Calling a Lead Software Engineer to join our leading client based in London, for an exciting career opportunity.

This role will be hybrid: 2 days onsite.

The select Lead Software Engineer will be part of an agile cross-functional team in developing and maintaining our client flagship digital platform.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be providing expert technical leadership in the design of our client’s cloud-based platform. You will help define the engineering standards, implement best practice, and contribute to their technical and product roadmap. You will act as a coach and mentor, providing technical leadership to the engineering teams. 

Profile:

You will have a passion and solid experience in designing solutions that are to a high-quality coding standard, secure, scalable, and resilient. to solve business needs.  

You have demonstrable experience in setting the technical direction of the engineering pillar by having a deep understanding of the needs of the organization around you. You influence this direction through a consensus-based approach using your people leadership skills and technical expertise.  

You will have technical experience and knowledge of the following: 

• Expert level experience with software development on the Microsoft tech stack using .NET, ReactJS, REST APIs and Azure services in a microservice architecture 
• Experience with both Azure SQL Server and no SQL DBs such as ComosDB 
• Experience with cloud-based development using Azure services (Service bus, logic App, Function App Azure API Manager) 
• Experience with DevOps automated tooling technology (GIT, Azure DevOps) 
• Excellent practical knowledge of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts and SOLID principles 
• Enthusiastic about delivery and experience working in a fast-paced agile environment 
• Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams 
• Degree/certification in Computer Science/IT or equivalent 

Send your CV ASAP or get in touch for more info.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent permanent opportunity for a PHP Developer with 7 years solid PHP and AWS experience to join the team and to help steer projects in the right direction ensuring success of the company's product and future revenue for the company.

Our client is looking for an experienced PHP developer who has experience with applications running in AWS. Someone that prides themselves in delivering well designed and crafted solutions. You will be the kind of person who loves a challenge and constantly asks if there is a better way to solve a problem. You will advocate adoption of well tested, high quality solutions that adheres to coding standards.

This is a key position within the business that will help steer and shape the future of the company. As such, you will be the kind of person who enjoys refactoring older algorithms in order to drive technology forward with each release.

This is a fully remote role, however travel to Manchester for strategy and team days required quarterly.

Responsibilities:

Design and deliver scalable, flexible, and secure high-performance applications.
Help identify new opportunities and improvements, playing an active role around input into design and functionality decisions.
Develop and maintain the current system applications and webservices/APIs.
Help solve issues with the external partners and internal systems.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and development team to deliver and improve the technology products.
Contribute to continuous improvement of our technical architecture and applications.
Use testing automation and unit tests to improve efficiency and reliability of releases.
Follow Development best practices to design, plan, develop and ship quality and taking responsibility for delivering your work in a timely manner.
Skills:

Knowledge and experience working with modern object-oriented PHP using MVC frameworks such as Symfony or Laravel.
Experience in production applications on Cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS).
Database design skills (MySQL).
Knowledge of web performance and high volume transactional sites and caching.
Knowledge of payment gateways and data security.
Experience using bitbucket or Git as a version control.
Familiarity with Front End technologies like HTML5, CSS3, ES6, React.js
Knowledge of some or all tools and methods such as Composer, Redis, Elasticache, Continuous Integration, TDD.
The ability to contribute high quality code and contribute to peer reviews offering constructive feedback on code style, naming and design.
Strong teamwork and communication skills with technical and non-technical staff.

React Front End Developer
The role: We are looking for a REACT Front End Developer to join our team in the Sheffield office on a permanent basis; ideally with experience of working in the ecommerce industry.
As part of the team, you will be responsible for adding new and exciting front end functionality to our current client base, creating new solutions and implementing large scale ecommerce websites.
The successful candidate will be required to take the lead on front end tasks and be responsible for the delivery of their front end solutions to a wide range of clients. You will be required to work closely with our clients and our internal delivery teams to ensure our solutions meet the business requirements and are delivered to our clients principles, standards and best practices
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
• Build and develop REACT websites/web apps, keeping to project specifications and deadlines
• Implement new features using strong knowledge of JavaScript.
• Develop, test, deploy and maintain valid HTML and CSS mark-up.
• Learn other relevant languages and/or frameworks where required.
• Work collaboratively with other developers to share knowledge and solutions.
• Use, maintain and create in-house documentation to integrate a wide variety of features and functionality
• Providing estimates for the implementation of front end projects.
• Identifying impacts of a given task and challenging business requirements or suggesting alternate solutions where necessary.
• Keeping up to date with technology changes (e.g. trends, software updates, platform updated, 3rd party solutions) and reviewing these for recommendation into new projects or existing clients.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Experience developing medium/large scale react applications
Experience developing medium/large scale react applications
Experience with hybrid react apps (SSR & client-side rendering)
Strong understanding of JavaScript (including modern ES6 syntax)
Experience with JavaScript frameworks and integration with REST
Strong understanding of web fundamentals, including HTML and CSS, browser support and accessibility
Experience with pre-processor CSS languages (sass/less)
Are knowledgeable about modern build and versioning tools, including git, npm/gulp
Strong understanding of mobile-first, responsive and adaptive design

