Remote (CET +/- 2 hours)We are excited to be partnering with OutThink to support them in hiring a Remote Frontend Software Engineer.We are seeking a Frontend Software Engineer to join our exciting start-up, working within a high-performing agile engineering squad, and playing a key role in building and delivering OutThink’s ground-breaking SaaS Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform. The platform provides innovative and just-in-time learning experiences, nudges, and simulations to hundreds of thousands of users around the world via both desktop and mobile devices. At the same time, the system monitors training responses, collects security system data and continually gathers feedback. All this data is collated and processed by our cloud engines in Azure, culminating in the provision of sophisticated predictive human risk management models. Our models can drive automated countermeasures, and present analysis results via the delivery of highly visual and interactive online dashboards.The RoleYou will be working within a high-performing engineering squad, helping to design and build innovative and interactive training experiences supported by highly sophisticated SaaS web applications. You will be building highly visual graphical elements and dashboards that must look stunning and operate smoothly to produce a seamless and polished experience for our users.This is a predominantly remote role in a remote team where open feedback, new ways of working and thinking out of the box are encouraged and expected.RequirementsWhat You’ll Need<ul> <li>A keen eye for detail. </li> <li>An appreciation of responsive and interaction design.</li> <li>Good analytical and problem-solving skills. </li> <li>A positive and proactive attitude with strong initiative, team-working skills, and the ability to learn quickly. </li> <li>A good degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other numerate or semi numerate disciplines. </li> <li>Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate in English in all forms. </li> <li>An understanding of the principles behind great software design, allowing you to write code that’s clean, fast, and scalable. </li> <li>Well-practiced with Agile Development Methodology, working in short sprint cycles. </li> <li>Proven commercial expertise with both React and Redux. </li> <li>JavaScript, in particular familiarity with the latest ECMA versions. </li> <li>TypeScript. Intermediate to advanced knowledge is essential. </li> <li>CSS. It is essential that you are comfortable working with CSS and can effectively translate complex UI/UX requirements into real-world solutions. </li> </ul>Desirable<ul> <li>Redux-Saga. </li> <li>Jest Testing Framework. </li> <li>WebPack and/or similar JavaScript build systems.</li> <li>Experience with localization, in particular, building for non-western audiences.</li> </ul>BenefitsIn Return, You’ll Receive<ul> <li>This a rare opportunity to help build a global SaaS business and have full visibility of the entire operation</li> <li>You’ll learn and grow at a breakneck speed</li> <li>Great start-up culture in a fun, friendly, and hardworking team.</li> <li>Flexible remote working</li> <li>Share options package - a rare opportunity to get in early and have a stake in what could potentially be a unicorn start-up, with a huge financial payback</li> <li>34 days paid holiday (including public holidays)</li> <li>Plus, an extra day off on your birthday!</li> <li>In-person hackathons and social events happening somewhere in Europe at least twice per year.</li> </ul>All OutThinkers are part of the journey, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark against other VC-backed companies to provide above market rate salaries for companies of our size.Join us!We are a remote-first company headquartered in London with teams across EMEA. You will be based in the UK, Spain or South Africa and are willing to travel, as the role requires.We believe in: Trust and Integrity, Innovation, Customer Centricity, Purpose and Collaboration and are looking for someone who lives and breathes our values. We strive to be ‘exceptional’ in everything we do and have a lot of fun along the way!All OutThinkers are part of our journey, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark against other VC-backed companies to provide above-market-rate salaries for companies of our size.Beyond this, plenty more makes OutThink an incredible place to work!

Forward Partners

Frontend Software Engineer (TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Redux) - OutThink

