth. You will lead the development of  products, ensuring you achieve product market fit and have an exceptional product suite that users and customers love. You will love designing beautiful apps, conducting research, analysing data and identifying key trends to deliver clear and concise results that guide the direction of the product, as well have a commercial eye for identifying new revenue streams. As you scale, you will have the opportunity to progress to Head of Product and build your dream product team. 

An award-winning organisation at the forefront of supporting employees in looking after their mental health needs. It's not just a mental health platform, they are a workplace wellness movement that is changing the way people view mental health at work so that everyone can be a better version of themselves and live a more productive personal and work life. We are looking for someone to help them to achieve their mission of using innovative, cutting edge concepts to put mental health support into the palm of every employee's hands globally. They have massive growth ambitions and need your help! 

About you

We are looking for an exceptional Product Lead who has an entrepreneurial mindset and wants to change the way mental health care is provided in the workplace. You will be passionate about tech and innovation - striving to become the Airbnb of Mental Health care and are shooting for the stars. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow and progress quickly in their role as they scale.

We are looking for someone extremely special to join the team who is determined to take the business to the next level. You will need both time and commitment, and the energy and enthusiasm to be hands-on in leading the drive for developing the best product in the market. You will be driven by doing what it takes and going the extra mile to get the job done. We are looking for someone who is laser-focused on design and user research to support the journey to product market fit. 

You will play a vital role understanding users wants and needs and communicating this back to the team. You will be responsible for owning and delivering the product roadmap and be the voice between the business and tech teams.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Founder to develop and build the product strategy as they gear up for Series A, ensuring that you are on track to meet both customer acquisition targets, user engagement KPIs and commercial goals for the business. 
• Own all aspects of the product roadmap, ensuing timely delivery of new features and functionality. 
• Work closely with the Founder and Tech team to design and develop a world-class leading VR and Mobile App based products that get featured as Meta and Apple’s ‘Apps of the Day’. 
• Work cross-functionally with Tech, Sales and Clinical teams, ensuring all teams are focused on achieving the north star metric, and prioritising the right initiatives, tests and iterations.
• Constantly build and iterate on experiments to drive  business metrics enabling you to take quicker action on refining and expanding the product set, improving customer acquisition strategies to build the funnel and increase customer referrals. 
• Report on the learnings and RoI of campaigns across all growth channels, turning complex data and learnings into something digestible for all, with clear actionable insights.
• Create dashboards and tooling that allow for testing and reporting to drive faster action, improved decision making and increased growth towards the mission of putting mental health support into the palm of every employees’ hand. 

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Product Development, Design or a similar field 
• 3+ years leading and working in a Product team, ideally in a product design role in a start-up SaaS and/or wellbeing company 
• Experience of working in a gaming environment, or specifically with virtual and augmented reality 
• Able to evidence successfully managing B2B product roadmaps for fast-paced start-up/scale-up tech companies, which resulted in dramatic growth 
• Able to evidence working on the full lifecycle of product development from prototyping and wireframes to product launch 
• Experience of conducting user research, presenting findings back to c-suite and actioning outcomes that dramatically impact the product and move the needle forward 
• Deep experience of best in class mobile app, VR and web design principles with an eye for staying ahead of future design trends 
• Able to demonstrate successful product launch strategies and campaigns that get people talking and excited
• Entrepreneurial in your approach and able to think outside of the box to come up with innovative, creative new ideas 
• Ability to write code and use Wordpress, or other microsite services, to test concepts  
• Must be confident using graphic design tools such as Adobe Suite, Canva, Indesign and Photoshop and product tools such as Miro, Product Board, UXCam and Mixpanel
• Experience of creating and editing videos and audio clips
• Customer-first mindset: you put yourself in their shoes for the journey experience 
• Strong data and analytical skills, confident making decisions in a fast-paced, high pressured environment
• Self-starter who gets things done without perfect resources and works with a sense of urgency 
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal communication skills
• A passion for Wellness & Mental Health and improving the lives of millions of people globally 

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience 
• Company share options programme with a healthy package available 
• Hybrid working
• Personal development allowance 
• 25 days annual leave
• Your birthday off 
• Annual volunteering day 
• Regular team events and socials
• Regular wellbeing events 
• Annual team retreat

Customer and Data Support Executive

Bath/Bristol - hybrid

Salary circa £35-40k depending upon experience

We are pleased to be working with a UK Social Enterprise and B Corp company on a mission to streamline and simplify grant research and application management.

