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  • Midlothian
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020

Barrachd means "more" in Gaelic and is a business within Capita's new Consulting division. Barrachd is a fast-growing Data Transformation and Analytics firm with our head office in Edinburgh but most of our colleagues are based from home across the UK. We work with blue chip clients across multiple sectors, helping them unlock the potential in their data. Key to our success is delivering great analytical solutions that offer real business benefits and delighting our customers with the work we do for them.

We are looking for a UI software developers to join our rapidly growing Edinburgh-based team. Our experienced Agile Scrum team of 20 has been running Agile Scrum for 30 months. We're now recruiting to complete the team.

As one of the UK's leading data and analytics consultancies, we design, build and implement solutions for our clients across the UK using industry-leading technology. We also successfully develop and implement our own cutting-edge software products and tools too. To do all this, our 60-strong team consists of some of the UK's top Analytics Consultants, Business Analysts, Developers and Data Experts; but we recruit fresh, new minds too - that way we create a constant exchange of knowledge. (And as part of one of the UK's largest plc's we can also offer fantastic career prospects, opportunities and benefits!)

We utilise a combination of the latest technologies in our UI: Java, Javascriipt, React, C#, SQL server, however, as long as you have some experience, and you're willing and enthusiastic to learn, having the exact technology and methodology match isn't a must. We always enable regular training to share your skills and learn new ones and encouraging a positive, team first culture.

What you'll be doing:

  • Work as an integral part of our Agile Scrum team to develop software products
  • Love and own the UI components of our products
  • Build solid reliable software products which delight our customers
  • Assist colleagues and participate in occasional pair programming
  • Assist the QA with automated testing and to resolve issues
  • Assist the BA/UX with requirements refinement

What we're looking for:

  • Experience with one of the following; Javascript, React framework, Java, C#
  • Logical with the ability to solve problems
  • Experience and/or qualifications in software development
  • Ability to work closely with others

What's in it for you?

  • A competitive basic salary
  • 23 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
  • Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave and plenty more
  • Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology

You'll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You'll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we'll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you'll do next:

Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

  • Midlothian
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020

Barrachd means "more" in Gaelic and is a business within Capita's new Consulting division. Barrachd is a fast-growing Data Transformation and Analytics firm with our head office in Edinburgh but most of our colleagues are based from home across the UK. We work with blue chip clients across multiple sectors, helping them unlock the potential in their data. Key to our success is delivering great analytical solutions that offer real business benefits and delighting our customers with the work we do for them.

We are looking for a UI software developers to join our rapidly growing Edinburgh-based team. Our experienced Agile Scrum team of 20 has been running Agile Scrum for 30 months. We're now recruiting to complete the team.

As one of the UK's leading data and analytics consultancies, we design, build and implement solutions for our clients across the UK using industry-leading technology. We also successfully develop and implement our own cutting-edge software products and tools too. To do all this, our 60-strong team consists of some of the UK's top Analytics Consultants, Business Analysts, Developers and Data Experts; but we recruit fresh, new minds too - that way we create a constant exchange of knowledge. (And as part of one of the UK's largest plc's we can also offer fantastic career prospects, opportunities and benefits!)

We utilise a combination of the latest technologies in our UI: Java, Javascriipt, React, C#, SQL server, however, as long as you have some experience, and you're willing and enthusiastic to learn, having the exact technology and methodology match isn't a must. We always enable regular training to share your skills and learn new ones and encouraging a positive, team first culture.

What you'll be doing:

  • Work as an integral part of our Agile Scrum team to develop software products
  • Love and own the UI components of our products
  • Build solid reliable software products which delight our customers
  • Assist colleagues and participate in occasional pair programming
  • Assist the QA with automated testing and to resolve issues
  • Assist the BA/UX with requirements refinement

What we're looking for:

  • Experience with one of the following; Javascript, React framework, Java, C#
  • Logical with the ability to solve problems
  • Experience and/or qualifications in software development
  • Ability to work closely with others

What's in it for you?

  • A competitive basic salary
  • 23 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
  • Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave and plenty more
  • Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology

You'll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You'll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we'll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you'll do next:

Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

  • Cambridge
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
We have a start-up mentality within a 150-year-old organisation
What we're looking for
Are you a strong Senior Developer with the experience, ability and ambition to help us as we scale our digital product development team? We are growing our team and so are recruiting senior developers with expertise in building cloud-scale, web and native consumer-grade products to help lead and build the technical delivery.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact for our team and our industry. Our products are used by millions of English language users globally, but we are just at the beginning of achieving our ambitions.
You will be working on a combination of API, web and native products. Our core stack a combination of Node and Java on the backend, React and React Native on the frontend, all deployed on AWS increasingly using infrastructure as code. While we are comfortable on these, we are looking for your experience to help us accelerate our development and make use of new technologies and techniques.
About the New Product team in Cambridge Assessment English
The New Product team is focused on delivering new products and capabilities through user centred design, agile development, R&D and collaboration with university research. The cross-functional team brings product owners, UX, assessment and market expertise along with a strong development team to build impactful digital learning and assessment technology. To give us an edge in finding and developing great ideas, we constantly research new, emerging and maturing technology and combine this with industry standard practices such as serverless, cloud-native architectures and CI/CD. We collaborate with deep, fundamental research in machine learning while building products for a global audience. This demanding but exciting combination is unusual in any team.
Our work involves experimenting in hackathons with new technologies such as AR, VR, Minecraft, blockchain, stress sensors and more. This keeps us innovative and brings fresh new ideas to our team and the organisation.
Work on global products
Cambridge Assessment English develops and produces Cambridge English qualifications, courses and tests, taken by over 5 million people every year in 130 countries and recognised by more than 20,000 universities, employers and governments. Ultimately your contribution will enable the world's leading education specialist to make a real difference to learners worldwide.
In your toolkit
  • You will have strengths in either front- or backend technologies, but should be comfortable working or collaborating in either to keep the team moving.
  • If backend, solid Node or Java in production and at scale.
  • If frontend, React and React Native as well as the associated libraries, frameworks and tooling
  • Solid dev tooling knowledge such as git, Linux command line, scripting, build tools and similar
  • You will be comfortable being the tech lead on product development, making decisions with the team and the Product Owners and Product Managers.
  • Experience of collaborative software projects and processes such as branching, build processes, codebase conflict resolution, refactoring. You will be able to bridge the tech-business discussions.
  • All roles will require modern architecture built across multiple cloud services. Experience of AWS an advantage.
Ambitious deadlines
You must understand how to structure code to be clear and understandable, while being pragmatically refactored. You will be working in an agile team with ambitious deadlines, so you will have experience of modern CI/CD processes and following scrum.
Surprise yourself - and shape your future
Working in a tight-knit team you'll grow your skills and grow further than you thought possible on challenging and stimulating projects that will enrich your career.
Who we are
Cambridge Assessment English is a part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge. We are the global leader in English language assessment. We help people learn English and prove their skills to the world. We provide exams in English for speakers of other languages taken by over 5 million candidates worldwide each year, as well as the leading range of qualifications for language teachers.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits to help with your life both inside and outside of work:
  • Generous contributory pension
  • 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • Annual salary review and discretionary company bonus
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
  • Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers
  • Cycle scheme
  • Season Ticket Loan
  • Subsidised staff restaurants
  • Support for professional qualifications
  • Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.
This role closes on 16 March. There are a number of roles available and this campaign is therefore being recruited on a continuous basis until the roles are filled. Please apply ASAP to avoid missing out as it could close at any time. Please include descriptions and/or links to recent work.
We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches lead to innovation and create an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued. As well as wanting to create diverse teams, we also value diversity in the way our people approach their work. Work/life balance is important to us at Cambridge Assessment and we offer our colleagues a range of flexible working options according to the needs of the business and the individual, so please let us know of any flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.
To apply, please upload your CV and covering letter please click the APPLY button.
If you're successful at interview stage we will ask you to undergo background screening (carried out by Credence Background Screening Ltd), to ensure that all information provided to us is accurate. We wish you all the very best with your application.
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER
  • Cambridge
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
We have a start-up mentality within a 150-year-old organisation
What we're looking for
Are you a strong Senior Developer with the experience, ability and ambition to help us as we scale our digital product development team? We are growing our team and so are recruiting senior developers with expertise in building cloud-scale, web and native consumer-grade products to help lead and build the technical delivery.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact for our team and our industry. Our products are used by millions of English language users globally, but we are just at the beginning of achieving our ambitions.
You will be working on a combination of API, web and native products. Our core stack a combination of Node and Java on the backend, React and React Native on the frontend, all deployed on AWS increasingly using infrastructure as code. While we are comfortable on these, we are looking for your experience to help us accelerate our development and make use of new technologies and techniques.
About the New Product team in Cambridge Assessment English
The New Product team is focused on delivering new products and capabilities through user centred design, agile development, R&D and collaboration with university research. The cross-functional team brings product owners, UX, assessment and market expertise along with a strong development team to build impactful digital learning and assessment technology. To give us an edge in finding and developing great ideas, we constantly research new, emerging and maturing technology and combine this with industry standard practices such as serverless, cloud-native architectures and CI/CD. We collaborate with deep, fundamental research in machine learning while building products for a global audience. This demanding but exciting combination is unusual in any team.
Our work involves experimenting in hackathons with new technologies such as AR, VR, Minecraft, blockchain, stress sensors and more. This keeps us innovative and brings fresh new ideas to our team and the organisation.
Work on global products
Cambridge Assessment English develops and produces Cambridge English qualifications, courses and tests, taken by over 5 million people every year in 130 countries and recognised by more than 20,000 universities, employers and governments. Ultimately your contribution will enable the world's leading education specialist to make a real difference to learners worldwide.
In your toolkit
  • You will have strengths in either front- or backend technologies, but should be comfortable working or collaborating in either to keep the team moving.
  • If backend, solid Node or Java in production and at scale.
  • If frontend, React and React Native as well as the associated libraries, frameworks and tooling
  • Solid dev tooling knowledge such as git, Linux command line, scripting, build tools and similar
  • You will be comfortable being the tech lead on product development, making decisions with the team and the Product Owners and Product Managers.
  • Experience of collaborative software projects and processes such as branching, build processes, codebase conflict resolution, refactoring. You will be able to bridge the tech-business discussions.
  • All roles will require modern architecture built across multiple cloud services. Experience of AWS an advantage.
Ambitious deadlines
You must understand how to structure code to be clear and understandable, while being pragmatically refactored. You will be working in an agile team with ambitious deadlines, so you will have experience of modern CI/CD processes and following scrum.
Surprise yourself - and shape your future
Working in a tight-knit team you'll grow your skills and grow further than you thought possible on challenging and stimulating projects that will enrich your career.
Who we are
Cambridge Assessment English is a part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge. We are the global leader in English language assessment. We help people learn English and prove their skills to the world. We provide exams in English for speakers of other languages taken by over 5 million candidates worldwide each year, as well as the leading range of qualifications for language teachers.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits to help with your life both inside and outside of work:
  • Generous contributory pension
  • 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • Annual salary review and discretionary company bonus
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
  • Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers
  • Cycle scheme
  • Season Ticket Loan
  • Subsidised staff restaurants
  • Support for professional qualifications
  • Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.
This role closes on 16 March. There are a number of roles available and this campaign is therefore being recruited on a continuous basis until the roles are filled. Please apply ASAP to avoid missing out as it could close at any time. Please include descriptions and/or links to recent work.
We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches lead to innovation and create an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued. As well as wanting to create diverse teams, we also value diversity in the way our people approach their work. Work/life balance is important to us at Cambridge Assessment and we offer our colleagues a range of flexible working options according to the needs of the business and the individual, so please let us know of any flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.
To apply, please upload your CV and covering letter please click the APPLY button.
If you're successful at interview stage we will ask you to undergo background screening (carried out by Credence Background Screening Ltd), to ensure that all information provided to us is accurate. We wish you all the very best with your application.
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER
  • Salford, UK
  • £60k - 70k
  • 10 Mar 2020