Forward Partners is excited to be supporting ChangeEngine in the search for their next Senior Frontend Engineer (Typescript, React.js, Node.js)About ChangeEngineChangeEngine is the next-generation data-to-communication platform that empowers companies to treat employees like their internal customers. Employees are the heart of any organisation—happy employees lead to happy customers. We think with an employee-centric mindset and our product &amp; team reflects that.In the hybrid workplace, employees are feeling more disconnected than ever before. In order to connect with their employees, companies are sending blanket emails, running all hands, and deploying outdated solutions, such as intranet portals. People teams are not equipped to succeed and are left spending time doing manual tasks. They’re discovering, designing, and executing programs from scratch. We’re here to fix that.ChangeEngine is founded by successful Silicon Valley/UK SaaS entrepreneurs who’ve previously raised investment from Aaron Levie (Box), Eric Schmidt (Google), and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot) amongst 30 angels which led to a successful exit to Jobvite in 2019.Now, we’ve started ChangeEngine to empower companies to communicate with their employees in the most intelligent and impactful ways possible. Delivering critical and beneficial information about what their company has to offer, such as careers, benefits, software, coaching, compliance, diversity, and much more. As a result, we enrich people's work-life experience by highlighting initiatives that are truly meaningful, while staying within their current working flow.At ChangeEngine, we’ve received Seed investment from Struck Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Builders VC, Forward Partners, Alumni Ventures Group, Gaingels, and Notion Capital (amongst a number of other strategic angels) to tackle the unique opportunity to create a new category and deploy the next wave of employee adoption tech.You'll be joining 4 experienced entrepreneurs from the US and UK. Together they have already built global SaaS companies and have 7 combined exits. Spanning both regions, they have access to a wide range of VC backing and support. For this venture, they are capitalizing on their SaaS experience to build even more meaningful tech. ChangeEngine has been awarded Great Place to Work (see certification). Joining us, you’ll be a key part of our Cultural Building Blocks as we pave the way for the future of work.RequirementsMore about the teamEngineering: Our talented and experienced team is made up of like-minded, self-starting individuals. We champion discovery, trust and honesty. We’re very supportive of each other, providing a great place to learn and grow no matter how senior. It’s certainly a fast-paced environment, so a positive culture, transparency and pragmatism are key.Your roleAs a senior frontend engineer and one of our early employees, you’ll be key to helping us make choices that will form the foundation of the technology we build. By joining us this early in the journey we hope you’ll be limitless, truly creative and innovative in your role. You’ll be pivotal in the development of all aspects of our application. You’ll be helping us,<ul> <li>Build innovative and exciting features that we’ll be shipping to our early customers.</li> <li>Make our application extremely user-friendly and intuitive now we’re past our MVP.</li> <li>Polishing our current front end, helping to speed up flows and interactions in our product through better UX and UI.</li> <li>Lead the development of our frontend frameworks and UI.</li> <li>Working with our CPO and clients to improve and continually develop our feature set and new ideas.</li> <li>Help our application grow and mature when it comes to customer onboarding features, usability and adoption.</li> </ul>What we’re looking for from a Frontend Engineer<ul><li>Strong background in application development (we’re mainly desktop-focused at the moment). </li></ul><ul> <li>Has solid experience with Typescript, React.JS, CSS. But able to blur the lines from their discipline when needed e.g. creating new database views, querying our SQL DB.</li> <li>Has basic prototyping and wireframing skills to be able to test ideas with users.</li> </ul><ul> <li>Contributing to FE technology decisions, can understand the details of our stack and how that applies to your own domain.</li> <li>Evolving our early-stage product alongside a small team, with the knowledge that the solution will need to adapt and grow over time.</li> <li>Can measure their contribution by implementing and owning metrics, for e.g. user engagement, drop-offs.</li> <li>Supportive, helping fellow employees and colleagues to learn and grow. For e.g. active in PR reviews, pairing and troubleshooting with others.</li> <li>Contributing to best practices, culture and more. </li> <li>Adopts Technology (cutting edge where possible), to continue building your skill set and bringing fresh and progressive solutions into the company.</li> <li>Has a real interest in FE technologies, problem-solving, and innovations in development practice.</li> <li>Invested in our application, users, metrics, stories, and goals. Take an energetic interest and passion in making us better than our competitors.</li> <li>Worked in a startup culture before and therefore excited to learn fast, move fast, take initiative and help others. </li> </ul>What we believe is important to the role<ul> <li>Is a self-starter, who is proactive in improving and developing quickly as the application adapts to our users.</li> <li>Has or currently is shipping production-ready code.</li> <li>Understands the 80/20 balance when in a small fast-paced environment.</li> <li>Developed a credible application for enterprise or SaaS that is scalable and international.</li> <li>Is using current and modern technology.</li> <li>A bonus if you have experience with AWS.</li> </ul>Why work with us<ul> <li>Because you want to build technology that you're proud of</li> <li>You want to influence technology in your work</li> <li>You want to share knowledge with, and learn from experienced tech entrepreneurs</li> <li>You want to enjoy the culture of a US/UK company (taking best practices from both)</li> </ul>Benefits<ul> <li>Stock options</li> <li>Competitive salary</li> <li>Hybrid working (a mix of in-office and work-from-home)</li> <li>Health insurance which includes additional perks</li> <li>Team retreats (occasionally between US/UK)</li> <li>£500 L&amp;D budget to help you continually grow</li> <li>30 days holiday</li> <li>Modern equipment, MacBook Pro / PC</li> </ul>

Senior Frontend Engineer (Typescript, React.js, Node.js) - ChangeEngine

Koyo (www.koyoloans.com) was founded in 2018, on the principle that everyone should have access to affordable credit regardless of where they are from, where they live, or types of credit that have used. Many seeking credit are charged excessive fees and interest rates for borrowing that cause financial problems, rather than solve them. We’re changing all that.Koyo uses innovative technology to offer fairly priced credit to millions of UK customers. We’re based in London, with global ambitions. Koyo is backed by leading venture capital funds (the same funds that backed the likes of Revolut, Transferwise and others) and some of the most reputable angel investors in the UK. Join us, and help put an end to predatory financial firms and be part of an exciting and rewarding journey.What you’ll be doing:We have a small, highly skilled fully remote technical team led by our experienced CTO. You will join this team in developing the early versions of our lending product, our back office systems and credit decisioning engine. You will be given a lot of ownership, responsibility and freedom. Our tech culture is summarised in two tech blog posts, Koyo Technology Culture – Part 1 and Koyo Technology Culture – Part 2.Our Tech StackOur frontends are built with React and Redux. We use styled-components (and occasionally Material-UI) for our visual components. For code quality we use a light-weight eslint setup, and write tests using Jest and React Testing Library. The backend is primarily in Kotlin using Spring Boot and exposes a REST/JSON API.On the infrastructure side, we are using Docker orchestrated with Kubernetes on GCP. Terraform is used to define the infrastructure as code. Source code and CI/CD is with GitLab. Gitlab is also used to manage the backlog and our light-weight Kanban process.Requirements<ul> <li>This is a senior role and whilst years of experience is often not a good measure it is likely you will have 5+ years of commercial experience.</li> <li>Technical excellence with strong experience of React and latest ECMAScript standards Javascript.</li> <li>A keen eye for good UX and UI.</li> <li>A desire to learn about the business and, with limited guidance, develop elegant solutions from high-level requirements. You will not be "spoon fed" detailed user stories.</li> <li>Entrepreneurial and excited about working at an early-stage startup.</li> <li>You are passionate about building products that are differentiated by the user experience. But you are also pragmatic – time to market is key.</li> <li>You have a growth mindset: You’re excited to learn new things every day and have a passion to inspire and grow.</li> <li>Beneficial but not essential: experience in the lending space (or fintech).</li> <li>This role is fully remote. Your timezone needs to be within 3 hours of London.</li> </ul>Benefits<ul> <li>Competitive salary.</li> <li>Equity in the business - you will own a part of the company that you are helping to build.</li> <li>Opportunity to shape the strategy and direction in a company with an important mission.</li> <li>Working with bright ambitious people who take pride in what they do</li> </ul>

