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Hawkr: Graduate Software Engineer

Hawkr are a cutting edge digital media advertising specialist building innovative, scalable, and market leading software for the digital out of home advertising industry.

We are a small, specialist team based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, working with over 25+ clients across the UK and Europe and expanding – client trips included Paris, Milan and Vegas last year!

The Hawkr system allows our clients to remotely access and control 100’s of digital advertising screens and update media content including images, videos and live content such as RSS, Twitter feeds, youtube channels, and much more.

Utilising the latest web technologies, we are building on our core 100% API based product to expand our offering with facial recognition using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Due to the nature of the product, maintenance is minimal and the development of new features is rapid with continuous improvements to the software and hardware.
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The Year in Industry (YINI) Scheme – Opportunity within Computer Science in London

The Year in Industry (YINI), part of the Engineering Development Trust (EDT), is a not for profit organisation offering Undergraduate students a free extra resource when searching for year out, paid placements as part of their degree studies. Candidates placed through the YINI scheme have access to additional mentor support, one day master classes and industrial accreditation. We work with partner companies all over the UK and have received the following opportunity:

Company Overview

This company develops a range of cloud-based enterprise solutions to make business activities simpler and more efficient.

We aim to develop software with exceptional usability, rich functionality and strong integration capabilities. Our solutions aim to drive the efficient communication and collaboration of business information, and our current solutions are aimed at allowing local government to deliver excellent customer service.

Job Description

The Year in Industry (YINI) scheme have two 12-month Placement opportunities commencing Sept 2018 ideally suited to students studying Computer Science with an interest in programming, ideally with experience with PHP and JavaScript.

Department: Development Team

Across the locations: London

Salary: £15,000 TBC

APPLY direct to YINI now for consideration

We are looking for highly motivated applicants to become members of our development team. The placement will involve the candidate in the development and maintenance of new and existing solutions. Through this they will become skilled in our development environment and involved in our product release cycle.

Ideal candidates are likely to have a background in computing, they will be scientifically minded and have a desire to increase their technical proficiency.

From a technical perspective, successful candidates will be given the opportunity to work with various web technologies such as PHP, JavaScript, Drupal, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and .Net languages. We also have our own development language.

As a member of the development team you will also have some responsibility in supporting our current customers and solving queries that they might have regarding our products.

To Apply:

  1. Complete an online application via http://www.etrust.org.uk/the-year-in-industry/apply-now
  2. Email your interest to Lidia Harrington on harrington@etrust.org.uk

Please note that you will need to be registered with the YINI scheme to apply for placements (you can register by using the link above).

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Junior Developer – Newcastle

GCSEPod – A ground-breaking Education Publishing company are looking to grow their digital team to help them realise their product and platform’s potential. Founded in Newcastle, the company is Multi award-winning and at the forefront of EdTech.  It has broken the mould and challenged convention in the sector. The product currently delivers learning materials to over 1000 schools in 22 countries and to in excess 280,000 pupils; It employs 25 people in central Newcastle.

This position is perfect for a developer who:

  • feels they are ready for new challenges and to apply skills learnt at University
  • wants to learn, experience and utilise new skills on a day-to-day basis
  • can be a key part of a team that takes full control of a product from start to finish

As we look to grow out our suite of products, based on a common platform and under a unifying brand, the right developer will have both the skills and the personality to be part of this journey and must be ready for the exciting challenges this will bring. You should have a great interest in development and the challenges it can lead to. Your role would be to form part of a highly-skilled development team (currently 2 senior developers), involved in new product development as well as implementing new features and maintaining existing code, that will enable the business to grow at an unparalleled rate maintaining its lead in the industry. The business environment is young, energetic and vibrant where colleagues are collaborative and collegiate in their approach.

We need you to:

  • have an interest in web technologies
  • have an understanding of OOP principles and common software design patterns
  • have a basic understanding of SQL and PHP
  • have an understanding of software testing and TDD
  • have an understanding version control, ideally with Git
  • work with the existing development team and colleagues throughout the business to resolve support tickets and develop new functionality
  • be confident and self-motivated, willing to suggest new methods, tools or ideas where appropriate

Other beneficial skills are:

  • a working knowledge of Linux command line interface
  • an understanding of website security issues
  • an understanding of front-end development
  • a familiarity with Javascript and the jQuery library
  • a familiarity with CSS/SASS

Other benefits are:

  • Supporting the successful candidate with training budget to develop skills and knowledge

Details to apply. Please send your CV & cover letter to David Silburn, Software Development Consultant at: david.silburn@gcsepod.com

 

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GloverSure Graduate Recruitment Programme

GloverSure are seeking graduate software/web developers to join our Graduate scheme located at our offices in Welshpool and in Chester.

*WHAT WE OFFER*

The successful candidate(s) will be able to undertake a range of projects; including bespoke PHP web development both frontend and backend, software maintenance, mobile app development and ecommerce development using Magento before having the option to specialise in a specific area if they wish or stay more general. We offer a fast-paced, creative and fun office environment, Great opportunities to make the role your own and get involved with exciting projects.

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Placement vacancy: Designer for Arts & Digital Production

Designer for arts & digital production company

Salary – Competitive

We specialise in exploring how digital technologies can be used to innovate approaches to art production, creative particpation and learning worldwide.

Job

­       To create user focused designs for applications across web, tablet and mobile platforms

­       To contribute to the design and development of new engaging digital products and services

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