Hi All,
See below for a round-up of some of the recent opportunities we have
been sent.
Regards,
Joe
FundingKnight
FundingKnight are looking for a junior developer to join our programming team.
FundingKnight are a disruptive Peer to Business (P2B) lending company, arranging loans
from groups of individuals (who might have as little as 5 pounds to invest) to UK
businesses looking to borrow between 50-150k pounds. Our business model combines an
emphasis on human contact with our borrowers, and a self-service web solution for lenders
(albeit with a human available at the end of a phone for those who need it.)
Our platform is, therefore, the core of what we do. A set of business engines handle all
the core business information, abstracting it away from the backend MySQL into a set of
APIs. The front-end calls those APIs and turns them into a web page suitable for the
customer's device.
This is handling real money for real people - testing is a critical part of what we do,
and the junior developer will be someone looking to get experience across all the aspects
of developing a site, not just the code-cutting silo - so testing, code promotion, and
documentation will be as big a part of your role as coding.
You'll be passionate about writing code, though it's more important that you
understand things like abstraction and big-O notation than it is that you have
language-specific experience in the tools we use - PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, JQUI and
HighCharts.
Our Chief Programmer was at New College, where she read Engineering Science, and our CTO
at Balliol, where he read Maths/Comp (as it was back then), so we're keen to talk to
candidates from a range of analytical backgrounds, not just those who've studied CS.
This is a back-office type role, where jeans and T-shirts, rather than suits and ties, are
expected 90% of the time, and where you'll be interviewed by the people you'll be
working with as much (or more) than the person you'll be working for.
The development office is based a little south of Gatwick in West Sussex, and you'll
be expected to be there most of the time in your first few weeks with the business.
However, we are keen to promote remote working, (after those first few weeks), so we'd
certainly consider someone whose intention was to remain Oxford-based long-term.
Please apply with a CV and a covering email to the CTO - mark(a)fundingknight.com - the CV
can be in any reasonably common format - Word, OpenOffice, PDF, link to a web page..
Social Entrepreneurship Society Web Course
<See attached webcourseinfo.docx>
AKQA Technology Graduate Role applications now open
The AKQA Technology Graduate Programme is tailored to each person we hire, in line with
your skills, passions and aspirations. The Programme covers 12 months and is made up of
four three-month rotations in the core disciplines of Web Development, Software
Engineering, Mobile, Quality Assurance, the final rotation being in a mutually agreed
specialism.
As an AKQA Technology Graduate you'll be immersed in exciting projects from day one,
because we believe that the best way to learn is by doing. You'll spend time
developing a blend of specialist knowledge and entrepreneurial skills. This understanding
will provide a platform for you to advance the discipline, make an enduring and positive
contribution to society, our clients and AKQA.
Applications for this programme are now open, and close on 31st December. Please register
your interest here:
http://www.akqa.com/careers/london/technology/technology-graduate/
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Joe Fowler
President - Oxford University Computer Society
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