Graduate Software Developer
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Location: Remote (all UK locations considered) with flexible working arrangements. Our flexible office collaboration spaces for those wishing to use them are in London Bristol Birmingham and Exeter.
Term/Hours: Permanent. Full-time (40 hours per week)
Salary: 30000 depending on experience and qualifications
Immediate Start Required.
Closing date: Monday 9th June 2025 at 09:00
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking to grow our team of developers working across the full stack to deliver cutting edge applications and tools to support our decarbonisation mission. This role requires highly talented individuals who can take a proactive role in problem solving. Successful candidates must be able to show extremely high aptitude in mathematics and analytical problem solving.
Existing coding skills are not required but are desirable and driven candidates with self-taught skills are particularly encouraged to apply. City Science predominantly uses JavaScript and Python but other languages are also used and all experience is considered. Experience working with cloud-based services is also desirable.
The successful candidates will initially focus on supporting with some key projects primarily our Home Energy Model (HEM) work with DESNZ and TfWM Regional Strategic Model.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain a range of applications and tools that support clients to plan monitor evidence and visualise their decarbonisation pathway
Support staff internally to provide insights with a high level of automation/digitisation meeting or exceeding industry standard practices
Manage the full development stack and work flexibly to meet emerging need
Collaborate across teams and grow relationships between consultancy professionals and software developers
Drive new technologies and integrated ways of working
Communicate the case for decarbonisation through cutting edge software tools
ABOUT US
City Science is an SME founded in 2015 with a core mission of delivering decarbonisation. We help organisations who are committed to decarbonisation achieve meaningful and quantifiable carbon reductions quickly and efficiently.
Our software and product development team produce innovative and uniquely insightful digital tools like Cadence and our decarbonisation tool to successfully deliver our projects.
We work collaboratively across our consultancy team made up of transport energy sustainability carbon accounting and applied data science specialists to provide integrated solutions to our clients. Our range of clients is extensive and includes forward-thinking local authorities like Oxfordshire County Council sub-national transport bodies like Englands Economic Heartland and national organisations like Department of Energy Security & Net Zero (see our full list of projects here).
We have a series of emerging services lines (which are all underpinned by market areas) including the following focused within:
Net Zero Strategies & Roadmaps (e.g. Area-based future decarbonisation pathways green growth strategies)
Net Zero Development (e.g. Transport evidence bases for Local Plans and infrastructure strategies)
Sustainable Transport (e.g. Local cycle & walking infrastructure plans (LCWIPs) bus service planning and movement strategies)
Net Zero Transport (e.g. Electric Vehicle charging strategies and net zero transport pathways)
Transport Modelling (e.g. Strategic freight micro-simulation and active travel modelling)
Heat & Retrofit (e.g. Heat pumps sizing internet of things)
Energy Planning (e.g. Local Areas Energy Plans)
Energy Modelling (e.g. DNO capacity building monitoring/benchmarking)
Data Engineering (e.g. Future technology roadmaps)
Carbon Accounting (e.g. Business decarbonisation circular economy)
City Science has a close-knit structure of people of diverse backgrounds all with a shared purpose of ensuring we leave behind a better world. We provide an environment where people feel valued and supported in their career progression including providing significant opportunities to work across a wide variety of exciting projects in our consultancy and software developmentbusinesses.
Job requirements
Minimum 2:1 in a STEM subject (1st class degree PhD or higher-level qualification desirable)
Able to demonstrate very strong mathematical and numerical skills
Drive to learn and develop coding and technology skills across the full stack (experience and/or self-taught skills desirable)
Excellent problem solver
Can demonstrate ability to work as part of a team collaborating effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
Proven science communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences
Passion to make the case for and execute decarbonisation
Rewards & Benefits
Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects across the business
Opportunity for career progression
Ongoing mentoring training and support from senior professionals within the business (including towards professional chartership)
Paid membership of a maximum of two institutions
Flexible working arrangements
25 days annual leave entitlement plus holiday buy and sell policy
Membership of our group pension scheme
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policy
Eye care vouchers
Cycle to work scheme
Employee assistance program
FURTHER INFORMATION
We are building a team who are motivated by collaboration with the desire to solve problems for our customers. We want people to own their field of responsibility take decisions be pro-active and have pride in everything they do. Our team of experts includes prize-winning consultants experienced technologists and distinguished academics.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and we passionately believe in supporting each person reach their full potential.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
1. Complete the application questions and try to keepyour responses personal without using AI or automated tools. We value authenticity and genuine responses.
2. If successful after the first screening process you will be invited to take part in numerical or aptitude test.
3. Teams technical interview (non-coding based problems).
4. Soft skills interview around ethos.
We are only accepting direct applications - no recruiters please.
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Employment Type
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