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James Godfrey
Senior JavaScript Specialist
I am a specialist recruiter with over 7 years of experience in the recruitment industry, previously working in both the medical and finance markets.
My role at Darwin is covering front-end development within the Swedish Team, placing candidates predominantly in Stockholm. My main focuses are:
JavaScript | Java-Script | Java Script | JS | Front-End | Front End | FrontEnd | FE
TypeScript | Typescript | Type Script
JavaScript Frameworks | JS-Frameworks
Angular.js | Angularjs | Angular2.js | Angular2 | Angular 2| Angular4.js | Angular4 | Angular 4
React.js | Reactjs | React native | React.js native | React native.js
Node.js | Nodejs
Vue.js
jQuery
EcmaScript | Ecma-Script | Ecma Script | ES6 | ES6+ | ES7
Backbone.js | Backbonejs
Gulp.js | Gulpjs
D3.js | D3js
Vanilla.js | Vanillajs | AJAX
HTML | HTML5 | CSS | CSS3 | SASS | LESS
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James Godfrey's Testimonials
James is always very professional and offers a first class service! I would recommend James to any client.
Anon, Candidate
I found James to be helpful and knowledgeable, eager to not only match the needs of the employer but also that of the prospective employee. I would recommend him to anyone looking for the next step in their careers.
Anon, Candidate
James is very professional and does his very best to find a suitable position. Would definitely recommend him - just like I do now.
Anon, Candidate
This guy’s a nice recruiter and well knowledgeable web person. Always available. He thinks on the cutting edge of scheduling, motivation, future activity. Any newcomer would be lucky to have James as a recruiter.
Anon, JavaScript Developer, Candidate
James were an excellent recruiter that got me a new job very quickly. Patient and positive. I would absolutely recommend you working with him. With his help not only did I get a new job, but also a major raise. Very happy to have been working with him!
Anon, JavaScript Developer, Candidate
James is very professional in what he does and his valuable work meant the whole recruitment process for me went smoothly and secured me with the right opportunity in Stockholm.
Anon, JavaScript Developer, Candidate
I would like to thank you for all your trouble when searching a job for me. You are an extremely good recruiter, polite and just plain perfect for this job. There are no words to describe! I would highly recommend you all day long.
Anon, Candidate
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Systems Engineer - Node.js
Stockholm, Sweden
40000.00kr - 52000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a Frontend Developer on behalf of a company in Stockholm that was founded in 2016 with the goal to radically improve how we manage and care for the buildings that we spend a major part of our lives in. Through experiences in architecture, real estate and modern web-technology, they realized that there is a great need to solve issues connected to managing all the information around buildings. They are now building a platform that provides a solution, in the form of searchable and collaborative indoor information maps, using industry file formats. Their mission is to realize a future where we have access to information about indoor spaces as easily as we have access to street maps today. They make it natural to find information about things and places inside a building just by searching for it on a map, in the same way we search for things in the city streets every day. Regardless if you are working in an office, or have a more hands-on role maintaining buildings, they will enable you to find the information and location you are looking for, whether it is real-time data about temperature and noise, the location of a meeting room, or the ventilation maintenance history. When information about their indoor spaces becomes available to everyone who needs it, tedious work can be reduced and better decisions can be made. By making this possible, they aim to not only make building maintenance more sustainable, but the experience of spending time in them more enjoyable. · Has worked with backend development for at least 3 years · Has in-depth experience working with SQL databases; administering, building data models, tweaking queries · Has meaningful experience with setting up infrastructure and systems, e.g. configuring cloud environments, deployment pipelines, monitoring, kubernetes, certificates, networking, "devops", etc · Has worked with javascript or GraphQL to some meaningful extent. · Has worked in a smaller product company or startup and understand the required mindset and expectations. · Interest in and knowledge of IT-security · Has a good understanding and interest in general computer science concepts and contemporary technology topics, likely has at least a bachelor degree. · A strong passion for using technology as a tool for solving real user problems, and finding value and motivation in the same. · General important positive traits; sense of responsibility, communication skills, dependability, empathy · Someone that is looking to join a small product company and is motivated by solving real problems and attracted by the concept of co-ownership as part of the compensation package. Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Frontend Developer - UX/UI
Gothenburg, Sweden
45000.00kr - 55000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a UX/UI Developer in Gothenburg for a business with 95 employees that was founded in 1985 by 4 ambitious engineers. One of their first assignments was to build tools for the computer system onboard the Swedish Air Force fighter aircraft Viggen. Then came an assignment from the Swedish Air Force, which called for sophisticated real-time handling of geographic data. It is from this project that their first product was born. In the mid-90s, they secured a large civilian aviation project that led to their major creation. This technology was quickly adopted by the Swedish Armed Forces, Swedish Maritime Administration and Swedish Transport Administration as their preferred geoserver platform. This company builds software components and systems that are deployed in mission-critical applications across a wide range of industries: defence, transport (land, sea and air), security, public safety and automotive. It is the mission-critical nature of their customers' work that animates them and unites everything they do. Expectations You will be an important cog in their innovation team that drives the development of new functionality and software for socially critical systems such as 112 and SOS Alarm. When you start with them, you will be part of a journey where you will take their UI to a new level and where they will also migrate into a new UI architecture. Together with the development teams, you will ensure that this is done in the best possible way. Their keywords are user-friendly, automation and simplicity. They are looking for you who has a passion for developing and prototyping user interfaces (UI) that meet the requirements for user experiences (UX). You are innovative and want to show the way in modern UI, but also have an appetite for modern technologies and tools in the field. In addition to your university / college degree in software development, you as a person are a team player with a positive attitude and can-do mentality. Furthermore, you are good at finding solutions that you are good at conveying in speech and writing in both Swedish and English. They see that you have at least three years' experience of: Front-End UI development Git Tools such as WPF, WinForms, React, Redux or similar It is an advantage if you also have experience of: UX Design Graphic Design, e.g. icons, illustrations Tools such as Adobe, Figma or similar Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Senior Python Developer