Senior Frontend Developer

Over the last nine years, Forward Partners has built a successful Venture Capital business.Forward Partners are excited to be supporting ClickMechanic in the search for their next fully remote, Full Stack Engineer.ClickMechanic is a marketplace for vehicle repairs. Their platform enables customers to acquire real-time industry-standard quotes for repairs (a first in Europe), services and diagnostics, and quickly book a vetted mechanic online. Thier mission is to bring trust and transparency to car repair.RequirementsThe Role As a full-stack developer in a small, remote team, you will work across all aspects of the product from architecture and DevOps to code reviews and tech support. Working alongside our CTO &amp; Head of Engineering, you will deliver new features and continually improve our existing code. Technology underpins our entire business. We’ve built an industry-leading quote engine and mobile Mechanic App. We consume millions of rows of third-party automotive data and have implemented machine learning to improve the accuracy of our quotes. Your day to day <ul> <li>Writing well-tested production code in Ruby and JavaScript.</li> <li>Refactoring and rearchitecting legacy code where appropriate to ensure you always leave it better than you found it.</li> <li>Reviewing code fairly and honestly; and receiving code reviews openly on each of your pull requests.</li> <li>Collaboration with business stakeholders to develop requirements and expectations.</li> <li>Collaboration with technical stakeholders to discuss constraints and opportunities.</li> <li>Monitoring our production systems and providing technical support to the business.</li> <li>Maintaining our development pipeline and toolchain.</li> <li>Innovation and self-led learning.</li> </ul> The Technology As a startup, we prefer open-source technologies. Our main application is built with Ruby (on Rails) and is hosted on Heroku and AWS. We mainly use PostgreSQL databases, but also use SQL Server and Elasticsearch. The application is mostly a “majestic monolith”, with a few components isolated as separate services or refactored out into private gems. Our mobile-optimised Mechanic App is built using React and Redux, with some parts of an older JQuery mobile implementation still remaining. Our development pipeline utilises Jira, Git, GitHub, Docker, Webpack, Grunt and CircleCI. We also maintain an ELT pipeline using Meltano to import data into Snowflake for consumption via Looker. Your success in this role Your potential is much more important to us than a list of characteristics. Nevertheless, here is a list of characteristics that we hope already apply to you, or that you’re very keen to develop: <ul> <li>You consider yourself fairly expert in at least one OO programming language (not necessarily Ruby).</li> <li>You have built a production web application using an MVC (or equivalent) framework (e.g. Ruby on Rails).</li> <li>Putting OOP, SOLID and TDD into practice makes you feel warm inside.</li> <li>You have strong Git-fu and can perform interactive rebases from the command line.</li> <li>You’re not afraid to get stuck into DevOps</li> <li>You write your best code when pair-programming with another developer regardless of their experience.</li> <li>You read about programming and technology because it’s a passion, not just a profession.</li> <li>You see legacy code as an exciting opportunity to innovate and make things better.</li> </ul> Why ClickMechanic? Founded in 2012, the company has grown quickly to offer nationwide coverage and is backed by such institutional investors as 500 Startups and Forward Partners, and angel investors including the former CEO of JustEat and Chairman of Treatwell. Vehicle repair is a huge market, ripe for technology disruption. There are millions of consumers, tera- or even peta-bytes of potentially underused data, with an exceptional logistics infrastructure (parts distribution).Benefits<ul> <li>Working with leading open-source technologies in an agile team.</li> <li>A culture that embraces flexibility, and rewards growth and innovation.</li> <li>The opportunity to directly contribute to the success of the business every day.</li> <li>A generous package including company pension and share options.</li> <li>MacBook Pro as standard.</li> <li>10% innovation time</li> <li>Manage your own training budget.</li> <li>Full remote first working</li> <li>4 Hubble passes a month as standard (and more if you need them), enabling you to work from shared workspaces if you fancy a change</li> <li>Bringing trust and transparency to an industry which is widely recognised for high levels of customer dissatisfaction.</li> </ul>

Full Stack Engineer - ClickMechanic

Sonrai Analytics is a Belfast-based AI data discovery company that helps Biotech and Pharma companies get maximum value from their data.Sonrai was created in response to a growing need within precision medicine for a platform that could integrate large-scale multi-omic data types and generate meaningful insights and hypotheses, leading to the discovery of novel therapies and biomarkers.Their data analytics platform is sold on a licence fee basis, along with accompanying data science and software engineering professional services.Their clients and partners already include some of the biggest names around and they’re now looking to recruit a Project Manager to help them deliver their strategy.This is the first hire into the Project Management Team, which means there will be lots of opportunity to make your mark in this space and shape it from the ground up.It’s a great time to be joining Sonrai, over the past two years they have:<ul> <li>Developed an Inbound Marketing Automation pipeline to drive our commercial growth</li> <li>Grown their customer base across a range of CROs, biotech’s and pharma companies globally</li> <li>Launched a new £7m oncology collaboration with Roche Pharmaceuticals</li> <li>Won a prestigious £2.3m Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award to deliver novel AI cancer screenings across the NHS.</li> <li>Grown their team to 20+ and won multiple awards</li> </ul>RequirementsOpportunity &amp; Responsibilities<ul><li>Be the Project Manager for key external-facing Sonrai projects including commercial and externally-funded projects </li></ul><ul><li>Initiate, maintain, report and close out projects through drafting of Statements of Work, organising project meetings, tracking project progress and generating interim and final project reports as required. </li></ul><ul><li>Work closely with the internal Sonrai technical teams to plan and deliver projects</li></ul><ul><li>Liaise regularly with customers to plan and deliver projects and be the voice of the customer within Sonrai</li></ul><ul><li>Ensure projects remain on-time and on-budget. Manage the communication of projects internally and externally</li></ul><ul><li>Support sales through generation of proposals and supporting documentation</li></ul><ul><li>Ensure project material is maintained and shared appropriately</li></ul><ul><li>Report regularly to Dx Programme Manager and management team on project progress and issues</li></ul><ul><li>Liaise with Quality and Regulatory team as necessary to work within the QMS and ensure compliance</li></ul><ul><li>Support marketing with input to marketing collateral material as needed</li></ul>Essential criteria<ul> <li>Experience within a role requiring ability to organise, plan and prioritise tasks whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy in all work carried out</li> <li>Experience within a role requiring effective communication skills (written, oral and presentational)</li> <li>Life sciences or software-related degree or equivalent </li> <li>Knowledge of the commercial drug and diagnostic development field</li> <li>Demonstrated growth mindset</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to manage time and workload effectively while in a remote working environment</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to work successfully both on your own and within a collaborative project team</li> </ul>Desirable criteria<ul> <li>Knowledge and/or experience of the precision medicine field, molecular oncology and diagnostics industry</li> <li>Knowledge of data analytics and/or software development </li> <li>Proficiency in use of project management tools</li> </ul>As a growing Tech start-up, Sonrai offers a flexible working environment with employees free to work remotely or to use our Belfast office depending on personal preference. UK and international travel may be required as necessary to attend sales meetings and conferences.Benefits<ul> <li>Generous salary</li> <li>Employer pension contribution</li> <li>Opportunity to work from home</li> <li>Flexible working hours</li> <li>25 days annual leave plus 10 public/bank holidays</li> <li>Training budget / strong focus on staff development</li> <li>Equipment/working from home budget</li> </ul>More than a JobSonrai Analytics is working with global research leaders and industry powerhouses to enable and support truly life-changing advancements within healthcare analytics, bioinformatics, and precision medicine. They're driven by the potential impact their products might have on supporting ground-breaking predictions and they’re seeking passionate individuals to help them accelerate those plans.Sonrai Analytics is an Equal Opportunities employer. They encourage applications from underrepresented and minority backgrounds.

