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About Us

Automation Consultants is a leading Agile and DevOps consultancy, dedicated to improving business performance through digital transformation and software automation. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry recognised automation solutions, software development and technical support. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.

AppFox is a proud part of Automation Consultants, the software application team are behind some of the most loved apps on the Atlassian and Monday.com Marketplaces

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The Roles:

Graduate Consultant

Working as part of our highly skilled consultancy team, you will work through complex client projects, including data migrations, software upgrades and performance testing, as well as conducting internal projects. This is a diverse and fast-paced role where technical knowledge and interpersonal skills combine to meet our client’s specific software lifecycle challenges. A role that requires wide technical knowledge, the ability to problem solve and adopt new technical skills quickly.

Responsibilities And Duties:

Consulting Delivery

• Delivers billable consulting services.
• Participates in the full project life cycle, taking ideas from concept through full deployment.
• Uses technical competence and implementation experience to develop functional and technical solution skills.
  
  

Customer Management

• Develops customer relationship and expectation management skills by independently working with customers.
• Communicates effectively with team members both internally and with customers.
• Ensures a solid understanding of business objectives associated with projects and/or programs to which they are assigned.
• Demonstrates influence towards positive outcomes, internally and externally with customers.
  
  

Essential

Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience using at least two of the following programming languages; Java, JavaScript, Python, C, C#, C++, and Matlab
• A relevant and strong degree within a STEM based subject, 2:1 minimum.
• The passion to learn new skills and procedures to be an effective member of the team.
• A knowledge of and interest in the software development lifecycle
• Strong interpersonal skills
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience of Atlassian software and AWS
  
  

Graduate Software Developer

AppFox is looking for Graduate Software Engineers to perform full stack development across our product category and contribute to the development and maintenance of the AppFox distributed system and to the establishment and maintenance of software development good practices across multiple teams.

Responsibilities And Duties:

Engineering

• Design and develop small and medium features with the help of more senior engineers, both in the back-end and in the front-end
• Write unit and integrations tests with the help of more senior engineers.
• Resolve small bugs with the help of more senior engineers.
• Use version control systems effectively to manage software.
• Perform valuable code reviews on small pull requests.
• Be cloud aware.
  
  

Team

• Be collaborative and make others comfortable when working together.
• Accepts feedback graciously.
• Attend and contribute to Scrum events.
• Use allocated personal development time to address gaps and work towards goals.
• Use internal documentation to find answers, otherwise proactively ask questions.
  
  

Commercial

• Respect estimated times in delivering small features.
• Communicate proactively blockers and changes in scope and estimated times of delivery.
• Show customer awareness in every aspect of day-to-day work.
• Own small and medium features from a product perspective
  
  

Qualifications And Skills

Essential

• Experience using at least two of the following programming languages; Java, JavaScript, Python, C, C#, C++
• A relevant and strong degree within a STEM based subject, 2:1 minimum.
• Theoretical knowledge and basic practical experience of web development
• Solid knowledge of version control systems (GIT) and applications (GitHub)
  
  

Nice to have

• Development projects and/or industry experience
• Knowledge of classical algorithms and data structures
  
  

Why us?

Benefits:

We know that here at Automation Consultants and AppFox, our team members are the best in the industry. So, we do everything we can to take care of them. We offer ongoing training and professional development, tailored to the individual’s ambitions, as well as creating a team that learn from one another. We offer challenging projects within a supportive team and believe that your skills should always be growing.

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Private Healthcare
• Dental insurance
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plans.
• Pension Scheme
• Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget.
• Flexible working hours and environment
• Access to the Electric Car Scheme
• Automation Consultant’s Cycle to Work Scheme
• Top Spec Machine and access to virtual test lab
• Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.
• Regular company-wide events, team social events, including Hackathons and competitions.
  
  

About Us

Automation Consultants is a leading Agile and DevOps consultancy, dedicated to improving business performance through digital transformation and software automation, as well as selling our own software under our AppFox brand. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry recognised automation solutions, software development and technical support. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.