The Founder is a recognised leader in the grant industry and wanted to create a platform that makes it easier and more efficient for charities to access grants (it was found that charities spend over £1.1bn per year writing grant application, 66% of which fail).  After consultation with hundreds of charities, foundations, grant makers and local authorities, our client was founded in May 2019.  They are now an integral part of the grant management process across the UK for charities and nonprofits.

The role:

We are looking for someone to help provide technical support to users, and aid in the maintenance and development of a core grants database. You will join a proactive, cross-functional team and play a key role in developing the product and service offer, reflecting the needs of  end users. 

• Building and maintaining our database. Working with a significant database of grants structured around grant-maker organisation profile and grant/round specific eligibility criteria.
• Your primary responsibility will be to maintain this database, proactively seeking ways to improve and enrich existing data quality to generate ever better matches between charities
  funding needs and grant-makers eligibility criteria.
• You will work closely with the data gathering team to ensure data is captured, structured, reviewed and loaded
• You will be responsible for designing your own research methods to design a constant pipeline of exciting new funding opportunities for charities like Environment, Disability, Mental Health, Supporting Women, Youths, Diversity and much more!
• Proactively research new trends in the data set, and provide constant insights to the wider team to help improve our tools, processes and offering
• Working with the wider team to promote new grants to eligible charities and nonprofits
• Working with the Product and development team to improve the the way you present and load information

Supporting users

• As a member of the support team you will be on hand to aid users to navigate the platform and provide 1st line support services, via email, telephone and live chat.
• You will work closely with all areas of the business to provide valuable feedback on users requirements, this will feed into future development, retention strategies,
  marketing plans and campaigns.
• Helping to create and maintain user support documentation, guides and other assets

What are we looking for?

• Excellent research and organisational skills
• Analytical problem solver with high attention to detail
• Customer support experience
• Strong communication and team-working skills
• Confidence to engage with senior level stakeholders & clients
• Experience and/or interest in working in the tech-for-good is a true bonus!
• Communicating insights with different teams (marketing, product, development)
• Experience of using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system
• Great verbal communication skills and experience of successful networking to drive membership growth
• Proactive self-starter looking to work in a small, nimble organisation
• Great team player with ability to work collaboratively
• Third sector knowledge and/or experience highly desirable

Frontend Software Engineer - Marine industry

Location: Plymouth onsite 5 days per week

Salary: Up to £50k salary

We partner with a software engineering firm that specialises in edge-based sensor-driven cognitive artificial intelligence to deliver safety-critical marine autonomy. Drawing on decades of experience in manned and unmanned vehicle design, manufacture and operations, coupled with vast experience in automation and autonomous systems software architecture and computer vision experience.

Role:

• Reporting to the Chief Software Engineer you will work on building the frontend including UI and utilising React/Javascript.
• Perform design and development of various web applications, software products and libraries
• This is a key role really building out the customer user interface that controls a number of backend marine autonomy applications
• Write technical documents explaining procedures, functions as well as end-user operational documentation.

What are we looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a similar discipline.
• Strong skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript along with their respective coding practices.
• A strong understanding of backend JavaScript frameworks, such as NodeJS and ExpressJS.
• Strong debugging skills, and the ability to independently detect bugs/problems and solve them.
• Fluency with Linux and windows development environment and Docker containers.
• Knowledge of communication techniques (i.e., RestAPI, WebSockets, MQTT, etc.)
• Strong understanding of software design methodologies.

Software Engineer - Marine industry

Location: Plymouth

Salary: Up to £50k salary

We partner with a software engineering firm that specialises in edge-based sensor-driven cognitive artificial intelligence to deliver safety-critical marine autonomy. Drawing on decades of experience in manned and unmanned vehicle design, manufacture and operations, coupled with vast experience in automation and autonomous systems software architecture and computer vision experience.

We are now looking to hire a Software Engineer to join the team and to continue with development. You will use specialised software such as IBMs Operational Decision Manager. 

The Role:

Based at the Plymouth site 5 days per week, this role will require a Software Engineer with skills in:

• Expert capability in C/C#
• Working knowledge of ASP.Net and WPF
• Strong capabilities in Azure DevOps (ie NuGet, pipelines)
• Experience with ML and AI
• WinOS and Linux
• Docker

What's in it for you?

An opportunity to work on cutting edge technology and systems and to be a part of a fast growing startup. 

