Forsyth Barnes
Senior Software Developer (Golang)

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Senior Software Developer (Golang/Java)
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I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
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StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
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Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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Pay: £500-£550 per day


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Location: Hybrid (2 days in the London office a week)
IR35: Outside
Contract Length: 6 month initial (However there is over 1 year worth of work there)
Contact: matthew.makranczy@forsythbarnes.com
We are partnered with an award-winning organisation that combines cutting-edge data science with deep expertise in payments data to support financial institutions in the fight against money laundering and fraud. Their innovative, bespoke services help clients uncover the criminal behaviours behind financial crime.
Requirements:
- You are detail oriented and enjoy writing and reviewing code to a high standard with tests to prove it.
- Demonstrable ability to write high quality Golang/Java and SQL in a production context. You are happy to learn new programming languages and frameworks as necessary.
- Experience with large volumes of data and high throughput, low latency solutions built on Kafka and Kubernetes.
- You have experience with, and are interested in, contemporary approaches to service design, including the use of containers and container orchestration technologies, streaming data platforms, APIs, and in-memory/NoSQL stores.
- You have experience in resolving different solutions and approaches to problems and can choose between pragmatic and rigorous solutions depending on the situation.
- You are comfortable working in a devops-based software development workflow, including building, testing, and continuous integration/deployment. You are also happy to evolve along with the development process and contribute to its success.
- You are comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, data scientists, software engineers, devops and security professionals.
- You have the ability to engage with best practices for code review, version control, and change control, balancing the need for a quality codebase with the unique and particular demands of scale-up stage software engineering.
- You have experience optimising solution performance with a constrained set of technologies.
- You have experience or are keen to engage with productionising machine learning technologies combined with large scale feature engineering.
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