My client is a well-known global brand and now looking for 2 x Back End Developers to join their digital team here in London.

JOB PURPOSE
The purpose of this role is to take the lead in the definition, implementation and continuous improvement of their digital engineering strategy, specifically for back-end services and API’s. Working with colleagues, you will be required to balance hands on development, strategy and architecture with leading and influencing a number of onshore and offshore teams across multiple back-end domains and disciplines (i.e. Products, eCommerce, Account, Payments etc.).

Reporting to the Director of Delivery this is a key role within the Digital team. It will require an extremely hands on approach with a key part of the role being managing relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders both inside and outside of Digital.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Extensive experience developing and maintaining applications within a Full Stack environment.
• A strong Java background.
• Experience working on global e-commerce products.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, the ability to clearly articulate a point of view to both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• An excellent understanding of micro-services and proven experience working & leading strategy in such an environment. (including; lean, micro-services, internal open source principals)
• Experience implementing and championing Agile working practices such as Scrum, Kanban and XP and CI/CD, TDD & BDD etc.
• A passion for improving existing code and an interest in test automation and modern deployment techniques.
• The ability to continually improve codebases, and to understand when enough refactoring is enough.
• At least 6 years’ experience of working with backend end technologies and products including; Java, Spring, AWS, SQL Databases.
• Experience ensuring the performance and stability of server side end applications.
• Exposure to the full lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production testing.
• Involvement in defining and implementing a continuous delivery pipeline
• Understanding of tools for version control (eg. Git) and continuous integration (eg. Jenkins)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
• Passion, enthusiasm for and a deep interest in technology and software engineering.

You must be eligible to live and work in the UK for this role.

No sponsorship

My client is an independent, award-winning, creative agency that’s sole purpose is to make tired brands famous again.

They’re multi-disciplined their our hearts lie in digital.

Right now, there’s about 38 in the studio (plus 6 rotating office dogs) – but that number grows all the time because they’re still young, ambitious and pretty good at what they do.

International Design and Branding agency based in Central London are looking to take on board a Senior Designer with a minimum 5 years experience to join a highly busy and extremely successful team specialising in high-end property marketing for a range of blue chip clients around the globe.

The ideal candidate will have a fresh and modern portfolio brimming with top quality work from the B2B, B2C and ideally the property marketing sector. You will have worked across a full range of marketing materials in your career and should have no problems working on a bespoke DM piece through to a marketing suite.

You should be highly conceptual in your approach and have no problems taking your work through to final artwork
if required.

This is a very busy studio that requires you to have tons of common sense and a hassle free no-nonsense approach
to the way you work.

Please get your up to date CV and samples across to us asap.

My client is looking for a User Experience Architect to join their UX team.
Working across clients like PayPal, Mazda, L’Oréal and many more they provide a wealth of opportunity for imaginative and ambitious talent.

JOB PURPOSE: Research and design engaging digital experiences for their clients’ customers, utilising user-centred design processes. Work collaboratively with specialists across tech, visual design and data to ensure the digital products they design are usable and memorable.

REPORTING TO: Head of UX

What does the role involve?

The UX Architect is critical in ensuring the products and experiences we develop for their clients are anchored in an understanding of the needs and behaviours of customers. The role combines research, design and validation. Utilising appropriate techniques and tools, you ensure that: we have relevant insight into these customers; the designs and layouts reflect these needs; the designs have been validated with end users.

Insight

• Perform site evaluations, competitive site audits and desk research

• Conduct user interviews and surveys to assess needs, behaviours and pain points

• Work with data and SEO teams to analyse data sets to uncover relevant insights

• Participate in workshops to understand the client’s objectives

• Develop personas and user journeys

• Produce recommendations from user research relevant to the project

• Prepare and present findings and strategic recommendations

Design

• Develop forward-thinking, relevant IA: sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes and functional specifications across different interfaces and devices

Validation

• Plan and run appropriate user tests throughout the product development lifecycle

• Advise and assist with test audience recruitment

• Develop testing scenarios/scripts

• Document session outputs .

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You must be eligible to live and work in the UK for this role.