Job description

Band: E
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London, Salford or Glasgow

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

  • Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
  • Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
  • Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

As the Software Engineering Manager in the Core Services team within Design and Engineering, you will help lead a world class team who are reinventing BBC Online. Core Services are building the shared product infrastructure and services that will underpin and power a more personalised and relevant BBC to audiences across web, apps and beyond.

The team is tasked with delivering the new core web and product services framework on which six of the BBC’s eight audience-facing digital services – News, Sport, Weather, Children’s, Education and Homepage – are based. This means enabling, and working closely with, these big and much-loved services to create the engaging digital propositions of the future through resilient and sound foundations.

Core Services is a collaborative, dynamic team, with our Product Managers, Engineers, Project Managers and Designers shaping how we build the next generation of products and services. By working with us, you will help build out the wider BBC’s vision to create the world’s best digital services, using cutting edge technology, collaboration, and championing faster, simpler ways of ways of doing things. Specifically, Core Services is responsible for developing:

Smart proxy and traffic management layer : Our highly available and resilient front door which manages load, provides caching for all services, handles failure and manages canary deployments.

Presentation layer: Our highly performant core rendering framework (React) and the design system (GEL) for the whole of BBC online (i.e. a shared visual layer/experience).

Business Layer : Obtains and aggregates data from a wide range of platform services and APIs across BBC online.

Developer Productivity: To enable innovation and speed at scale, our Dev Prod team provides the build, test, deploy services through CI/CI, SRE capability, tooling and champion reliability, performance and an excellent developer experience for all digital products.

Role Responsibility

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager for Core Services to lead multiple teams across multiple locations (Glasgow, London, Salford). You’ll be an experienced technology leader who understands large scale cloud native systems and applications. You’ll be partnering with the product team in delivering a world class product experience while driving engineering practices forward and provide new capabilities across the department.

