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  • look at 'find hiring managers advice' on LinkedIn

2025-11-06

  • James, FDM: 0113 331 5033

  • looking for full stack by beginning Dec

2025-08-18

2025-08-05

  • Java, Bootle

  • spoke to Melanie: t: 01782 970843, Email: 965258.apps.jsve@smartsourcing.co.uk charity commission, tues on site 2 roles complaint site + back end app lots of perm, bit stuck in their ways mix of levels cv thurs, interview thurs or fri. bpss, wont reactivate sc if lapsed.

2025-08-04

  • Senior Java Developer - Liverpool - Hybrid/2 Days on site in Bootle, Liverpool 510 pd Inside IR35 - 6 months

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Currently we are recruiting for a Senior Java Developer to join one of our clients for a 6 month contract. This role is inside IR35 and offering market rates. They are based in Liverpool and need someone who can work Bon a hybrid basis.
    As an experienced full stack Senior Java Developer, you will support the organisation in delivering new online form as digital services. This role will focus on building dynamic, user-friendly web forms that align with GDS standards and ensure accessibility, security, and performance.
    As the Senior Java Developer, you will work closely with colleagues across the directorate, within the Software Development team and alongside other full-stack developers, delivery mangers, user researchers and test engineers.
    Our client is particularly interested in candidates who have experience working on UK government digital services and are familiar with the GDS style and standards. They also want someone who has experience of building dynamic forms with Java Spring Boot, as this would be highly beneficial for the role.
    Experience Required:
    Proficient in Java, Spring Boot MVC, jQuery, and Spring Framework.
    Strong experience with JSON and Thymeleaf
    Proficient in RESTful API development with Postman, SWAGGR.
    Familiarity with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines.
    Experience with Ingress, cookie/session management, and secure web application practices.
    Knowledge of GDS Themes, design principles and accessibility standards.
    Proficient in unit testing using JUnit and handling POJOs and mock data
    Understanding of microservices and distributed systems.
    Experience in public sector or GDS compliant environments (Desirable)
    Familiarity with containerisation (eg, Docker, AKS, Kubernetes) (Desirable)
    Exposure to Front End frameworks (eg React, Angular) is a plus (Desirable)
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  • Abdul Ali, Black Tide Partners

  • Email: abul@blacktidepartners.com

  • Call: +44 117 205 0509 or + 44 791 398 2112

  • https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4270464428/

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  Python Engineer (Django/Flask) – Remote
    Role Highlights:
    Position: Python Engineer
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Permanent
Compensation: Competitive market salary plus equity options
    Overview: An innovative EdTech start-up is seeking a skilled Python Engineer to join their team. This company is changing education with an AI-driven platform that aligns with the UK National Curriculum, ensuring child-safe content and advanced safeguarding features.
    Key Responsibilities:
    Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Django and Flask frameworks.
Design and implement RESTful APIs to support web and mobile applications.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
Ensure the robustness and scalability of applications through testing and code reviews.
Integrate MongoDB for data storage solutions as needed.
Participate in agile development processes and contribute to continuous improvement.
    Qualifications:
    Proven experience as a Python Developer with expertise in Django and Flask.
Familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases is a plus.
Strong understanding of software development principles and best practices.
Experience with version control systems like Git.
Ability to work independently in a remote setting and manage time effectively.
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
    Why Join Us?
    Be part of a mission-driven company that's making a tangible impact on children's education.
Enjoy the flexibility of remote work while collaborating with a passionate and innovative team.
Opportunity to grow with the company and take on increased responsibilities.
Competitive compensation package with equity options.
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2025-07-30

Gaurav, needs https://www.langchain.com/

2025-07-24

2 contract applications from jobserve: Python London and Leeds.

2025-07-22

  • Venkatesh, inside 2 days in Bradford, 500

2025-07-16

  • No go from Henry on CapGemini:

“Tim is an experienced IT professional with a development background, however, he doesn’t have the leadership or extent of cloud native experience to align with his anticipated grade (salary expectations).”

2025-07-10

2025-07-03

Quick updates

  • Venkatesh Colleti

  • Henry Clay‑Davies Cap Gemini, see whether they will consider lapsed SC on Fri 4th Recruitment Consultant | Searchability National Security & Defence t: 0161 416 6800 | m: 07719065951

2025-07-02

Interview for Aire Logic Clinicals team

Questions: - metrics? DORA - Throughput: Change lead time, Deployment frequency - Stability: Change fail rate, Mean time to detect / recover - Dev tools: poetry or uv? - API: contract first? - AI where do you see this fitting (now or in the future)?