ADDITIONAL/ DESIRABLE SKILLS
• Previous experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Experience developing IBM WebSphere Commerce sites.
• Experience developing Progressive Web Apps.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• Strong communication and time management skills
• Well organised team player
• Desire and drive to progress through the organisation
• Self-motivation
• Confident telephone, workshop and client meeting manner
• Display a positive attitude

Endeavour has an excellent opportunity for a Technical Lead to join our client who utilise the extensive skill set of its experts and maintains a pool of knowledge with its development teams to develop software that delivers business value.

Urgently recruiting for a Technical Lead to join a fast growing team,. Looking for a motivated and forward-thinking professional to help the team to deliver bigger and better digital platforms. With this UK client no project is the same, so look forward to an exciting and diverse opportunity.

As a Technical Lead, your duties will include working with clients to understand the problems they are trying to solve, work with the developers to plan stories, and take the lead throughout the development projects. In this role, you will build relationships across all levels of the organisation and help solve complex challenges by creating innovative business and/or digital enterprise solutions.

You will have the ability to operate in Agile methodologies defining the change needed (in the form of design decisions, project designs, roadmaps and/or technology selection) to meet stated business outcomes and align to the overall IT strategy.

You will be a trusted advisor to the business, often working and driving value on large transformation programmes. Helping the business achieve their vision, it'll be your job to provide technology architecture solution leadership and expertise, throughout all stages of the engagement life cycle. This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact within a supportive and growing company. Above all, you will have a love for digital technologies and the great potential technology can have.

Responsibilities:

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Analysing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.    

Your day:

• Morning stand-ups which you will lead with the Scrum Master ensuring work is planned in and teams know what they need to work on.
• Client management, ensuring any outstanding request In Jira or Teams are reviewed and monitored.
• Planning, continuously advising both internal and external stakeholders about the delivery of the agreed scope using the available resources within the project plan you have laid out at the outset of the work.
• Reports, both in writing and meetings, you will report on the status of all deliverables and results in context of the success criteria defined by you and the client.
• Tracking, ensuring the right amount of efficiency by keeping track of project resource and ensuring priorities are set and agreed with the client.

Requirements:

• Experience leading teams/projects, C#, reactJS, Azure integration services, APIM, ADF, Azure DevOps)
• Experience of working within a regulated industry.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at senior levels, both written and oral, within the business and IT strategy areas.
• Experience of projects with significant integration challenges. Deep understanding of integration approaches and technologies.
• Experience of at least one technical architecture discipline (application, data or infrastructure), some knowledge of others.
• A broad and recognised set of knowledge across the full spectrum of Architecture, including things like; Leadership and ownership of technology solutions, Cloud transformation, Digital transformations, Technology architecture tools and techniques as well as knowledge of TOGAF or equivalent method awareness and real-world experience, Technology domain knowledge and experience. 
• Establishing good relationships with clients and other professionals.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative approach for driving decisions.
• Fluent command of written and spoken English.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
• Experience in working with teams of >= 5 members.

Your Skills:

• Working understanding of life cycle and business processes in a Technical Lead capacity.
• Extensive Business Analysis skills including process mapping and business process reengineering.
• Experience in a number of the following areas: system implementations, change management, user testing management/best practice, training design, and delivery.
• Experience in the technical improvement of new platforms.
• Experience in working on a financial change program is highly desirable.
• Atlassian tools including Jira/Confluence
• Experience in working on complex projects dealing with several processes and applications
• Business analysis qualifications would be beneficial
• Strong communication and stakeholder management experience, as well as working with third-party vendors
• Strong understanding of the technical challenges faced by a global business, able to understand IT analysis and risks in this business context 
• Ability to build successful working relationships with both clients and colleagues and inspire confidence in all directions
• Familiar working with the Google business suite as well as Microsoft 365
• Experience with remote work and using Microsoft Teams
• Stress resistant, proven capability of juggling multiple projects at once
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Passion for anything tech and digital
• Can work UK hours 9am – 6pm

Other Requirements

• The role can be remote or hybrid, working mainly from home using Teams, email and video conferencing for our daily stand-ups with an office space in London which will require the post holder to be motivated, disciplined and able to work under their own initiative. 

