Technology Recruitment Solutions

SoCode are proud to be working in partnership with a revolutionary technology firm in Cambridge who work at the cutting edge of technology and are growing at a phenomenal rate. Due to this our client are looking to build their IC Design and Verification team and welcome the opportunity for an IC Verification Engineer with SoC experience to focus primarily on verification of complex SoC devices, but also to work with the team to enhance existing Soc verification methodology using next generation verification techniques including high level verification languages. This role may also involve many or all parts of the flow from block or system level specification and RTL design of modules for use in IC or FPGA, through functional verification, synthesis and timing closure, to silicon validation and production test. This will require solid use of your high-level Verification Language experience (SystemVerilog preferred, or Specman E). To be successful, you will possess the following verification techniques: Bus functional models (BFMs) Assertion based verification Random test benches Functional coverage RTL design (VHDL or Verilog) Experience of network/ interfaces is advantageous. Location: Cambridge Salary: £80,000 per annum Benefits: Share options, bonus, pension scheme, and much more! If you are interested and would like to know more, get in touch at shannen@socode.co.uk

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Hardware Test & Validation Engineer in Cambridge. Our client, a revolutionary technology company located in Cambridge who are well known for being ahead of technology and currently going through a terrific period of growth this demand has come about due to the cutting-edge nature of the company’s technology and the new market areas/partnerships they have entered. Priding themselves on self-learning, self-development they work in an agile, flat and collaborative environment that welcomes fresh ideas. As the Hardware Test and Validation Engineer you will assist in the defining, setting up and performing IC validation, characterisation and hardware system testing. Key duties to this role will include: Writing test plans for ASIC validation Defining test methods Leading failure investigations and perform RMA analysis Writing test scripts to automate PVT testing Compiling block validation reports Characterising ASIC’s across PVT Setting up hardware testing environment Carrying out pre compliance testing to standards and some of EMC Work with IC Designers and Software teams to understand validation requirements and define block test scripts To be successful in this role you will have the following experience: Silicon validation Writing python test scripts for test automation Compliance testing Proficient in using signal generators, oscilloscopes, logic analysers and other test equipment Location: Cambridge Salary: £50,000 per annum Benefits: Share options, bonus, pension scheme, and much more! If you are interested and would like to know more, get in touch at shannen@socode.co.uk

SoCode are proud to be working in partnership with a revolutionary technology firm in Cambridge who work at the cutting edge of technology and are growing at a phenomenal rate. Due to this my client are looking for a Hardware Design Engineer to join their team. If you want to work for a company that pride themselves on self-learning and self-development, then keep reading. As the Hardware Design Engineer, a key part of your role will be designing reference boards, testing and debugging interfaces as well as validating both board design and silicon. Key duties will include: Perform feasibility studies and technical investigations Working with suppliers, customers and PCB layout bureau and manufacturers to deliver quality solutions Assisting with ASIC validation activities Create and maintain documentation such as user guides, application notes and assembly instructions Pre-compliance testing and some aspects of EMC It is essential that you have experience in general and high speed digital and analogue electronics design with a goof knowledge of video, networking or bus interfaces. Location: Cambridge Salary: Market Leading Benefits: Share options, bonus, pension scheme, and much more! If you are interested and would like to know more, get in touch at shannen@socode.co.uk

SoCode are working with a leading technology firm based in Cambridge. The successful candidate will be someone with good experience of working in an agile environment, preferably from a hardware or IC background. The company works at the cutting edge of technology and is growing at a phenomenal rate. Due to this they are looking for truly agile project managers to help teams organise and deliver some of the most innovative products in the space. The company is a leader in its field, the requirements are as follows: Strong project management experience, work around operations Agile evangelist Help maintain and retain best practises Coaching and organizing long life teams Be a champion of continuous improvement Mentoring/involvement in L&D of staff in development methodologies, both existing and emerging Background An understanding and experience working in IC environment. A good understanding across software, hardware and operations would be ideal. If you are interested and would like to know more, get in touch at Hector@SoCode.co.uk

