Developer

Developer – Back-end

Engie is working with North Tyneside Council on an extensive programme of change, the aim of which is to make the council’s online services easier for the borough’s residents and businesses to use.

Working as part of a multi-organisation, multi-disciplinary agile team, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of a range of modern back-end services.

This is a permanent, full-time role working 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, and on offer is a salary of £25,000 to £34,000 per annum, dependant on skills and experience.

This role will be based at North Tyneside Council, The Silverlink North, Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside, NE27 0BY.

What are we looking for?

You should have experience within one or more of the following areas:

  • Developing within modern cloud-based infrastructures, such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.
  • Developing service-based back-end platforms, exposed through Restful/RPC/GraphQL APIs.
  • Developing web-services in Python or similar.
  • Working with SQL and NoSQL databases (we primarily use MySQL), and in-memory storage (Memcached and Redis).
  • Developing using CI/CD pipelines, and deploying to the likes of Docker, Kubernetes, or Google App Engine.

Qualifications

A first/higher degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or 1-5 years’ experience delivering back-end services.

Applying for this role

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. Engie do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications for all sections of the community.

To apply for this role, send your CV to simon.smith@northtyneside.gov.uk

NASA International Space Apps Challenge at the University of York

For the fifth year running the University of York is hosting NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge!

What is NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge? 

NASA is on a mission to foster innovation around challenges affecting us at home and in space. As one of the world’s largest international annual hackathons, we designed Space Apps for problem solvers like you. This 48-hour event inspires citizen teamwork for positive change across every skill level and discipline.

We invite engineers, coders, makers, artists and storytellers to connect over mission-related challenges. The growing Space Apps community represents the core of NASA’s Open Innovation Initiative. Together, citizens like you have developed thousands of open-source solutions. Your big ideas are shaped using data visualizations, hardware, code, design and more!

The Hackathon is free to attend, with free food and drink and prizes for the best projects at a local, national, and international level. Form a group and join us for a weekend of frantic coding!
More information on the event can be found here

This year’s challenges can be found here

You can sign up to take part at York here

Space Apps 2017 Poster

Graduate Recruitment Bureau

Hi Newcastle students,

The Graduate Recruitment Bureau (GRB) have been helping students at Newcastle find Graduate Jobs, Internships  and Student Jobs for over 17 years.

Your course is a really strong and in-demand field with our current employers so as an official representative  I’ve been looking to get more students with your skills registered to this brilliant free service!

You can register in just 30 seconds using the following link, what have you got to lose? http://www.grb.uk.com/sbm/9147

Good luck!

Taylan Gul, working as a GRB representative

http://www.grb.uk.com/sbm/9147