The candidate will interact with a variety of teams and individuals both internally and externally, therefore should be a strong communicator (both written and verbal), and an effective team player.

Please get in touch for further details on joining this friendly, professional and approachable team!

Calling for an experienced NODE engineer for an exciting contract opportunity to join a large insurance client.

Fully remote role!

The selected Node engineer will help develop our client’s applications and products.

Our client’s mobile/web products interact deeply with RESTful API backends, knowledge of web application architectures and technologies is a must.

Your role as a Node Engineer will involve:

• Development of our mobile & Web applications, from architecture, to coding, to release.
• Ownership in developing and improving all aspects of our stack (development, testing, CI, automation, and architecture).
• Deploying NodeJS api on aws or onprem servers
• Designing and engineering features that deliver value to the people who use them. This means collaborating closely with the entire team (designers, product managers, etc.).
• Develop NodeJS backend API for App and uploading of documents on Amazon S3
• Design database architecture using SQL.
• Write business logic on nodejs.
• Write re-usable and secure codes

Required skills/experience:

• Technical skills (Proven working experience):

-          Node JS

-          .Net Framework

-          ReactJS

-          SQL Management studio

-          VSCode

-          Bitbucket

-          JIRA

-          NodeJS API

• comfortable working with HTTP-based web services, and have a working knowledge of web application and API architectures.
• Have knowledge on NodeJs, .NET, RestAPIs, AWS, S3, Linux
• Previous history of working with a remote, distributed team.
• Work with tools including Jira, GitHub, Google Docs, bitbucket, Confluence
• Have a good knowledge of AWS deployment and S3
• Able to start development with minimum amount of information

Please apply by sending us your Cv or get in touch ASAP for further details on this excellent contract opportunity!

Full Stack Developer / C# / Azure / React / Azure Integration Services / Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Manager

 Cand Rate £300 - £350 per day

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic opportunity for Full Stack Developer to join our client based in Central London. The role is currently remote. Our client is going through a major digitalization program and upgrade with a Four Year Road Map.

They are building their Development team, hiring the best candidates on the market to build efficient, elegant lasting code. We need people with a strong track record in Full Stack, C#, .NET, React, JavaScript, DevOps, Azure, API and Agile. You will be comfortable working across front-end and back-end technology stacks.

We are also looking for you to have strong interpersonal skills to be able to deal with internal customers, understand their requirements, create solutions and to influence business stakeholders.

Skills and Technologies Used:

•             DevOps

•             Agile (ideally Scrum or Kanban).

•             Development experience

•             C#, ASP, .NET

•             MVC, and Web API / RESTful.

•             Azure

•             JavaScript

•             React

•             Redux.

•             Source Control GIT.

•             Cloud technologies and the use of DevOps tools

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a team of inspiring Developers and to make a real life difference.

React Developer

We have an exciting opportunity for a React Front End Developer to join our client, a market leader in the booking industry.

We are looking for a front end developer with React JavaScript and restful. Legacy systems are in PHP, so knowledge of this would be desirable, but not essential.

This is a key position within the business that will help steer and shape our future. As such, you will be the kind of person who enjoys driving our technology forward with each release. You will actively contribute to our Technical Architecture and Roadmap.  In addition to maintaining and enhancing our existing applications, there will be plenty of opportunity for working on greenfield projects.

What you’ll be doing:

·               Work with Back-end Developers to design and develop our web-sites, partner white labels, web services and APIs.

·               Deliver high-quality, high conversion rate solutions that provide an intuitive workflow for internal users and external customers.

·               Collaborate on application architecture, design and UX to develop solutions that are usable, accessible and make a strong visual impact.

·               Ensure your code is secure and efficient and that it will meet capacity demands

·               Contribute to continuous improvement of our our Technical Architecture.

·               Use automation to improve efficiency and reliability of releases.

·               Follow Development best practices to design, plan, develop and ship good code

·               Represent the development team with internal and external customers

·               Speak up and contribute ideas to progress and increase the success of the business.

·               Take responsibility for delivering your projects in a timely manner

·               Enjoy communicating plans and progress clearly via Teams, Jira, Email etc.

Skills:

·               Solid knowledge and experience of delivery and development leveraging React, JavaScript (ES6), HTML & CSS

·               Restful Api

·               Practical understanding of UI/UX design concepts. 

·               Produced your own and worked with agency wireframes, mockups and prototypes

·               Methodical approach to Cross-browser/multi-device coding

·               Strong knowledge of web page performance optimisation

·               Experience using Git as a version control system in a team context

·               Experience working on multilingual applications.

