Salary: Commensurate with experience (£40k + bonus)
Job type: Permanent and Full-time
Location: South West London (SW7)

Continuum Economics

We are building and maintaining an innovative new financial markets research platform and are looking for engineers to grow our development team based in London!

The company provides financial analysis to some of the world's largest financial institutions and hedge funds - covering foreign exchange, equities, commodities, fixed income markets and more.

What we build…

A client facing platform that distributes financial analysis through our website (continuumeconomics.com built with Laravel+Vue.js), Email (SendGrid, Pardot), REST APIs, and content feeds to various partners. Internal tools including custom CMS (Laravel+Vue.js), subscription management tools & more.

Responsibilities:

• Working as a key member of the product development team
• Building products following agile values and principles & iterative development practices
• Working across the full product lifecycle, from idea creation & design through to deployment and beyond, comfortable working with designers, project managers, and other business stakeholders
• Identifying improvements to the development and delivery processes
• Further developing our internal tooling: CMS, Analytics, Salesforce, Mobile App
• Kind, positive, respectful, a team player ready to contribute

Required skills and experience

• Proven person of action & delivery focus
• Results oriented
• 3+ years of web development experience using PHP
• Strong OO design patterns and understanding of MVC
• Excellent working knowledge of modern PHP 7.x development
• Experience working with Laravel, ORM (Eloquent), migrations, databases such as MySQL & PostgreSQL, Vue js
• Comfortable working with Html / Scss
• Understanding of unit testing and test driven development
• Experience working with Version Control (Git)
• Right to work in the UK

Preferred, But Not Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
• Experience building REST APIs, RSS Feed or XML feeds is a plus
• Experience with Laravel passport is a plus but not required
• Experience with Vue native or/and Electron.js are a plus but not required
• Experience with, or interest in, financial markets, economics and statistics is a plus

To Apply:Qualified candidates, who are eligible to work in the UK, should send a CV and cover letter to hr-fullstack-dev@4castgm.com with the subject ‘‘Full Stack Developer - London’’. 

Please note that due to the high volume of applications received, we can only respond to those applicants whom we wish to interview.