• Basic salary up to £50k depending upon experience
• Opportunity for career development and further studies

Software Tester

Onsite in Plymouth (will need to be SC cleared)

Base to £45,000

We work with a leading player in the design, manufacture and construction of underwater vehicles and equipment. We now need to help them to expand the team by hiring a Software tester to focus on the growth of their work on marine autonomy.

Role:

• Write software test plans describing the tests, testing environment, acceptance criteria, and author reports summarizing the tests carried out.
• Collaborate with software owners to ensure software quality standards are adhered to throughout development and deployment of software.
• Assist in writing unit tests for both existing and future code based on functional requirements. The candidate will be required to write primarily in C#.
• Conduct integration testing in a dedicated simulation environments to ensure that the systems communicate amongst each correctly.
• Perform functional testing to verify that the functional specification has been satisfied.
• Manage CI/ CD pipelines within Azure DevOps.
• The test engineer will be report to the lead technical engineer.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics, robotics, or similar discipline.
• Strong skills in C# and C++, and their respective testing practices, and frameworks.
• Keen interest in the maritime sector and a willingness to continue to develop their skillset through mentoring and courses.
• Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills and an ability to work in a team environment

Desirable Experience:

• Knowledge of mechanics, statistics and understanding of applied mathematics.
• A proficiency in python programming.
• Knowledge of various sensor systems (i.e., EO/ IR cameras, Radar, LIDAR, etc.)
• Strong understanding of software design methodologies.
• Thorough understanding of working in development, staging, and production environments

Due to the sensitive nature of the work involved, you may be required to gain SC clearance and this is a fulltime office based role.

Data Scientist

London/Hybrid

Up to £60k base

• Using sentiment analysis to understand from an educator's notes if the session and learning materials were effective. (Proof of concept)
• Student-tutor matching based on learning profiles (generated by assessment) as well as things like budget, location, availability, etc. (Proof of concept)
• Student wellbeing monitoring (ideation)
• Using computer vision (and other ML/AI strategies) to understand a specific worksheet and possibly even create new ones (ideation)

The tech stack is primarily Typescript with a few python functions for some heavy lifting. They also have a few existing Jupyter Notebooks where some analysis has been created. 

Alongside your data work, they look for people willing to flex and to get involved in other areas where needed

• A real passion for all things data
• Someone who is keen to own major parts of the data process, from collection and analysis through to implementation
• A desire to help to build a data engineering function and to influence which roles and skills are hired to complement your own
• A willingness to learn and to develop further

Senior Product Designer

Location: Remote 

Salary: $140,000 - 160,000 plus equity

We are looking for a UI/UX Designer to reinforce our client's user-driven approach. As the first in-house UI/UX designer you will make an impact by driving the design of features that help software engineers across the globe!

The role also comes with the tremendous opportunity to establish the foundation for a more lovable user experience. As a small, fast-paced startup, they have the ability to respond quickly to customer requests and rapidly design and develop greenfield features. If you have a portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with developer tools or enterprise software applications, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you’ll create both functional and appealing features that address our customers’ needs and help our client grow their customer base.

Responsibilities

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Create design system components for products across our portfolio
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like

Requirements

• Basic technical understanding of DevOps, SaaS, Cloud
• Experience with designing developer tooling or enterprise software capabilities for technical users
• 4 years of UI / UX experience
• Motivated, Curious, Hungry, and Driven for a good user experience and design
• Knowledge of wireframe and design tools (e.g. Figma, InVision, Sketch, Balsamiq)
• Ability to work independently as well as with users across timezones
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Early Stage Stock Option Plan
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Work From Home
• Flexible working hours

Senior Fullstack Developer

Germany/ remote

Base to EURO 80,000

The future of retail is here, with live and social shopping solutions for next-level customer engagement! Our Tech client based in Germany is providing customer with a shopping experience that moves away from static pages and images. We now need to add a Senior Fullstack Developer to their growing engineering team of 3, working closely with the CTO and taking on the lead in terms of mentoring more junior team members.

The role:

Working closely on the platform in terms of building out new features, you will have a doer mindset and want to work with and be driven by innovation. Working with modern concepts of software development and enterprise cloud platforms along with a passion for agile working methods.

You will master Javascript (ES2015+) and/or Typescript and will have use your experience of debugging and automation techniques. Together with your team, you will take full responsibility for the product, from software design, implementation and testing to code reviews, deployment and monitoring.