Project Manager - Sonrai Analytics

Remote (CET +/- 2 hours)We are excited to be partnering with OutThink to support them in hiring a Junior Chief of Staff.Founded in 2016, OutThink is a young, VC-backed start-up building the world's first Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform (SaaS).Using cutting-edge science and technology, OutThink protects organisations of any size by reducing the risk of security breaches caused by human behaviour. Our platform is used by large, complex organisations around the world.We are seeking a Junior Chief of Staff to support the CEO, join our amazing team and play an important role in growing the business.As one of our early hires, this role offers significant greenfield opportunities and incredible career growth.RequirementsAs Junior Chief of Staff for OutThink, you’ll be working directly with our Founder and CEO, Flavius Plesu. This is an opportunity to get to know the Founder in-depth and support him with anything he needs. There is great freedom in this role. OutThink is looking for someone who’s driven, uses initiative and works effectively.You will take action, progress things swiftly and solve problems as they arise, incl.:<ul> <li>Diary management for the CEO</li> <li>Travel arrangements</li> <li>Problem-solving</li> <li>Actioning enquiries and emails on behalf of the founder</li> <li>Supporting or taking ownership of and delivering special projects</li> </ul>This role will give you an excellent understanding of how unicorn businesses are built and the scaling journey of a fast-paced start-up. You will work with amazing people.What You’ll Need<ul> <li>You crave growth and know impossible is nothing</li> <li>You are a top performer with a track record of excellence – in sports, education, work</li> <li>You are a self-starter with strong attention to detail</li> <li>You have embraced the work-life integration concept</li> <li>A strong communicator, both verbally and in writing, building relationships across the business – internally and externally as well</li> <li>Extremely well organized – a safe pair of hands, and comfortable managing a significant and varied workload that needs constant prioritization</li> <li>Inquisitive and get to the bottom of things</li> <li>Collaborative, emotionally intelligent and someone people are excited to work with</li> <li>The ability to gauge and understand the demands and pace that the CEO is required to work to so you can mirror that and flex your working style to support the business demands</li> <li>A good understanding of frequently used computer software/applications, such as Microsoft Office, HR, Finance and CRM systems.</li> </ul>BenefitsIn Return, You’ll Receive<ul> <li>This a rare opportunity to help build a global SaaS business and have full visibility of the entire operation</li> <li>You’ll learn and grow at a breakneck speed</li> <li>Great start-up culture in a fun, friendly, and hardworking team.</li> <li>Flexible remote working</li> <li>Share options package - a rare opportunity to get in early and have a stake in what could potentially be a unicorn start-up, with a huge financial payback</li> <li>34 days paid holiday (including public holidays)</li> <li>Plus, an extra day off on your birthday!</li> </ul>Join us!We are a remote-first company headquartered in London with teams across EMEA. You will be based in the UK, Spain or South Africa and are willing to travel, as the role requires.We believe in: Trust and Integrity, Innovation, Customer Centricity, Purpose and Collaboration and are looking for someone who lives and breathes our values. We strive to be ‘exceptional’ in everything we do and have a lot of fun along the way!All OutThinkers are part of our journey, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark against other VC-backed companies to provide above-market-rate salaries for companies of our size.Beyond this, plenty more makes OutThink an incredible place to work!