Established design studio based in London is looking for a talented Senior Designer to join their excellent creative team after a very big pitch win working on a transport related client which is said to be as big as the underground.

They are looking for a 360 branding designer who has worked on taking a brand from the initial concept stages and pushing this across multiple touch points, print, campaign, digital etc. If you are looking for a studio where you can be autonomous and produce clever, strategically led work which is ascetically slick then this is the agency for you.

This agency needs a confident individual who is looking to build their career and progress within the agency. You’ll be fully proficient in Adobe CS and able to pick up a pencil and sketch ideas. Personality wise you will be a team player with a thirst for knowledge and sharing ideas, the team is very collaborative and know how to work hard and play hard. This is a truly fantastic opportunity to work with one the industry greats

Please apply with a relevant cv and portfolio

Leading communications and marketing agency based in West London is looking for a strategically lead senior branding designer to join their award winning creative team.

They work with some of the most iconic tech brands creating a wide variety of work, from branding and identities, websites and interactive to content marketing (videos, ebooks, long-ass web pages); with an emphasis on digital and exciting design innovation.

You will be a designer who is creatively looking for a challenge. You will excited by the prospect of creating work that will be award winning for one of the market leading agencies. Your book will be full of amazing thought-provoking ideas, beautifully executed, ideally across digital formats too.

Please apply with a relevant cv and portfolio

Senior iOS Developers – Mobility

BERLIN: Genuinely one of the top vacancies right now in the iOS space.

Senior iOS Developer opportunity to join a brand new team for a world first innovative mobility product. Some of the features and projects planned for the near and far future are pretty exciting.

We are looking for creative minds, and those who can help shape the vision for future mobility and user / customer needs. If you are experienced in mobile development and love machine learning, this will be very interesting to you.

Partnered by one of Germany’s most recognised organisations this new venture is already becoming an exciting prospect for smart mobility.

You will be part of a brand new team of mobile enthusiasts and specialists working across both consumer facing and B2B mobility apps. The team is growing and you’ll be one of the first developers working on this type of product.

About:

• Create innovative and potentially pioneering applications in digital mobility
• A real opportunity to build something new and innovative from scratch, help shape the engineering culture and tackling everyday problems we all face when travelling
• You will design product interfaces, implement new features and build high performance scalable systems
• Responsible for the design and development of the technology.
• Real genuine passion for mobile development and mobility is a huge plus

You:

• Degree educated in Computer Science or similar
• Senior Engineer level is needed with 4+ years experience minimum in mobile software development
• Swift language experience preferred
• Excellent English language skills
• Solid experience building successful mobile applications
• An interest in Machine learning will be a massive bonus for you
• Experience in / or interest in MVVM design patterns

Crowd funding and investment is big, Blockchain is getting bigger, so why not put them together?

What is it?

We have a VERY appealing CTO position open for someone who has a strong belief in blockchain technology, has some experience in blockchain app development and is a senior technical leader with backend languages.

Backed by one of Germany’s leading VC companies the vision is to build a successful blockchain platform/channel from an existing and expanding investment platform. The opportunity to really be part of an industry first product, and to drive the technical capabilities.

You:

• You will need to be a hands on CTO with recent software development experience in backend technologies, PHP ideally, but not essential.
• One of your first key tasks will be to investigate, analyse and decide upon the technical stack and future of the current platform
• Blockchain app development and passion for the technology is key. You will be involved in big decisions on the platform complexity and product development, as well as business decisions and a senior management member.
• You will be in charge of a small team of full stack developers, and then grow the team as you see fit with blockchain development a key part.
• The desire to work in a very international environment and enjoy working with people from all nationalities and backgrounds
• Fintech experience is important but not critical

Tech:

• Blockchain app development experience – terms like Tokens, Ethereum, eWallets and cryptographic protocols are everyday words to you
• Experience with Linux, MySQL, AWS, Symfony
• Previous experience with PHP5 or PHP7 is a massive benefit

Why:

• Be part of the core management team driving the future of the business
• The chance to analyse technology needs and manage tech team operations
• Work with some great, friendly and personable people who all believe in the potential
• Responsibility – you will play a key part in the technology stack
• Attractive salary as well as an employee stock ownership plan