Senior Full Stack Engineer, QuantSpark
£61-78k
+ Share options scheme
2+ days a week in office
Data analytics services consultancy
Job no longer available
Data analytics services consultancy
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£61-78k
+ Share options scheme
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To pioneer the strategic application of data science and software development to improve commercial decision-making.
Role
Who you are
- Python Web Development: Expertise in Flask/Django, Gunicorn, ORMs
- Front-End Skills: Strong experience with JavaScript (React.js, TypeScript), Webpack, HTML, CSS
- Database and Caching Technologies: Proficiency in PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Testing Experience: Familiarity with unit testing and TDD
- Code Management: Experience with Git, Bitbucket, branching strategies, and CI pipelines
- Containerisation Technologies: Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder collaboration
- Ownership and Leadership: Ability to manage workstreams, support junior team members, and lead discussions
- Client Engagement: Confidence in managing client relationships, especially with technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience with AWS services (S3, Redshift, RDS, Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS)
- UI/UX Design experience
- Familiarity with Python packages for data science (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit, TensorFlow)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be crucial in developing client-facing functionalities, including web applications and API endpoints
- Your role will cover the entire project lifecycle, from requirements gathering and solution design to development, testing, and validation
- While your primary focus will be on backend development using technologies like Python for API endpoints, a solid understanding of frontend technologies such as TypeScript and React is also required
- Additionally, you will lead by example in making informed decisions related to design patterns, development paradigms, and application architecture, ensuring that best practices are consistently followed
Salary benchmarks
Our take
QuantSpark helps governments and businesses to strategically apply data science through the development of complex decision-making software. Primarily, its 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.
Already, the company has 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 its 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.
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Company benefits
- Social impact: We are passionate about giving our team the chance to have a real social impact and will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of impactful projects
- Training budget: Everyone in QuantSpark has a monthly training budget to spend on their own professional development
- Scale-up culture: We don't often have pizzas but we do offer a unique environment to contribute to QuantSpark's growth culture
- Socials: We're a social bunch and love to get to know each other
Company values
- Diversity: Diversity of people and ideas is essential for wellbeing and effectiveness as teams. Our interdisciplinary approach means that we produce extraordinary outcomes for our clients and also provides significant opportunities for professional development
- Analytical Rigour: We use data to cut through cognitive biases and pursue the truth for our clients. We test and probe each other's ideas and findings to ensure we leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of being the best we can
- Teamwork: As we work together to scale up QuantSpark and support our clients in their own analytics transformation journey, we take pride in teaching, learning, developing, and sharing as a team
- Entrepreneurialism: Rolling our sleeves up. Grit. We focus on doing our best to get the best outcomes for our clients. We empower all our colleagues to think outside the box in order deliver innovation for our clients
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Adam Hadley
(Co-Founder & 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 the Head of People and Operations. Anastasia joined the business as EA to Adam, the CEO, and quickly built out a department of her own which continues to expand.
Sophie joined the team in 2021 as a Senior Product Manager. They were quickly promoted to Product Lead and again to Head of Product.
Daniel joined as a Data Analyst in 2019 and now leads the Analytics Engineering Team and is an integral part of the business.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at QuantSpark
- QuantSpark is an equal opportunities employer committed to fair and equitable treatment for all potential employees, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, or disability.
- We utilise diversity and inclusion data to pinpoint areas of improvement to our hiring process.
- 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 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.
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