Junior Chief of Staff - OutThink

Remote (CET +/- 2 hours)We are excited to be partnering with OutThink to support them in hiring for a UK based QA Automation Engineer.OutThink is seeking a UI/UX Designer to join their exciting start-up, working within a high-performing agile engineering squad, and playing a key role in building and delivering OutThink’s ground-breaking SaaS (Software as a Service) Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform.The platform provides innovative and just-in-time learning experiences, nudges, and simulations to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide via desktop and mobile devices. At the same time, the system monitors training responses, collects security system data and continually gathers feedback. All this data is collated and processed by our cloud engines in Azure, culminating in the provision of sophisticated predictive human risk management models. Our models can drive automated countermeasures, and present analysis results via the delivery of highly visual and interactive online dashboards.The Role You will be the QA Automation Engineer within one of our high-performing agile engineering squads, incorporating a product owner and several software developers. Within this squad, you will play a pivotal role in the delivery of our platform, ensuring a high level of quality. You will be hands-on, spending most of your time developing automated test frameworks. You will recommend tools and technologies as appropriate. This role also involves manual testing of our platform as you work closely with the team to ensure quality sprint deliveries. This is a predominantly remote role in a remote team where open feedback, new ways of working, and thinking out of the box is not only encouraged but expected.RequirementsResponsibilities<ul> <li>Take part in all activities relating to the Agile process; planning, stand-up, grooming, estimation, and retrospectives, promoting transparency and collaboration. </li> <li>Work closely with software engineers, DevOps engineers and other QA engineers to define good testing practices and techniques and contribute to the development of a product-minded culture.</li> <li>Build test automation frameworks. </li> <li>Write up customer journey flows that need to be tested on a recurring basis. </li> <li>Perform manual testing wherever necessary. </li> <li>Investigate complex issues to build resolution strategies. </li> <li>Work with the Product Owner to review user interfaces for consistency and identify any potential problems that users might encounter. </li> <li>Identify QA process bottlenecks and suggest actions for improvement and participate in the continuous improvement of our testing practices. </li> <li>Define acceptance criteria for tests. </li> <li>Advocate for overall product quality and testing.</li> </ul>What You’ll Need<ul> <li>3+ years’ experience as a QA Engineer working in an agile team working on a digital (preferably SaaS) product. </li> <li>A good degree in a numerate or semi-numerate field, such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Computer Science. </li> <li>Strong experience in automated testing, using tools such as Selenium, or equivalent. </li> <li>Hands-on experience with building automated test frameworks.</li> <li>Strong experience in manual testing, test organization, test execution and reporting. </li> <li>Experience writing test plans, crafting test cases and debugging. </li> <li>Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release approval processes. </li> <li>A decent understanding of BDD/TDD principles and unit/end-to-end testing. </li> <li>Experience in working in cross functional teams. </li> <li>Calm composure in handling stressful scenarios and tough clients. </li> <li>Possess excellent communication skills and proven experience with best software practices and methodologies. </li> <li>Self-starting, self-motivated, self-directed, and self-sufficient. </li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills and confident presenting your work and representing the team at all levels. </li> <li>Good mastery of English. </li> <li>Experience and a deep interest in new technology and innovation.</li> <li>Ability to learn new processes and concepts fast with a demonstrated sense of curiosity. </li> <li>Intrinsic drive and motivation to build a ‘world first’ and share our start-up vision.</li> </ul>Desirable<ul> <li>Cybersecurity experience. </li> <li>Working experience with JIRA.</li> </ul>BenefitsWhy we think you’ll love it here All OutThinkers are part of the journey, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark against other VC-backed companies to provide above market rate salaries for companies of our size. Beyond this, there is plenty more that makes OutThink a wonderful place to work: <ul> <li>Great start-up culture in a fun, friendly and hardworking team. </li> <li>Fully remote. </li> <li>Generous salary and benefits package. </li> <li>Share options - a rare opportunity to get in early and have a significant stake in what could potentially be a unicorn start-up, with a huge financial payback. </li> <li>34 days paid holiday (including public holidays) </li> <li>In-person hackathons and social events happening somewhere in Europe at least twice per year.</li> </ul>Headquartered in the City of London, OutThink is a start-up using some of the latest methodologies and technologies to build the world's first truly predictive Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform (SaaS). We are building an innovative, disruptive solution. OutThink is the evolution of traditional security awareness training. Used by large, complex organisations around the world, the OutThink software platform has been developed specifically to identify, understand, measure and manage cybersecurity human risk. Equality &amp; diversity Our mission to empower and protect people reflects two of our values: (i) Human First and (ii) We Do the Right Thing. For us, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is also a reflection of these core values. As a human first company, we are committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where all our OutThinkers can thrive. We strive for a better OutThink, and a better world. We're working inside and outside OutThink to improve diversity and equity in our industry and foster an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Our strategy touches each part of an OutThinker’s life cycle, from applicant to employee, ensuring that we keep Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the core of every point in our candidate and employee experience.

QA Automation Engineer - OutThink

Remote (CET +/- 2 hours)We are excited to be partnering with OutThink to support them in hiring for a UK based Backend Engineer.We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join our exciting start-up, working within a high performing agile engineering squad, and playing a key role in building and delivering OutThink’s ground-breaking SaaS (Software as a Service) Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform. The platform provides innovative and just-in-time learning experiences, nudges, and simulations to hundreds of thousands of users around the world via both desktop and mobile devices. At the same time, the system monitors training responses, collects security system data and continually gathers feedback. All this data is collated and processed by our cloud engines in Azure, culminating in the provision of sophisticated predictive human risk management models. Our models can drive automated countermeasures, and present analysis results via the delivery of highly visual and interactive on-line dashboards.RequirementsThe RoleYou will be working to help design and build high performing APIs, robust microservices, cloud native databases, backend algorithms, AI services and infrastructure in support of the company’s vision for a supremely scalable, extensible, and highly performing cloud-native solution. What You’ll Need <ul> <li>Good analytical and problem-solving skills. </li> <li>A positive and proactive attitude with strong initiative, team-working skills, and the ability to learn quickly. </li> <li>Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate in English in all forms. </li> <li>An understanding of the principles behind great software design, allowing you to write code that’s clean, fast, and scalable. </li> <li>A good degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other numerate or semi-numerate discipline. </li> <li>Well-practiced with Agile Development Methodology, working in short sprint cycles, and able to help mentor other developers. </li> <li>Extensive commercial experience of building and working with cloud-native or hybrid cloud solutions with Azure. </li> <li>Strong hands-on experience with .NET 7.0 (or recent earlier versions) using C#. </li> <li>Experience of building cloud-native solutions with Microsoft Azure; with at least some of the following: API Management, API Gateway, Cognitive Services, Storage Accounts, App Service for Containers, Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus and Azure Kubernetes Service. • Containerization Technology (Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx). </li> <li>Strong SQL Server skillset, including T-SQL. </li> <li>Experience of building solutions incorporating NoSQL Databases such as Redis, MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, or Azure Cosmos DB. </li> <li>Experience of TDD and Unit Testing Frameworks, such as MSTest or NUnit. </li> <li>Git Source Control, with GitHub or Azure DevOps Services. </li> <li>Open API / REST API exposure.</li> </ul>Desirable<ul> <li>Proven experience working with event driven distributed systems. </li> <li>Design experience with domain driven microservices based architectures and CQRS.</li> </ul>BenefitsWhy we think you’ll love it here All OutThinkers are part of the journey, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark against other VC-backed companies to provide above market rate salaries for companies of our size. Beyond this, there is plenty more that makes OutThink a wonderful place to work: <ul> <li>Great start-up culture in a fun, friendly and hardworking team. </li> <li>Fully remote. </li> <li>Generous salary and benefits package. </li> <li>Share options - a rare opportunity to get in early and have a significant stake in what could potentially be a unicorn start-up, with a huge financial payback. </li> <li>34 days paid holiday (including public holidays) </li> <li>In-person hackathons and social events happening somewhere in Europe at least twice per year.</li> </ul><ul> </ul><ul> </ul>Headquartered in the City of London, OutThink is a start-up using some of the latest methodologies and technologies to build the world's first truly predictive Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform (SaaS). We are building an innovative, disruptive solution. OutThink is the evolution of traditional security awareness training. Used by large, complex organisations around the world, the OutThink software platform has been developed specifically to identify, understand, measure and manage cybersecurity human risk. Equality &amp; diversity Our mission to empower and protect people reflects two of our values: (i) Human First and (ii) We Do the Right Thing. For us, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is also a reflection of these core values. As a human first company, we are committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where all our OutThinkers can thrive. We strive for a better OutThink, and a better world. We're working inside and outside OutThink to improve diversity and equity in our industry and foster an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Our strategy touches each part of an OutThinker’s life cycle, from applicant to employee, ensuring that we keep Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the core of every point in our candidate and employee experience.