Our tech stack is modern and cloud native (AWS). You’ll get a chance to help the team deliver cutting edge technical solutions that power the BBC’s biggest brands including News and Sport.  As a member of the Engineering Leadership team, you will have the opportunity to work with your peers in engineering and other disciplines to help us make our world class team even better. Driving initiatives and helping us get to places we have never been before.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal candidate for this role will :

  • Care about people, are passionate about leading teams and developing individuals in order that they can their maximise their potential
  • Optimise for speed and have a bias for action ensuring that we make sound technical decisions quickly
  • Know what “good” looks like and are highly skilled in the recruitment and retention of high calibre engineers
  • Be delivery focussed and pragmatic when it comes to agile, know that one practice or process does not rule them all, use various tools and your experience to facilitate continuous improvement especially in the software engineering craft and within lean processes.
  • Have experience of large scale, high volume customer facing applications and experience with API design and service oriented architecture
  • Have experience of managing multiple stakeholders in a complex matrix environment and of running programmes of work comprising of numerous complex systems
  • Be a seasoned leader with demonstrable experience of leading multiple software development teams
  • Track record of growing engineers and engineering leaders
  • Salford, UK
  • £60k - 70k
  • 10 Mar 2020

Job description

Band: E
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London, Salford or Glasgow

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

  • Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
  • Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
  • Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

As the Software Engineering Manager in the Core Services team within Design and Engineering, you will help lead a world class team who are reinventing BBC Online. Core Services are building the shared product infrastructure and services that will underpin and power a more personalised and relevant BBC to audiences across web, apps and beyond.

The team is tasked with delivering the new core web and product services framework on which six of the BBC’s eight audience-facing digital services – News, Sport, Weather, Children’s, Education and Homepage – are based. This means enabling, and working closely with, these big and much-loved services to create the engaging digital propositions of the future through resilient and sound foundations.

Core Services is a collaborative, dynamic team, with our Product Managers, Engineers, Project Managers and Designers shaping how we build the next generation of products and services. By working with us, you will help build out the wider BBC’s vision to create the world’s best digital services, using cutting edge technology, collaboration, and championing faster, simpler ways of ways of doing things. Specifically, Core Services is responsible for developing:

Smart proxy and traffic management layer : Our highly available and resilient front door which manages load, provides caching for all services, handles failure and manages canary deployments.

Presentation layer: Our highly performant core rendering framework (React) and the design system (GEL) for the whole of BBC online (i.e. a shared visual layer/experience).

Business Layer : Obtains and aggregates data from a wide range of platform services and APIs across BBC online.

Developer Productivity: To enable innovation and speed at scale, our Dev Prod team provides the build, test, deploy services through CI/CI, SRE capability, tooling and champion reliability, performance and an excellent developer experience for all digital products.

Role Responsibility

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager for Core Services to lead multiple teams across multiple locations (Glasgow, London, Salford). You’ll be an experienced technology leader who understands large scale cloud native systems and applications. You’ll be partnering with the product team in delivering a world class product experience while driving engineering practices forward and provide new capabilities across the department.

Our tech stack is modern and cloud native (AWS). You’ll get a chance to help the team deliver cutting edge technical solutions that power the BBC’s biggest brands including News and Sport.  As a member of the Engineering Leadership team, you will have the opportunity to work with your peers in engineering and other disciplines to help us make our world class team even better. Driving initiatives and helping us get to places we have never been before.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal candidate for this role will :

  • Care about people, are passionate about leading teams and developing individuals in order that they can their maximise their potential
  • Optimise for speed and have a bias for action ensuring that we make sound technical decisions quickly
  • Know what “good” looks like and are highly skilled in the recruitment and retention of high calibre engineers
  • Be delivery focussed and pragmatic when it comes to agile, know that one practice or process does not rule them all, use various tools and your experience to facilitate continuous improvement especially in the software engineering craft and within lean processes.
  • Have experience of large scale, high volume customer facing applications and experience with API design and service oriented architecture
  • Have experience of managing multiple stakeholders in a complex matrix environment and of running programmes of work comprising of numerous complex systems
  • Be a seasoned leader with demonstrable experience of leading multiple software development teams
  • Track record of growing engineers and engineering leaders
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
UI Software Engineer, JavaScript - Pricing and Structuring
As a member of our software engineering group we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation & engineering practices. You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You'll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment-one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

This role is for an experienced JavaScript developer to work on a new platform build using modern Web technologies (RX.js, Typescript, Redux, React). This person will be responsible for the development of new features and be accountable for the overall success of deliveries including analysis and design, development, deployment, optimization and day to day operations. You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team including UX/VD designers, business analysts, UI and server- side developers.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- Understanding of architecture and design
- Working proficiency in developmental toolsets
- Knowledge of industry wide technology strategies and best practices
- Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture
- Experience of full software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
- You must have in-depth knowledge of modern Web technologies - React, Redux, Typescript, RX.js.
- Have a DevOps mind-set, with a strong focus on continuous improvement.
- Knowledge in memory/ CPU usage profiling, optimizing and tuning is advantageous.
In-depth knowledge of modern Web technologies - React, Redux, Typescript, RX.js. Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain the technology that helps us safely service the world's important corporations, governments and institutions. You'll develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits. CIB provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.
When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you're not just working at a global financial institution. You're an integral part of one of the world's biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 40,000+ technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $9.5B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry, but also change the world.

At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we're building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you're looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.

