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Graduate Positions at Kani Payments: Full Stack Developer

THE COMPANY

Kani is Europe’s Leading Financial Services Start-up (awarded by the Emerging Payments Association) and one of the top 20 new technology companies in the UK according to TechNation.  Providing Software as a Service (SaaS) to the rapidly growing Financial Technology (FinTech) market & based in Newcastle upon Tyne, we are seeking a talented Business Intelligence (BI) Developer / Data Analyst to join our team.

Our objective is to provide an out-of-the-box solution that simplifies the complex back office technology and processes needed to manage Mastercard, Visa and other card issuing portfolios and mobile payment products.

We are a small but rapidly growing team with global aspirations.

THE ROLE

Permanent/Full-time

Location – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (other locations via remote working will be acceptable for the right candidate)

Salary – 28-35K

We are seeking a talented .Net/C# Full Stack developer to join our team, developing a variety of modules for our SaaS platform using technologies such as

  • Angular front end
  • .Net Core back end
  • Microservice Architecture (Currently Service Fabric, moving to Kubernetes)
  • SQL Server
  • Microsoft VSTS for Git and CI/CD
  • Frontend technologies including AngularJS/Angular 6, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be responsible for:

  • Writing high quality, maintainable code that is easy to read and test
  • Identifying and improving areas of our code base that could be made more efficient, more secure, or easier to maintain
  • Carrying out code reviews with our Lead Developer and other developers, actively reviewing other team member’s code to underpin good development practices
  • Creating system components from scratch to help us expand our client offering and to fulfil business requirements.
  • Actively contributing to planning meetings, including advising on the product backlog, and sizing user stories
  • Engaging with internal teams and external stakeholders to fully understand business requirements and deliver an exceptional product
  • Staying up to speed on emerging development techniques and technologies, and suggesting improvements to our development stack

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

The person filling this role will have:

  • A proven track record of creating commercial, flexible Angular applications with C#
  • Creating responsive front-end applications
  • Front-end frameworks and libraries like AngularJS/Angular +
  • Experience designing SQL Server databases and writing efficient, optimised queries & stored procedures
  • Version and code management, (we use AzureDevOps and Git)

It’s not essential but would help if you have

  • Understanding of star-schema databases and data warehousing
  • Understanding and experience of implementing microservices
  • Prior experience working with cloud hosting environments, particularly Microsoft Azure

SALARY AND BENEFITS

  • £28,000 – £35,000 depending on experience
  • Subscription to PluralSight
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote working available
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Data Engineer (Python / Web Services / Big Data)

The Organisation:

The company is a big data technology firm based in the Software Centre at Sunderland.  We have developed a unique software product helping close the skills gap between industry and education.  We put right information in front of decision makers in education, government and private sector firms – helping them design curriculum, recruit, retain and train staff with the right skills in the right locations. 

The Role:

The organisation is keen to recruit a talented Data Engineer to help further develop their back-end data crawlers and python machine learning services running on Google cloud.  If you are currently in a tech consultancy or agency but looking for a product-based role then this would be the perfect opportunity for you. 

You will help scale out our data processing pipeline by adding lots of new data sources and improving our algorithms for clustering and classifying data, gaining experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithm development and not be afraid of taking on new challenges and languages when needed.

Any experience in the following would be an advantage but if you have other skillsets we can still have a conversation if you are willing to learn:

  1. Data Crawling, Web services, API integration, REST, JSON.
  2. Python, Flask or other related technology stack a must.
  3. Data Modelling experience in SQL and NoSQL a plus.
  4. Cloud services experience a plus on any cloud infrastructure.
  5. Unix/Linux/Python skills to a good level.

You will work with a talented team of Consultants and tech experts and be part of the growing team creating cutting edge technology.  Get in touch with support@geektalent.com to book an interview with your CV or linkedin profile details.

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Software Developer (.NET / JavaScript / Big Data)

The Organisation:

The company is a big data technology firm based in the Software Centre at Sunderland.  We have developed a unique software product helping close the skills gap between industry and education.  We put right information in front of decision makers in education, government and private sector firms – helping them design curriculum, recruit, retain and train staff with the right skills in the right locations. 

The Role:

The organisation is keen to recruit a talented Software Developer to help further develop their web services and full-stack software systems from .NET/Azure hosted web services through to back end data crawlers and python machine learning services running on Google cloud.  If you are currently in a tech consultancy or agency but looking for a product-based role then this would be the perfect opportunity for you. 

You will help build our Web and Mobile application stack out and gain experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithm development and not be afraid of taking on new challenges and languages when needed.

Any experience in the following would be an advantage but if you have other skillsets we can still have a conversation if you are willing to learn:

  1. .NET front end with Angular JavaScript skills are essential
  2. Web services, API integration, REST, JSON
  3. Any mobile dev on native or IONIC frameworks helpful
  4. Data Modelling experience in SQL and NoSQL a bonus
  5. Unix/Linux/Python skills to any level a bonus.

You will work with a talented team of Consultants and tech experts and be part of the growing team creating cutting edge technology.  Get in touch with support@geektalent.com to book an interview with your CV or linkedin profile details.

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Technology Placements with IBM – apply now

IBM opened at 9am today for applications to their ‘Technology’ roles. Last year, some of their roles opened and closed on the same day as they were inundated with applications and they expect a similar level of experience this year. The initial application is very short and straightforward and should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.

If you miss the deadline, you can still register your interest on their website to stay informed of all future opening dates. In order to deliver the best candidate experience, IBM are aiming for successful applicants to receive an offer within 4 weeks of submitting their application. To achieve this their placement roles will be opening periodically over the academic year, giving students up to 1 week to submit their initial application.

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Web / Front End Developer at Tharsus

As a developer at Tharsus, you’ll work with great people to develop software with global reach. We are passionate about creating brilliant solutions to challenging problems, while giving opportunities for everybody to learn and apply their skills in an exciting business environment. We are genuinely excited to be growing a world beating digital business here in the North East of England.

As a key member of this team, you’ll be instrumental in developing web, cloud and database solutions to manage and deliver our data analytics services to customers. You’ll have freedom to create as we develop software together.

About Us

Tharsus is a great place to work, with outstanding people and brilliant opportunities. We seek brilliant solutions to problems, thinking creatively and working together. We’re building a diverse team and a truly exciting digital business, to develop data analytics solutions. We are actively and rapidly growing in the coming year.

About You

You’ll love programming and have outstanding technical skills, as well as be eager to work in a growing business environment, surrounded by great people. You’ll be comfortable with the unknown, relish a challenge, be eager to learn and keen to be an integral part of a brilliant team shaping the business.

You’ll keep up with the latest advancements in your field, including both hardware and software. You’ll have one ear to the ground in relation to libraries, frameworks and other services that could aid your working process.

You’ll take pride in conceiving and building brilliant, scalable and resilient software and also believe strongly in test driven development and continuous delivery.

You’ll seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge and be keen to learn from, and teach others, whether they be in our office, at conferences or online.

We need you to have:

  • Web development projects that you are proud of
  • A track record of getting stuff done
  • Experience with UI / UX design
  • Experience with JavaScript

It’ll be great if you do have:

  • Experience with using cloud services like Azure
  • Experience with relational databases
  • Experience in server side programming languages like Python or C# and version control
  • Degree in Computer Science or related field

What you’ll do and learn

You’ll get exposure to, and learn about, many aspects of the business as you develop web based solutions for our data analytics services. You’ll be key in architecting and shaping our solutions as you apply your skills to delight customers. We’ll genuinely encourage and support you to grow your technical skills, so that we’re sure that together we are always delivering brilliant products.

Apply here