Backend Software Engineer (.NET, Microservices, Azure, C#) - OutThink

Remote (CET +/- 2 hours)We are excited to be partnering with OutThink to support them in hiring for a UX / UI Designer.OutThink is seeking a UI/UX Designer to join their exciting start-up, working within a high-performing agile engineering squad, and playing a key role in building and delivering OutThink’s ground-breaking SaaS (Software as a Service) Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform.The platform provides innovative and just-in-time learning experiences, nudges, and simulations to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide via desktop and mobile devices. At the same time, the system monitors training responses, collects security system data and continually gathers feedback. All this data is collated and processed by our cloud engines in Azure, culminating in the provision of sophisticated predictive human risk management models. Our models can drive automated countermeasures, and present analysis results via the delivery of highly visual and interactive online dashboards.The RoleYou will have a design background with valuable UX knowledge gained from commercial experience. You will need to be a master at eliciting requirements from stakeholders, internal and external, and be able to design beautiful, elegant, and perfectly realisable user interfaces.You should possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level business requirements into effective design artefacts such as task flows and wireframes, and further ensure that they can be transformed into intuitive and functional user interfaces.You will need to communicate scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs to stakeholders and be able to realise complex data visualizations.This is a predominantly remote role in a remote team where open feedback, new ways of working and thinking out of the box are encouraged and expected.RequirementsResponsibilities<ul> <li>Investigating user experience design requirements for OutThink’s digital SaaS platform, in collaboration with Product Owners and other stakeholders.</li> <li>Translating complex business processes into intuitive and elegant use and product experiences.</li> <li>Working with teams internally to ensure the creation and delivery of beautiful and elegant experiences for users.</li> <li>Producing high-quality UX design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, process maps, flow diagrams, storyboards, and prototypes.</li> <li>Assisting in developing and evaluating user stories and usability studies.</li> </ul>What You’ll Need<ul> <li>A solid appreciation of art, beauty, and a keen sense of aesthetics to drive design innovation.</li> <li>A positive and proactive attitude with strong initiative and team-working skills.</li> <li>Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate in English in all forms.</li> <li>An understanding of the basics behind great software design.</li> <li>An eye for clean and artful design.</li> <li>Experience building data-centric web visualizations with an understanding of the limitations of web architecture design choices.</li> <li>3+ years of solid commercial experience with UI design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch, Zeplin, Axure, Figma or Invision.</li> <li>Experience with Agile Development Methodology, working in short sprint cycles.</li> <li>Experience with Purpose-Driven Design processes.</li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills and self-assured to present your work and represent the team at all levels.</li> <li>Fluent in English.</li> <li>Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.</li> <li>Ability to learn new processes and concepts fast with a demonstrated sense of curiosity.</li> <li>Intrinsic drive and motivation to build a ‘world first’ and share our start-up vision.</li> </ul>BenefitsWhy we think you’ll love it here All OutThinkers are part of the journey we’re on, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark against other VC-backed companies to provide above market rate salaries for companies of our size. Beyond this, there’s plenty more that makes OutThink a great place to work: <ul> <li>Great start-up culture in a fun, friendly, and hardworking team.</li> <li>Fully remote.</li> <li>Generous salary and benefits package.</li> <li>Share options - a rare opportunity to get in early and have a significant stake in what could potentially be a unicorn start-up, with a huge financial payback.</li> <li>34 days paid holiday (including public holidays).</li> <li>Plus, an extra day off on your birthday for every year with OutThink (up to 5).</li> <li>Comprehensive &amp; generous health insurance options.</li> <li>A work-from-home subsidy for every new joiner to kit out your home office.</li> <li>Amazing Remote socials with food and drink budgets.</li> </ul>OutThink is a young start-up using some of the latest technologies and methodologies to build the world's first truly predictive Human Risk Management Platform (SaaS). We are building an innovative, disruptive solution, OutThink is the evolution of traditional security awareness training. Used by large, complex organisations around the world, the OutThink SaaS platform has been developed specifically to identify, measure human risk, and affect behaviour change. OutThink is headquartered in the UK but has been a remote-first company since before the pandemic, with employees working from locations including Spain, UK, Bulgaria, and United Arab Emirates. We use the latest collaboration tools to ensure a productive working environment. We soon expect to be meeting up again in locations across Europe to socialise and for a much needed catch-up.