  • Matt dean, tech lead on NRL

  • Eliz Williams product Louisa Hayford casely eng lead

  • Jaladindu Das

  • national record locator

  • serverless, API

  • no front end provided, somem involvement

NDOC opt out

NDOX: covid prefs serverless, react,

one team, three prods

gateway route to each lambda - also nextjs

aws firehose, athena

apogee

flask

fire, HL7: healthcare standards tfsec, trivy -

splunk

metrics - api so - kpis quarterly - no dora yet

2025-06-24

interview

imaging

Dan Jones - tech lead? Jim - 'lowly' dev Kira Pennington - delivery lead

Share imaging agnostic platform - access anywhere permissions level exiting alpha

MRI and CT scalability 40Gb for single scan 200Mb single doc

can we scale to national legacy and new standards (IHE XDE and XDS SOAP) MHDS RESTful interop std

AWS, python API gateway & Lambdas - wont work

size of team - these 3 + 1 more dev + BA coming on board

Prep

  • Agile

  • scrum ceremnioes

  • AireInnovate

  • Cyber Essentials Plus

API gateway

Questions: - Dev tools: poetry or uv? - API: contract first? - AI where do you see this fitting (now or in the future)?

Questions

Dom Linfield - Brio

  • Aire logic - consultancy

  • 30 years, 80% NHS England and Wales + education & gov

  • https://www.airelogic.com/

  • employee owned

  • grown 10 → 300. act as internal recruitment

  • strong python + devops api gateway, s3, lambda, k8s, terraform

  • programme: "Clinicals"

  • connect 111, gps,

  • some front end but strong backend

  • tech transformation: 'sporadic', simplify, consolidate

  • dynamodb

  • duration: end sept or end dec (15-16 currently at end sep) but expecting to extend

  • 1st stage: airlogix 30 min virtual, programme then

  • 2nd is repeat with nhs

  • Github

  • 550 inside

2025-06-19

2025-06-18

  • followed Carl’s advice to register on Jobserve and Reed

  • rewrite CV to focus on Python and backend

  • applied Tecknuovo contract

  • small? 'digital delivery' agency

  • Applied IO SRE role in Corsham

  • DV DevOps Engineer - 6 months - £550 A Day Outside IR35

2025-06-17

2025-06-16

2025-06-11

  • leads:

  • Alex, WA Consultants: email for update

  • Camunda impl:

  • consider

  • depop.com

  • TensorFlow, PyTorch and Scikit-learn.

2025-06-10

second interview at TwinStream

  • bombed: why?

  • didn’t know reason for pods to hang

  • job was on RK2 (k8s distro)

  • live exercise was manifest

  • needed details like image not matching deployed

  • didn’t think about what was necessary (deployment → service → ingress)

  • didn’t talk enough about the process or collaborate

  • conclusion:

  • not convinced I want SRE / Ops, better suited to programming

  • a very narrow test for a very broad role (or if the test matches the role it would be very dull)

2025-06-05

2025-06-04

The manner of the recent communications about the future direction for Inspector and Capability Testing has been high-handed, unilateral and not through the expected channels of planning or management. I have lead this work, apparently with management support, for some time so the way this change of direction has been allowed to happen makes my position at Elsevier untenable. Please consider this notice of my resignation, effective immediately.

Previous draft too harsh As Paul is on vacation I am writing to you to ask what you envisage me doing in the short and medium term since Garrett reports an agreed decision to rewrite the Inspector and Captest work that I have been leading for some time now? Implicitly, this is clearly a rejection of the work I have contributed. I also regard the lack of management direction over many months when I was left to believe I had support followed by its withdrawal as potentially contribution to a constructive dismissal. Furthermore, as I reported to Paul, bringing the entire build team to a call effectively to overrule the de facto approach rather than it coming through normal planning and management channels feels a lot like bullying.

2025-06-03

2025-05-29

2025-05-28

  • python cv

  • applied for green tech job

Python

https://www.totaljobs.com/job/python-developer-hybrid-remote/vertech-group-uk-ltd-job104927736

3day on site NW3 90-97 k Fastapi, k8s, Ci/cd Google Cloud

https://www.totaljobs.com/job/python-developer/sanderson-recruitment-job104960430

Occasional London, 650-750 umbrella Sanderson Gcp, backend, k8s, machine learning

https://www.totaljobs.com/job/python-developer-remote/knowledge-bank-job104858039

Fintech, Barnsley, quarterly meetups Python, fasteapi, lambda, ci/cd No salary, junior? Variety, web scraping, UX, vanilla js

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4045524506/

Green tech 3 day hybrid 100k Django, FastAPI, Docker, AWS

Applied 28 May 25

Java

https://www.totaljobs.com/job/java-software-engineer/omega-resource-group-job104978254 DV required 6-18 months