@2019 JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan Chase is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer Disability/Veteran.
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
UI Software Engineer, JavaScript - Pricing and Structuring
As a member of our software engineering group we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation & engineering practices. You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You'll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment-one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

This role is for an experienced JavaScript developer to work on a new platform build using modern Web technologies (RX.js, Typescript, Redux, React). This person will be responsible for the development of new features and be accountable for the overall success of deliveries including analysis and design, development, deployment, optimization and day to day operations. You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team including UX/VD designers, business analysts, UI and server- side developers.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- Understanding of architecture and design
- Working proficiency in developmental toolsets
- Knowledge of industry wide technology strategies and best practices
- Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture
- Experience of full software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
- You must have in-depth knowledge of modern Web technologies - React, Redux, Typescript, RX.js.
- Have a DevOps mind-set, with a strong focus on continuous improvement.
- Knowledge in memory/ CPU usage profiling, optimizing and tuning is advantageous.
In-depth knowledge of modern Web technologies - React, Redux, Typescript, RX.js. Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain the technology that helps us safely service the world's important corporations, governments and institutions. You'll develop solutions for a bank entrusted with holding $18 trillion of assets and $393 billion in deposits. CIB provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.
When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you're not just working at a global financial institution. You're an integral part of one of the world's biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 40,000+ technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $9.5B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry, but also change the world.

At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we're building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you're looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.

@2019 JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan Chase is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer Disability/Veteran.
  • London, UK
  • £90k - 110k
  • 10 Mar 2020

Job description

Who is Upp?

The world of retail changed forever when the world went online. Now competition is fiercer than ever, and businesses are struggling to survive. Why?

Firstly, companies struggle to drive revenue across multiple channels. Amazon, eBay, and Google all categorise, list and sell products differently so it’s hard to effectively sell on more than one channel. Secondly, companies still focus too heavily on revenue generation. On average, across an entire product range the company profit will be driven by only 30% of their products, the remaining 70% is sold at cost or loss.

Upp wants to help both local retailers and global multinationals to not only survive in this market but thrive, by enabling them to not only drive revenue more effectively across multiple channels but also to allow businesses to understand their profitability at an individual product level.

 The Upp journey so far:

Upp focused on building their first module, their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. This addressed the challenge with selling products across multiple channels. Retailers can plug into the Upp platform, the platform ingests all of their data effortlessly, it figures out what data is missing using machine learning, it uses image processing to enrich the product data, and it then lists the products on multiple channels intelligently adjusting the listing depending on how that channel works. This allowed products to be listed 40x fast than traditional methods whilst, improving product visibility and increasing sales margins.

As Upp started plugging customers in to their platform, they discovered a more deep-rooted challenge for these businesses. Companies focused on revenue generation as a key business metric and their teams’ performance was measured in this way. Businesses with high revenue figures struggled because they didn’t have visibility of which of their products were selling at a cost or a profit. This is why local independents to global multinational retailers struggle alike to survive, they don’t have visibility of profit margins at a macro level.

Upp are now building a second module, their “Intelligent Margin Hub” to allow retailers to have macro visibility of their data and provide actionable insights.

The Upp mission:

To save retailers, small and large, by giving them access to data and insights that allows them to improve profitability and win more customers.

Company Overview:

Current Snapshot:

Upp is a mission led startup looking to address a core challenge within one of the largest business sectors in the world, online retail. They are focused on developing and constantly improving the two core components of their product.  

Upp has 25 employees based in their London office in Fitzrovia; with large open plan spaces great for collaboration, meetups and product demos, and obviously the obligatory beer fridge. Although the office space is great, it is the culture and sense of purpose that shines through.

For now, Upp is focused on increasing the number of paying customers using their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. Whilst the “Intelligent Margin Hub” is at Beta stage with a small number of businesses.

The company is well funded, in late 2021 Upp will either look to raise their Series B or be profitable. At this point the company will be heavily scaling, both in terms of customers acquisition and hiring within the product engineering function.

 The Product:

Overview:

The Upp platform enables retailers to drive macro business outcomes by combining marketing, ecommerce and business data to win more customers and improve profitability.

 Upp uses machine learning to enrich product titles, attributes and descriptions so they’re found by more consumers. Upp intelligently lists your products on Google Shopping and Amazon 40x faster than traditional methods while improving your product visibility and effectively increasing your sales and margin.

Beyond product listing capabilities, Upp empowers ecommerce and digital marketing teams to make smart online retail decisions, by giving them SKU level margin visibility and providing insights and actions to drive the best results. Upp aligns your teams around the bigger picture by simply connecting silos of data from across the business and helping the team stay focused on profitability.

 Upp currently has two modules:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Taking product information and intelligently optimizing it for Google Shopping to drive revenue and profitability
  • Improving your product visibility by enriching product titles and attributes to ensure your product is seen more and the customer experience improves
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Providing SKU level margin visibility, insights and actions to optimize digital marketing spend and increase profitability
  • Simply connects business and marketing data from the across the business to provide insights and focus on the right metrics

 Product Roadmap for 2020

In 2019 the focus was getting the Listing Engine production ready whilst building starting to build the Margin Hub module. There was also a focus on consolidating and simplifying the architecture and tech stack to allow for both rapid feature development and building reliable, secure code.

