Full Stack Engineer, QuantSpark
£40-50k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Blackfriars Rd, London)
Data analytics services consultancy
Open for applications
Data analytics services consultancy
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£40-50k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Blackfriars Rd, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
QuantSpark's mission is to help governments and businesses solve critical strategic problems using data-driven processes, including understanding and analysing data from disparate systems, and building decision-support tools on the basis of those insights.
Role
Who you are
- At QuantSpark, we value growth and learning, and are looking for individuals to join our team who can work both autonomously and collaboratively with our internal team and clients
- One to three years progressive full-stack engineering experience
- 1 year programming with Django and/or Flask on the backend
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external teams
- Commercial experience in Python programming with Flask or Django with JavesScript or TypeScript (ideally React) experience
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code and documentation, following best practices and coding standards
- Experience with RESTful APIs
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- You take accountability and can work both independently and within a team
- Creating a user interfaces for web applications
- Familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB
Desirable
- Experience with AWS services
- Strong experience in unit testing, TDD
- Experience in code management (Git, pip)
- A keen eye for good user interface design and user experience
- Experience with Python packages used for data science (familiarity with Pandas, Numpy, Scikit, Tensorflow)
- Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- Reports to: Engineering Manager
- As a Full Stack Engineer, you will build and support well-designed, tested, and scalable web applications using your skills in both frontend and backend development
- You will work both on the backend (e.g., Python/API endpoints) and frontend (e.g., TypeScript/React) features
- You have direct, commercial experience working with python programming with Django and/or Flask
- You will support the development of client-facing functionality, such as web applications, from detailing requirements, designing, and developing a solution to testing and validating that the solution does match user expectations
- In this role, you will provide technical support and upkeep of existing infrastructure, identify, and diagnose software issues, and assist in maintaining and upgrading applications as needed, while learning alongside senior engineers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
QuantSpark helps governments and businesses to strategically apply data science through the development of complex decision-making software. Primarily, their work involves analysing large datasets and systems in order to understand customer behaviour and help clients make informed decisions for strategic planning in sales and marketing.
In recent years, big data has become central to the operation of businesses large and small, and this has led to great demand for data scientists fluent in sophisticated modelling and analysis. QuantSpark seeks to go a step further, providing a service which combines data science with commercial insight- effectively providing both services through one transaction. By doing this, QuantSpark hopes to offer clients a more meaningful insight into their data than a standard consultancy could.
They already have an impressive client list, including the UK Government, the Australian Government and Bain Capital. QuantSpark's tools and solutions are developed to become embedded in their clients' operations, ensuring a long-lasting relationship between them, and meaning that, as QuantSpark continues to expand its client base, its model should allow it to see continued success in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
32% female employees
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"From day 1, I was given clear direction for where I can grow within QuantSpark and communication around development has been open and transparent,..."
Company benefits
- £6000 yearly training budget
- Opportunity to work from abroad for 20 days per year
- Flexible working between our core hours of 10am - 5pm
- EMI Share Options Scheme
- Generous pension contributions
- Top tier Private Healthcare with Vitality
- Optional monthly socials, dinners, and fun nights out
- Opportunity to work on social impact & pro bono strategy projects
- A fully stocked supply of breakfast, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office
- 33 days total holiday
Company values
- Diversity
- Analytical Rigour
- Teamwork
- Entrepreneurialism
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Adam Hadley
(CEO)With Master's degrees from Oxford and KCL, Adam divides their time between running QuantSpark and Tech Against Terrorism- the world's preeminent NGO helping to tackle terrorists' use of the internet.
People progressing
Anastasia is our Head of People and Operations. Anastasia joined the business as EA to Adam, our CEO, and quickly built out a department of her own which continues to expand.
After 1.5 years, Sophie was promoted to a Lead role and then established a Product department, expanded to 5 PMs, 2 new specialist skillsets, and fostered promotions within her team.
Daniel joined us as a Data Analyst in 2019 and now leads the Analytics Engineering Team and is an integral part of the business.
Diversity & Inclusion at QuantSpark
Amber Harrison (Talent & People Specialist)
- Females make up 32% of our business, which is higher than the UK national average within the tech/data industries at 26%. We are intent on steering away from token hiring (for all under privileged groups), and instead focus on ensuring a fair and inclusive hiring strategy and process to offer equal opportunity to all.
- We use gender neutral language within all our job descriptions.
- We write job description requirements as minimally as possible (5 essential) to encourage candidates, who may exclude themselves, to apply.
- We are transparent with our salary bandings to encourage everyone to feel empowered in their negotiations, and to ensure parity with our existing teams.
- We ensure a fair and consistent interview process, ensuring all candidates are assessed on the same required skills, which are related to job performance and have a positive intent.
- We utilise diversity and inclusion data to pinpoint areas of improvement to our hiring process.
- Where possible, we aim for candidates to meet a wide and diverse interview panel, to ensure we have a variety of perspectives when hiring.
- We have a flexible approach to our interview process, utilising video interviews and take-home assessments. We aim to increase the variety of our assessment styles, to offer fair opportunity to all types of candidates.
Share this job
View 7 more jobs at QuantSpark