SoCode is partnered with a revolutionary research and development company who specialise within solving problems for some of the biggest companies in the world. They have predominately been working on their own technologies, but most recently have been leading cutting edge innovations within the virtual reality space. They’re looking to add an experienced Software Manager to their highly talented C++ teams to continually create an exceptional place to work through continuous improvement of practices and people. We are looking for Managers with an engineering background who have hands on experience in coaching and developing individuals / teams. You will need to be familiar with software engineering methodologies and good practice, which will include a broad knowledge and experience within agile methodologies. This role will be requiring significant experience of people management with an empathetic leadership style. You will be managing Software Engineers of an extremely high calibre which will require a growth mindset and the ability to pick up new learning tools / techniques quickly. Your day to day responsibilities will be to conduct regular 1:1s with every person you manage to give and receive feedback, which will be crucial to the way you coach, mentor and develop their engineering talent. Your overall goal with each individual is to determine the best way for them to reach their professional goals, avoid burnout and become the best they can be. This could involve guiding them towards the right training courses, conferences and development areas. You will oversee performance management and providing useful timely feedback and conducting all salary reviews each year. This role will also require you to interview and support the hiring process when building your teams. Personal profile: Great people and communication / collaboration skills Impactful communication and leadership style High level of commitment and energy Open minded – ability to listen to and weigh others’ inputs Strong decision-making ability Confidence, courage, humility, integrity Servant Leadership, and directing self-organising teams Must be willing to travel internationally, as required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies Coaching Experience Awareness of software engineering process C++ programming Line Management of engineering staff Awareness of business strategy Broad understanding of SW design principle Benefits: Salary between £60,000 to £80,000 Share options Non-contractual bonus (up to 10%) Non-contributory pension Free food, drink, tea, coffee (including free social events during the working week such as BBQ’s and more!) All the standard benefits like healthcare / insurance etc Flexible working (core hours of 10-4, with some home working possible on occasion) Fantastic setting with a very modern building on the Science Park (including multiple purpose-built rooms for scrum stand ups and the like).

One of SoCode's biggest and most attractive clients based in Cambridge Science park are looking for an IT Services Team leader. This is a role within a highly skilled and technical team, with an invigorating and challenging IT environment. This company specialises within projects in R & D for some of the biggest companies in the world, including mobile and virtual reality technologies. This role is due to the company’s impressive growth and will be responsible for the delivery of all IT Services within the company, which will include maintaining and supporting the systems, infrastructure and management of staff for its worldwide activities. This is a continuous improvement environment, so good management and technical knowledge is required to keep up with their standards. Your new role will be to line manage the IT Services team and to continually recruit into the team as it grows. You will need to deliver IT solutions into the business while using the industry’s best practices. This role will also be working alongside the Cyber Security and Infrastructure teams for cross team solution delivery. The main day to day responsibilities will be to provide desktop and Server-side support, which will include supporting remote users. You will be responsible for maintaining, sourcing and provision of all IT / communications equipment for the business while smoothly and effectively running the IT Services team You will ideally be a Team leader with experience within Windows 7, 8, 10, Office 365, Linux and Mac OSX. You will have experience within Active Directory Users & Computers and Networking expertise (Switch setup, VLAN configuration, Wi-fi, Firewalls, VPNs, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, cabling and patching). Your new role will need Linux knowledge, especially on the command line and within VMware ESX.

SoCode have a great opportunity for an experienced Process/ Equipment Engineer to join our clients expanding technical team and fab facility in Suffolk. Working as part of the facilities and equipment engineering team, within cleanrooms, laboratories, and service areas this role will include: Support production and product development teams Manage process equipment, maintaining uptime and reduce tool outages Carry out FMEA reviews Drive continuous improvement Fault finding via tools such as vacuum, mechanical and electronics Coordinate PPM and reactive work Assist with the drive to qualify new process equipment Essential skills & experience required: Previous experience supporting a production line Time served apprenticeship, or degree qualified Experience working within the electronics industry Working for a well renowned global company you will be rewarded with career progression, competitive salary and benefits including an annual bonus, pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, free onsite parking and much more! Lcoation: Suffolk Salary: Circa £50,000 per annum DOE For this position you must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship. To apply please click below or alternatively email your CV to shannen@socode.co.uk

We are currently looking to build a new team of Java Developers for our client. They are based within the FinTec sector and hold a strong presence in the Cambridge technology market. As a highly desired place to work this is a rare and not to be missed opportunity to join a growing organisation offering the opportunity to work on new products. With a number of industry heavyweights this is a brilliant chance to join as a Junior to Mid-level developer and continue your learning cycle from some of the best. Having placed several people within the company previously who are still enjoying their time there, we can safely say that this is a great opportunity place to work. My client is incredibly passionate about what they do and creating a work/life balance. Flexible working hours is something they are passionate about including, career progression and continuous self-development. Skill Set Required: - Java (Web C skills would be a bonus) - SQL - Spring/Hibernate - Agile Methodology (Scrum) - Experience working with third party API's, JSON, SOAP, REST - Understanding and ideally commercial experience of Agile methodologies Salary: £30,000 - £45,000 Basic plus an attractive benefits package, including 25 days’ holiday, flexible working hours, Individual performance bonus, range of insurances and protections, 5% Pension and best of all… free parking at the Cambridge offices! At SoCode, we pride ourselves on an attractive referral scheme. If you have Friends, Family or Colleagues looking for a new position in the near future tell them to contact us by either phone or email ensuring they provide us with your name. If we successfully find them a new position, we will provide you with thank you present to show our appreciation. or email colt@socode.co.uk to apply