The product roadmap for 2020:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Improve/mature current features:
    • Improve the management of products across channels
    • Add in social channels
    • Improving the data enrichment process
    • Introducing more self-service features
  • Continuing to take customer feedback to drive new feature development
  • Focusing on performance and scalability as the customer base grows
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Taking Margin Hub from MVP to Production, whilst onboarding live customers.
  • Integrate into retailers back office platforms
  • Report SKU level margin performance
  • Integrate with external data sources to identify trends
  • Use machine learning to generate “recommend” actions to improve profit margins

Product Engineering:

Team Structure

The Product Engineering function is 20 strong. Drew heads up Product, with a team of Product Owners and Designers. Ben heads up Engineering, leading 3 lean cross-functional teams.

The engineering squads are aligned to the product modules:

  • Intelligent Listing Engine
  • Intelligent Margin Hub
  • Product data – metadata and modelling

Upp has 2 core squads, each squad is a cross functional team that consists of Front and Backend Developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and Data Scientists. Each squad is headed up by a Product Owner and Lead Developer that guide and inspire the squad, Upp describe the PO and Lead Dev, as the CPO and CTO of the squad.

Each squad has their own focused backlog and they work to fortnightly sprints. The features worked on cut across the entire stack. Each squad has their own designer and frontend engineer, but developers will still be able to work full stack and have input into product design. DevOps responsibilities are shared across the squads as well.

The focus for the first half of 2020 is on the product and customer acquisition, the second half of the year will be focused on scaling the product engineering function.

Stack:

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Microservices Architecture, GraphQL, Kafka.
  • Frontend: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Database: MongoDB, Neo4j.
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Lead Developer

Your Role:

You will be taking over as Lead Developer of the Margin Hub team. Margin Hub is in MVP state and the focus is now getting this production ready. Margin Hub will be the largest revenue generator for Upp, so you’ll be taking over a critical part of the platform with a strategic focus from the exec team.

Your role will split between hands on and leadership.

  • 80% hands on – leading on architectural decisions, overseeing execution and being an individual contributor. You will be the technical SME for the team.
  • 20% leadership – line management of the team (monthly meetings, OKR’s) and mentoring the team on technical decision making. This will be closely supported by the Director of Engineering.

You will work closely with the Product Owner to ensure product and engineering are aligned, agree priorities and ensure delivery is on track.

You will also be tasked with owning the architecture and ensuring that Margin Hub is designed and built in a robust and scalable way.

The team are all London based and form a close knit unit.  

What you will be tasked with:

  • You will lead the squad and have overall accountability for the product delivery.
  • You will form a close partnership with the Product Owner to ensure consistency from Product Research/Design to Delivery.
  • Your will inspire the team to challenge what is technically possible and enable those around you.
  • You will educate and mentor the squad on technical decision making, maturing their understanding of trade-offs.
  • You will review the current state of the product and drive technical innovation.
  • You will be able to architect the product with resilience, performance and scalability in mind.
  • You will own the architecture, tech and tooling.

What Upp are looking for in you:

Non-negotiables – soft skills:

  • An interest in product and startups. Working with a small team to take a new offering to market excites you. You understand user needs, market positioning and how that flows into product build.
  • Mission led. Someone who buys into the mission of a company and the problem they are solving. Upp are growing fast and have a tonne of things they need to achieve, they want people that are bought in for the long term and believe in what they’re doing.
  • Pragmatic thinker. You have a structured approach to situations, if you don’t know the answer, you’ll know how to find it out.
  • Open to change. You are able to work in a fast paced environments where priorities can change instantly, and you are able to adjust.
  • Technologist. Someone that understands technology on a deeper level, you will have worked with different architectural patterns and programming languages and understand why different tools work better for different situations.

Non-negotiables – tech skills:

  • Strong experience in Java, Spring and Microservices development.
  • Strong experience on platform integration. Margin Hub needs to integrate with multiple customer platforms. Upp have just invested in Cloud Elements as the key integration tool.  
  • Solid on code quality and testing, and DevOps.
  • Strong on architectural principles, ideally Event Sourcing and CQRS.
  • Ability to mentor others on technical decision making on the Upp tech stack.

 Nice to haves:

  • Experience with Kotlin.
  • Hands on DevOps/infrastructure experience.

What you will achieve in your first six months:

  • Built strong relationships with the team and be the go-to person for help and support.
  • Have led the Margin Hub product to be production ready and have multiple customers on the platform.
  • Have led the architecture and design of the platform, as well as contributed to the codebase.
  • Reviewed and improved aspects of the architecture, stack and tooling.
  • Matured the decision making of the team  and helped make them better engineers.
  • Have recruited strong engineers to join the team.