UI/UX Designer - OutThink

Forward Partners is excited to be supporting Driftrock is the search for their next Product Manager. At Driftrock we provide technology that helps make marketing something that people want to see.We are on the hunt for an experienced Product Manager passionate about designing and developing Product-led software that solves genuine problems for businesses and end consumers.You will be working closely with the CEO and responsible for the product roadmap, delivery and optimisation of the Driftrock platform, which is used by brands like BMW, Open University, BT and many small businesses worldwide.Who we are @ DriftrockDriftrock is a software platform that uses data to help start meaningful conversations between people and brands.We do this by creating, connecting, and managing all the surfaces and data where customers choose to interact with brands.We are at the start of our journey and excited to work with a Product Manager passionate about executing a vision to help brands connect with their customers in a new privacy-first, consumer-led world.We work with some of the world’s best data-driven brands, such as BMW, Volvo, and Vitality.We are a team of 18 people who care deeply about what we do. As a result, you’ll have a huge impact on Driftrock’s culture, product, and how we work.Driftrock is a remote-first company but also provides flexible workspace passes if you need them, giving you the freedom to choose how and where you would like to work each day.RequirementsThe roleWe are looking for a Product Manager to own the entire product lifecycle. The role included customer development, ideation, the roadmap, UX, data analysis and working with engineers. You'll be the glue across all the engineering, customer success, sales and marketing teams, reporting directly to the CEO to help shape the product and our strategy.This is a fantastic opportunity to apply your experience, help shape the future direction and processes across the entire team.Responsibilities:<ul> <li>You will work with the CEO on the product vision, strategy and innovation to deliver products that brands and end consumers love.</li> <li>Research and customer development to ensure that we deliver solutions that solve real problems for our customers.</li> <li>Manage the product lifecycle, roadmap and prioritisation with our engineering team.</li> <li>Live and breathe quantitative and qualitative data to optimise our products and ensure customers successfully achieve their goals.</li> <li>Work with marketing teams to help communicate our product vision and solutions to drive adoption internally and externally.</li> <li>Work with design teams to deliver a product that is as easy and enjoyable to use as it is powerful.</li> <li>Champion continuous improvement in our product and engineering team.</li> </ul>Requirements:<ul> <li>3 years+ Product Management experience, with proven success in delivering products from idea to success and scale.</li> <li>Experience working in a Product-led SaaS business is desirable.</li> <li>Experience working in cross-functional teams to deliver a product on time.</li> <li>Experience working directly with Engineers to deliver web or mobile applications.</li> <li>Naturally creative with an eye for brilliant design and usability.</li> <li>Experience and passion for the various product management and engineering methodologies - We believe in choosing and adapting methodologies to suit the company's size and goals.</li> <li>Great communication and interpersonal skills.</li> <li>A strong technical understanding of how web applications work and are deployed.</li> <li>Smart, passionate and able to learn new things quickly.</li> </ul>Benefits<ul> <li>The option to work remotely and make use of flexible hours.</li> <li>Maternity and Paternity - Family comes first, so we have a package that means you can spend the time you need with your growing family.</li> <li>A holiday entitlement of 24 days, increasing a day each year, capped at 28.</li> <li>Budget to attend conferences or courses to further your development.</li> <li>Flexibility to take courses or time on personal goals.</li> <li>Monthly socials at some fun venues online and offline!</li> <li>Share options in the company with very favourable option agreements.</li> <li>A regular personal review process to help you set goals and increase your package based on your achievements.</li> <li>A company pension scheme contribution and vision policy.</li> <li>Cycle-to-work and electric car schemes.</li> <li>Discounts and perks with CharlieHR.</li> <li>ClassPass membership to get free credits to spend on the best fitness classes of your choice.</li> </ul>

Product Manager - Driftrock

Forward Partners is excited to be supporting EmpowerRD is the search for their next Customer Success Manager. EmpowerRD is a fast growing startup based in London, UK. Our vision is to assist our clients to unlock all of the funding that rewards innovation globally. We do this by combining expert knowledge and advanced technology to take the complexity out of claiming for funding that is available. Our current focus is on helping companies within the UK unlock some of the £5Bn of funds available annually for companies that invest in research and development.Having built a client base of over 900 companies in the last few years, we continue to expand our focus and as such are looking for a Customer Success Manager to join our highly skilled team. Working both autonomously and in collaboration, you'll play an integral role to our continued growth and be empowered with the right tools and training. In addition, you will gain valuable FinTech sales experience and, as you progress, be rewarded with the opportunity to grow with the organisation.RequirementsAbout the Job:You will develop a detailed knowledge of our platform and services with a vision to use this to support the success of our client engagements. You will be required to provide technical and operational support to clients. This may entail helping clients plan and understand the best ways to use our service based on the client’s business needs. This role is focused on educating our clients on the flexibility and capabilities of our service. Key tasks would include:<ul> <li>Onboard new clients to ensure successful delivery of engagements</li> <li>Managing a portfolio of client accounts throughout their whole life cycle and proactively renewing contracts</li> <li>Provide technical, service and product support to our clients</li> <li>Ensure client compliance with our processes and procedures</li> <li>Liaise with the tax technical team to ensure the success of client engagements</li> <li>Report to the Head of Customer Success</li> </ul>Skills and Qualifications:<ul> <li>Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to quickly develop rapport and influence others.</li> <li>Present strong organisational skills and an eye for detail.</li> <li>Capability to simplify and clearly explain complex/technical issues.</li> <li>Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.</li> <li>Ability to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment.</li> <li>A genuine go-getter attitude with a desire for constant self-improvement.</li> <li>Committed to pursuing a career in operations to deliver excellence in customer success.</li> <li>Someone with 1+ years experience in internal operations or customer success role, but more importantly, we need smart, considered team members.</li> </ul>BenefitsOur Values:<ul> <li>EmpowerRD has a strong set of values that permeate our culture and define how we work. You should consider whether these align with your personal values and style when considering this role.</li> <li>Lead with integrity: We do the right thing by our team, client and stakeholders. We find the right solution, not the first solution. We build trust through our technology and relationships.</li> <li>Professionalism in engagement: We are reliable and dependable in our behaviour. We are an authority in our subject matter - we know what we’re talking about. We invest in learning. We are respectful in our communication.</li> <li>Bold in outlook: We are an innovative organisation and invest in innovation in our technology, our processes and ourselves. We are bold in our actions. We are market leading in our thinking and services. We are driven by data.</li> <li>Proactive in focus: We have a growth mindset. We’re not afraid of taking considered risks. We learn from mistakes and continuously improve. We don’t wait to be told, we act as an example.</li> <li>Approachable in style: We see ourselves as an enabler of a wider ecosystem. We support each other and grow together. We are a team that is fun and positive. We make ourselves accessible to our teams, clients and stakeholders. We take ownership of our actions.</li> </ul><ul> </ul>