Recruitment consultant – Norwich SoCode are recruiting for an exceptional hands-on Recruitment Consultant to work from our Cambridge Science Park offices at the heart of the technology community in which we are the market leader. Not only have we have built a small but perfectly formed team on the Norwich Research Park. We now also have a fantastic team of recruiters in Cambrige. Within 2 years of our formation we have achieved more than our wildest expectations and have achieved a highly profitable business, turning over £7m+ within that time. We are happy to consider people from outside of the recruitment industry and can provide excellent training. We require someone who fits the following description: - Be willing to go above and beyond to deliver an excellent service to our clients, - Maturity and Professionalism, - Confident and client facing nature, - Highly Intelligent, - Excellent phone manner, - Self-starter an manage and influence without using a KPI / Target methodology Our plans for this person and office are very wide reaching – therefore this role can carry a path to directorship within 18 months for the right calibre of person. To apply or for more information please forward your CV or contact us directly.

SoCode are proud to be working with an established, and fast-growing technology startup. After a successful round of funding and a detailed roadmap for at least the next two years, the company are going through a period of growth. They already have key releases lined up for January onwards, and ideally the successful candidate would be looking to join mid-late January of 2019. Once these are finished there will be a period of strategy talks about how best to progress, with the chance to put one’s own creative mark on the business. The company’s software helps pharmaceutical businesses save money by streamlining some of the longer, more drawn out processes that go into drug development. Based on the Cambridge Science Park, my client is offering brilliant working conditions in a state-of-the-art facility. Flexibility and autonomous working is very much the environment the client is looking to maintain. Creativity and an ability to think outside the box would also be ideal. Although agile is used when possible, due to regulation waterfall becomes necessary around release date. Therefore, an ability to work in both environments would be useful. The company plans to develop an application later down the line so experience in this remit would also be beneficial. Criteria: Ideally, we are looking for someone who can bring a bit more strength to the front-end development side of the business, as this is something that the company currently lacks At the same time the candidate will possess a strong eye for detail and, have a design mindset HTML CSS Experience in a similar position, especially in a startup environment (non-essential) Benefits: Flexible working (getting the job done is more important than working long hours) 25 days holiday Stock options (EMI)

Senior Automation Engineer 2018 has been a great year for our client, seeing consistent growth each quarter and there's no sign of things slowing down in 2019. They have developed a portal that transforms interaction and user experience across a range of different protection products. This can be utilised by Insurers, Brokers and other Insurance intermediaries to create a more user friendly and seamless experience. Due to the continued onboarding of clients and increased requirements within the Dev teams, they are looking to add to the QA team with the addition of a Senior Automation Engineer in their central London office. Role: Senior Automation Engineer Type: Perm Salary: £45,000 - £65,000 + Bonus & Benefits Location: London You will be working with a small team of .Net developer, combining manual & automated regression testing using a variety of different tools. You will get to work on a number of different projects, using a range of web technologies. You will need to have experience of Agile/Scrum, continuous integration and delivery. Skills & Experience - 3-5 Years experience in a similar role, - Proven experience of using Selenium, C# & Specflow, - Automation experience, - Understanding of TDD & BDD, - Knowledge of Restful APIs, JSON, Javascript, HTML, - Knowledge & understanding of API & load test tools, - Hands-on experience with Visual Studio, C#, Javascript, CSS, HTML, - Strong analytical skills and capability, - Excellent attention to detail. Interviews can be conducted on short notice for this position and SoCode offer a fantastic referral bonus so get in touch if you know someone who would be interested in this opportunity. If you are interested in applying for this role, please email dan@socode.co.uk Keywords – QA, Test, Automation, Selenium, C#

SoCode are proud to be working in partnership with an impressive business based in Central Cambridge, our client is the global provider of networking solutions within communications. Due to organic growth and expansion plans across the board, there is an opportunity for a fast learning engineer looking to further their career. This role is for an Embedded Software Engineer to work for the Onload team at this high flying Cambridge company. Ideal candidate: PhD, first class or 2:1 from well ranked university 3+ years software development experience Commercial experience developing in C Linux kernel and device drivers Good knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP and the sockets interface Responsibilities: Manual and automated testing duties Fitting hardware and cables as required Raising bug reports Working closely with Software Development team and Hardware team. If this opportunity sounds of interest to yourself or someone you know, then please apply via advert or email Leo@socode.co.uk