How your role will evolve:

Upp expect to grow significantly in Q4 2020/Q1 2021, which will means more product teams. The two opportunities this will likely present to you is:

  • Principal Engineer; an overarching role to own the tech stack for Upp.
  • Engineering Manager/Head of; if you would be interested in the people management route.

The Package and Benefits:

  • £90-110,000 basic salary + 10% bonus (paid quarterly)
  • Tech of your choice
  • 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
  • Pension Scheme
  • Free breakfasts, strong coffee, fully stacked fridge with drinks and snacks.
  • Other perks: free mobile phone insurance, cinema discounts, eyecare voucher scheme, employee assistance programme.

Interview process:

1 stage, 1.5 hour interview process 

  • London, UK
  • £90k - 110k
  • 10 Mar 2020

Job description

Who is Upp?

The world of retail changed forever when the world went online. Now competition is fiercer than ever, and businesses are struggling to survive. Why?

Firstly, companies struggle to drive revenue across multiple channels. Amazon, eBay, and Google all categorise, list and sell products differently so it’s hard to effectively sell on more than one channel. Secondly, companies still focus too heavily on revenue generation. On average, across an entire product range the company profit will be driven by only 30% of their products, the remaining 70% is sold at cost or loss.

Upp wants to help both local retailers and global multinationals to not only survive in this market but thrive, by enabling them to not only drive revenue more effectively across multiple channels but also to allow businesses to understand their profitability at an individual product level.

 The Upp journey so far:

Upp focused on building their first module, their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. This addressed the challenge with selling products across multiple channels. Retailers can plug into the Upp platform, the platform ingests all of their data effortlessly, it figures out what data is missing using machine learning, it uses image processing to enrich the product data, and it then lists the products on multiple channels intelligently adjusting the listing depending on how that channel works. This allowed products to be listed 40x fast than traditional methods whilst, improving product visibility and increasing sales margins.

As Upp started plugging customers in to their platform, they discovered a more deep-rooted challenge for these businesses. Companies focused on revenue generation as a key business metric and their teams’ performance was measured in this way. Businesses with high revenue figures struggled because they didn’t have visibility of which of their products were selling at a cost or a profit. This is why local independents to global multinational retailers struggle alike to survive, they don’t have visibility of profit margins at a macro level.

Upp are now building a second module, their “Intelligent Margin Hub” to allow retailers to have macro visibility of their data and provide actionable insights.

The Upp mission:

To save retailers, small and large, by giving them access to data and insights that allows them to improve profitability and win more customers.

Company Overview:

Current Snapshot:

Upp is a mission led startup looking to address a core challenge within one of the largest business sectors in the world, online retail. They are focused on developing and constantly improving the two core components of their product.  

Upp has 25 employees based in their London office in Fitzrovia; with large open plan spaces great for collaboration, meetups and product demos, and obviously the obligatory beer fridge. Although the office space is great, it is the culture and sense of purpose that shines through.

For now, Upp is focused on increasing the number of paying customers using their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. Whilst the “Intelligent Margin Hub” is at Beta stage with a small number of businesses.

The company is well funded, in late 2021 Upp will either look to raise their Series B or be profitable. At this point the company will be heavily scaling, both in terms of customers acquisition and hiring within the product engineering function.

 The Product:

Overview:

The Upp platform enables retailers to drive macro business outcomes by combining marketing, ecommerce and business data to win more customers and improve profitability.

 Upp uses machine learning to enrich product titles, attributes and descriptions so they’re found by more consumers. Upp intelligently lists your products on Google Shopping and Amazon 40x faster than traditional methods while improving your product visibility and effectively increasing your sales and margin.

Beyond product listing capabilities, Upp empowers ecommerce and digital marketing teams to make smart online retail decisions, by giving them SKU level margin visibility and providing insights and actions to drive the best results. Upp aligns your teams around the bigger picture by simply connecting silos of data from across the business and helping the team stay focused on profitability.

 Upp currently has two modules:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Taking product information and intelligently optimizing it for Google Shopping to drive revenue and profitability
  • Improving your product visibility by enriching product titles and attributes to ensure your product is seen more and the customer experience improves
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Providing SKU level margin visibility, insights and actions to optimize digital marketing spend and increase profitability
  • Simply connects business and marketing data from the across the business to provide insights and focus on the right metrics

 Product Roadmap for 2020

In 2019 the focus was getting the Listing Engine production ready whilst building starting to build the Margin Hub module. There was also a focus on consolidating and simplifying the architecture and tech stack to allow for both rapid feature development and building reliable, secure code.

The product roadmap for 2020:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Improve/mature current features:
    • Improve the management of products across channels
    • Add in social channels
    • Improving the data enrichment process
    • Introducing more self-service features
  • Continuing to take customer feedback to drive new feature development
  • Focusing on performance and scalability as the customer base grows
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Taking Margin Hub from MVP to Production, whilst onboarding live customers.
  • Integrate into retailers back office platforms
  • Report SKU level margin performance
  • Integrate with external data sources to identify trends
  • Use machine learning to generate “recommend” actions to improve profit margins

Product Engineering:

Team Structure

The Product Engineering function is 20 strong. Drew heads up Product, with a team of Product Owners and Designers. Ben heads up Engineering, leading 3 lean cross-functional teams.