·               Understanding of front end automation and testing frameworks.

·               The ability to contribute high quality code and contribute to peer reviews offering constructive feedback on code style, naming and design.

·               Strong teamwork and communication skills with technical and non-technical staff.

·               Great problem solving and organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.

·               Experience writing clear specifications from gathered requirements and breaking down projects into simple tasks that can be delegated to keep all business priorities moving forwards.

Experience working with and helping improve PHP APIs developed by Backend team would be desirable, but not essential. Full Stack Development experience would also be desirable.

What we offer:

·               Full-time role, with six weeks annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

·               Company share scheme, so the opportunity exists to own equity in the business by actively contributing towards the company exceeding its growth targets and ambitions

·               Flexibility to work remotely

·               Pension Scheme (once passed probation)

·               Flexible hours

·               Relaxed atmosphere

Endeavour has a fantastic career opportunity for a driven Front-end developer to strengthen our Defence and Security client’s team, based in Bristol.

The ideal candidate will be a creative, autonomous and tech savvy developer focusing on producing scalable software solutions within the development team.

The successful Front-end Developer will be part of a cross-functional team, responsible for the design of new products with your focus on the development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

Essential required skills/experience:

• A minimum of 3 years’ recent and relevant experience
• Experience of being part of a development team
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• In depth knowledge and experience of in Node.js
• Multiple front-end languages and libraries experience (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Experience of front-end frameworks (such as vue, bootstrap, reactjs, angular)
• Familiarity with common stacks - specific experience of the TICK stack
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organisational skills
• An analytical, inquisitive mind

Important! Due to the nature of our client’s business, we can only consider applicants eligible to go through a security vetting process.

Please don’t delay and apply today, or contact us for more info on this exciting permanent opportunity!

 Are you a passionate Full-Stack Developer who enjoys to be challenged?

Are you looking to be part of a team where your skills will be maximised and developed to help you reach the next step in your career?

Our client, a well-established and ambitious Digital Marketing and Web Development Agency, based in Buckinghamshire, is looking for an experienced Full Stack Developer to join them on their exciting journey and the next phase of their development.

In you role as a Full-Stack developer, you will be required to take on the following key tasks:

• Build complex responsive websites from scratch that looks identical to the provided design.
• Debug code that may have been produced by other developers.
• Write bespoke code from scratch as well as working within established frameworks such as WordPress, jQuery and Bootstrap.
• Meet and communicate clearly and professionally with customers. Sometimes translating technical subjects so that non-technical people can understand.
• Manage time and projects to ensure that deadlines are met.
• Identify possible issues within the development of a project and raise these problems with your manager.
• Write detailed and accurate scoping documents that clearly explain what we will be doing in that project.
• Provide accurate time estimates for potential work.

The successful Developer will have the following demonstrable skills/experience:

• Expert knowledge of PHP, HTML and CSS.
• Expert knowledge and highly experienced in WordPress CMS development.
• Good knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap.
• Understanding of FTP, DNS, Name Servers, Domains and Email.
• Able to develop fully mobile responsive websites.

Other desirable/beneficial skills include:

• Good knowledge of SASS and SQL Server.
• Understanding of CLI.
• Understanding of how to use Adobe Photoshop CC and Microsoft Office.
• Familiarity of React JS and Gutenberg.
• Understanding of popular WordPress plugins such as Gravity Forms, Advanced Custom Fields, WP Rocket, Imagify, Divi Builder, Elementor and WP Bakery.

Apply ASAP! This is an opportunity for the right developer to become an integral part of a successful, growing agency where promotion/career progression is a real prospect.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a BAM UI developer to work for an international technology giant in Brussels, Belgium. This duration of this role is 10 months and the daily all-inclusive rate is €480 euros.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• NodeJS, Npm, ExpressJS
• ReactJS  or similar frameworks such as VueJS or AngularJS
• Redux/Mobx
• HTML5/CSS3
• Less/Sass
• ES 5/6/7/8/Next
• ESLint
• Gulp, Webpack
• Babel
• Knowledge on Xml, Json
• Knowledge on Swagger API, REST API
• Knowledge on GraphQL
• Versioning Git

Preferred Skills and Knowledge and Candidate Profile

• Power Builder dashboard development
• Testing tools : Nightwatch/Jest/Enzyme/Mocha…
• D3/C3 or Highchart
• Good usage of UI/X
• Some knowledge on  Sketch/Photoshop
• Typescript
• Good understanding of µService design
• Basic knowledge of Unix
• Good level of English (speaking and writing)
• Team player
• Experience to work with scrum methodology
• Good communication skills

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.