Graduate Software Developer

at  City Science

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 and Exeter.
Term/Hours: Permanent (6-month probation). Full-time (40 hours per week)
Salary: ca. £30,000+ depending on experience and qualifications

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.
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 England’s Economic Heartland and national organisations like Department of Energy Security & Net Zero (see our full list of projects here).
Our consultancy team works closely with our software and product development team who produce innovative and uniquely insightful digital tools, like Cadence and our decarbonisation tool, to successfully deliver our projects.

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 business.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

1. Complete the application questions and try to keep your 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
   Please note: We are looking for candidates who have 1st class degree, PhD or higher-level qualification within a STEM subject

ABOUT THE ROLE

City Science is looking to grow its 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.

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
• BSc 2:1 or better 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