The engineering squads are aligned to the product modules:

  • Intelligent Listing Engine
  • Intelligent Margin Hub
  • Product data – metadata and modelling

Upp has 2 core squads, each squad is a cross functional team that consists of Front and Backend Developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and Data Scientists. Each squad is headed up by a Product Owner and Lead Developer that guide and inspire the squad, Upp describe the PO and Lead Dev, as the CPO and CTO of the squad.

Each squad has their own focused backlog and they work to fortnightly sprints. The features worked on cut across the entire stack. Each squad has their own designer and frontend engineer, but developers will still be able to work full stack and have input into product design. DevOps responsibilities are shared across the squads as well.

The focus for the first half of 2020 is on the product and customer acquisition, the second half of the year will be focused on scaling the product engineering function.

Stack:

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Microservices Architecture, GraphQL, Kafka.
  • Frontend: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Database: MongoDB, Neo4j.
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Lead Developer

Your Role:

You will be taking over as Lead Developer of the Margin Hub team. Margin Hub is in MVP state and the focus is now getting this production ready. Margin Hub will be the largest revenue generator for Upp, so you’ll be taking over a critical part of the platform with a strategic focus from the exec team.

Your role will split between hands on and leadership.

  • 80% hands on – leading on architectural decisions, overseeing execution and being an individual contributor. You will be the technical SME for the team.
  • 20% leadership – line management of the team (monthly meetings, OKR’s) and mentoring the team on technical decision making. This will be closely supported by the Director of Engineering.

You will work closely with the Product Owner to ensure product and engineering are aligned, agree priorities and ensure delivery is on track.

You will also be tasked with owning the architecture and ensuring that Margin Hub is designed and built in a robust and scalable way.

The team are all London based and form a close knit unit.  

What you will be tasked with:

  • You will lead the squad and have overall accountability for the product delivery.
  • You will form a close partnership with the Product Owner to ensure consistency from Product Research/Design to Delivery.
  • Your will inspire the team to challenge what is technically possible and enable those around you.
  • You will educate and mentor the squad on technical decision making, maturing their understanding of trade-offs.
  • You will review the current state of the product and drive technical innovation.
  • You will be able to architect the product with resilience, performance and scalability in mind.
  • You will own the architecture, tech and tooling.

What Upp are looking for in you:

Non-negotiables – soft skills:

  • An interest in product and startups. Working with a small team to take a new offering to market excites you. You understand user needs, market positioning and how that flows into product build.
  • Mission led. Someone who buys into the mission of a company and the problem they are solving. Upp are growing fast and have a tonne of things they need to achieve, they want people that are bought in for the long term and believe in what they’re doing.
  • Pragmatic thinker. You have a structured approach to situations, if you don’t know the answer, you’ll know how to find it out.
  • Open to change. You are able to work in a fast paced environments where priorities can change instantly, and you are able to adjust.
  • Technologist. Someone that understands technology on a deeper level, you will have worked with different architectural patterns and programming languages and understand why different tools work better for different situations.

Non-negotiables – tech skills:

  • Strong experience in Java, Spring and Microservices development.
  • Strong experience on platform integration. Margin Hub needs to integrate with multiple customer platforms. Upp have just invested in Cloud Elements as the key integration tool.  
  • Solid on code quality and testing, and DevOps.
  • Strong on architectural principles, ideally Event Sourcing and CQRS.
  • Ability to mentor others on technical decision making on the Upp tech stack.

 Nice to haves:

  • Experience with Kotlin.
  • Hands on DevOps/infrastructure experience.

What you will achieve in your first six months:

  • Built strong relationships with the team and be the go-to person for help and support.
  • Have led the Margin Hub product to be production ready and have multiple customers on the platform.
  • Have led the architecture and design of the platform, as well as contributed to the codebase.
  • Reviewed and improved aspects of the architecture, stack and tooling.
  • Matured the decision making of the team  and helped make them better engineers.
  • Have recruited strong engineers to join the team.

How your role will evolve:

Upp expect to grow significantly in Q4 2020/Q1 2021, which will means more product teams. The two opportunities this will likely present to you is:

  • Principal Engineer; an overarching role to own the tech stack for Upp.
  • Engineering Manager/Head of; if you would be interested in the people management route.

The Package and Benefits:

  • £90-110,000 basic salary + 10% bonus (paid quarterly)
  • Tech of your choice
  • 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
  • Pension Scheme
  • Free breakfasts, strong coffee, fully stacked fridge with drinks and snacks.
  • Other perks: free mobile phone insurance, cinema discounts, eyecare voucher scheme, employee assistance programme.

Interview process:

1 stage, 1.5 hour interview process