Customer Success Manager - EmpowerRD

This position is Remote (CET+/- 2 hours)We are partnering with OutThink on their search for a Cybersecurity Head of Content to join their exciting start-up, playing a key role in designing and delivering OutThink’s ground-breaking SaaS (Software as a Service) Cybersecurity Human Risk Management Platform. They are building intelligent software that goes beyond traditional security awareness training. Using machine learning technology, OutThink provides innovative and just-in-time learning experiences, nudges, and simulations to hundreds of thousands of users around the world via both desktop and mobile devices with the aim of reducing the risk of security incidents and data breaches. At the same time, they monitor training responses, collect security system data, and continually gather feedback. All this data is collated and processed by our cloud-based engines, culminating in the provision of sophisticated predictive human risk management models.Their models present analysis results via highly visual and interactive on-line dashboards and drive automated improvement actions. Founded in 2016, OutThink is VC-backed, with the HQ in London and teams across EMEA.RequirementsAs Head of Content, you will have a mission, vision and voice. You will develop and implement a content strategy, deciding what topics to address in the training, email newsletters and all our training assets. This is a hands-on role, you will coordinate and manage all aspects of pre-production, production and post-production, including planning, creative direction, budget management, writing scripts and publishing to the OutThink training platform.You will hire and manage freelance and contract talent. The ideal candidate possesses a strong passion for creating animated video content that tells compelling stories while also being highly organised, detail oriented and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a demanding and fast-paced environment. The Head of Content must have extensive experience working with production companies, managing freelancers, negotiating competitive rates, and making sure that a high-quality, on-brand product is always delivered. You’ll take ownership of your projects from day one. You’ll work with the senior stakeholders to move things forward, and recommend the tools you need to do your best work.You will become an expert in the field, able to answer customer questions and concerns, and drive the understanding and adoption of good cybersecurity practices. This is a predominantly remote role in a remote team where open feedback, new ways of working, and thinking out of the box is not only encouraged but expected.Responsibilities <ul> <li>Develop and execute the content strategy together with the Product and Research teams</li> <li>Drive the creation from concept through to delivery of best-in class content for our cybersecurity training courses, together with internal and external creative / production resources</li> <li>Suggest creative treatments and approaches to help bring scripts to life</li> <li>In collaboration with the UI/UX team think about the user experience, usability, and accessibility, in order to meet learners’ needs</li> <li>Work with a range of digital formats and create content for training collaterals such as posters, newsletters, nudges, screensavers etc.</li> <li>Master our bespoke, in-house built content management application</li> <li>Adapt, localise and customise content for each of our clients across the globe</li> <li>Assist with social media promotion strategy and provide videos and other content for our social media on a regular basis</li> <li>Maximise efforts on strategic vision, budget tracking and resource allocation</li> <li>Support, recruit, supervise, train and mentor team members</li> <li>Speak to industry experts and partners</li> <li>Drive reach, reputation and revenue with content</li> <li>Regularly talk with clients </li> </ul>What You’ll Need<ul> <li>5+ years of experience in media production and/or creative direction</li> <li>Bachelor's degree in Digital Media Production, Communications, or a related field</li> <li>Demonstrate strong passion for creating video content, bursting with creative video ideas and bringing fresh approaches to communicating challenges</li> <li>A sound understanding of the processes involved in motion graphics production and a good eye for design</li> <li>Excellent writing skills. Being able to write engagingly, using client-friendly language and tone to bring ideas to life</li> <li>Experience in adapting content across multiple geographies</li> <li>Excellent attention to detail and ability to take responsibility for entire projects</li> <li>Have strong organisational skills – able to prioritise effectively</li> <li>Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: You’re comfortable moderating client conversations amongst skilled professionals, communicating goals, vision, and showcasing complex problems with a passion for finding pragmatic and smart solutions</li> <li>Demonstrate high levels of EQ – a person who clients and colleagues will trust and enjoy working with</li> <li>Ability to learn new processes and concepts fast with a demonstrated sense of curiosity</li> <li>Experience and a deep interest in new technology and innovation</li> <li>Intrinsic drive and motivation to build a ‘world first’ and share our start-up vision </li> </ul>Desirable<ul> <li>Knowledge of multiple languages</li> <li>To be already positioned within a cybersecurity-based role or similar exposure to cybersecurity and a keen interest of delving deeper </li> <li>Previous experience working in a start-up</li> </ul>BenefitsWhy we think you’ll love it here All OutThinkers are part of the journey we’re on, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark against other VC-backed companies to provide above market rate salaries for companies of our size. Beyond this, there’s plenty more that makes OutThink a great place to work: <ul> <li>Great start-up culture in a fun, friendly, and hardworking team.</li> <li>Fully remote.</li> <li>Generous salary and benefits package.</li> <li>Share options - a rare opportunity to get in early and have a significant stake in what could potentially be a unicorn start-up, with a huge financial payback.</li> <li>34 days paid holiday (including public holidays).</li> <li>Plus, an extra day off on your birthday for every year with OutThink (up to 5).</li> <li>Comprehensive &amp; generous health insurance options.</li> <li>A work-from-home subsidy for every new joiner to kit out your home office.</li> <li>Amazing Remote socials with food and drink budgets.</li> </ul>

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