Stockholm, Sweden
45000.00kr - 55000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for Senior Python Developers on behalf of a consultancy company in Stockholm that is located in Stureplan right next to the "Mushroom". Stureplan is well known for its most famous & expensive restaurants/bars in the local area, whilst also being the home in Stockholm for world famous designer brands such as Versace, Hugo Boss, Gucci & Louis Vuitton to also be located there too. This business was founded in 2015, currently has 26 employees and are part of a wider global organisation which set up in 2012, with 400+ employees across 20 companies in x10 locations - Malmo, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Linkoping, Norrkoping, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. This consultancy creates environments and cultures that suits the consultants, whilst encouraging you to strive to be better. They also ensure having fun is essential in the workplace and performing at your best, but joy is the main part of professional development at this consultancy. This business shapes and creates their environment to be able to perform on top, professionally as well as individually. They develop and design striking front-end projects across the business. This business also leads and manages in their pursuit of true value and work on projects for big corporate companies like Spotify, Klarna to small independent start-ups, so they will match an assignment with what best fits your career expectations and interests. Experience Required 5+ Year's experience within Backend Development You should be a master of Python Has recent framework knowledge in Django / Dash / Flask / Falcon Fluent Swedish in both speech and writing. Benefits Offered Choose your own Laptop / Mobile Phone 3000 Sek Gym Membership 6% Pension Scheme 30 Days Holiday per year Xmas Party (Q Group in one location) Summer parties Friday Beers Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Engineering Manager
Stockholm, Sweden
55000.00kr - 70000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for an Engineering Manager in Stockholm for an Edtech business that was formed in 2012, currently has 70 employees across x2 offices with 13 in their development team and looking to scale up to 120 people by next December. This company is a fast-growing business to radically improve learning for 1.5 billion school students globally. They pursue their vision, because there are few more important jobs than educating the world's young people. No other single factor has a higher impact on the prosperity and well-being of humanity than education, yet technology has previously not delivered on any of its promises of better learning. Together they will help students globally to radically improve their learning abilities. To enjoy working in this position you'll also be collaborating with their CTO and engineers on tech-wide matters such as hiring, leadership, defining new roles, refining processes and development methodology. To enjoy taking on this opportunity you are comfortable driving organisation changes, communicating clearly and making the decisions needed. As a leader you'll of course collaborate closely with other supportive leaders in the organisation! Responsibilities · Attract and hire top engineers · Onboard, coach and retain engineers: having regular regular 1:1's, feedback conversations and support two small tech teams. · Drive and improve our technical processes and frameworks across teams (e.g. how we work, our progression framework & career paths, incident management process) · Drive, identify, facilitate and guide teams in continuous improvements and team dynamics to ensure we are the best team we can be. · Drive technical projects and work closely with product teams to successfully develop their products, through great engineering and organisation practices. Requirements · A technical background and high interest in software development, complemented with a Bachelor/Master in Computer Science · Solid leadership experience, with openness, humbleness, radical candor and motivating and inspiring people around vision and plans · Hired and managed engineering teams in fast-growing SaaS product organisations What they offer: · 30 Days Holiday · 1 Week Paid Remote working in the Mediterranean · Gym Membership - 5000sek · Fika Days · Free Breakfast and Fruit · Shares Program after 6 month probation · iPhone and MacBook paid equipment Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Systems Engineer - Node.js
Stockholm, Sweden
40000.00kr - 52000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a Frontend Developer on behalf of a company in Stockholm that was founded in 2016 with the goal to radically improve how we manage and care for the buildings that we spend a major part of our lives in. Through experiences in architecture, real estate and modern web-technology, they realized that there is a great need to solve issues connected to managing all the information around buildings. They are now building a platform that provides a solution, in the form of searchable and collaborative indoor information maps, using industry file formats. Their mission is to realize a future where we have access to information about indoor spaces as easily as we have access to street maps today. They make it natural to find information about things and places inside a building just by searching for it on a map, in the same way we search for things in the city streets every day. Regardless if you are working in an office, or have a more hands-on role maintaining buildings, they will enable you to find the information and location you are looking for, whether it is real-time data about temperature and noise, the location of a meeting room, or the ventilation maintenance history. When information about their indoor spaces becomes available to everyone who needs it, tedious work can be reduced and better decisions can be made. By making this possible, they aim to not only make building maintenance more sustainable, but the experience of spending time in them more enjoyable. · Has worked with backend development for at least 3 years · Has in-depth experience working with SQL databases; administering, building data models, tweaking queries · Has meaningful experience with setting up infrastructure and systems, e.g. configuring cloud environments, deployment pipelines, monitoring, kubernetes, certificates, networking, "devops", etc · Has worked with javascript or GraphQL to some meaningful extent. · Has worked in a smaller product company or startup and understand the required mindset and expectations. · Interest in and knowledge of IT-security · Has a good understanding and interest in general computer science concepts and contemporary technology topics, likely has at least a bachelor degree. · A strong passion for using technology as a tool for solving real user problems, and finding value and motivation in the same. · General important positive traits; sense of responsibility, communication skills, dependability, empathy · Someone that is looking to join a small product company and is motivated by solving real problems and attracted by the concept of co-ownership as part of the compensation package. Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Senior Javascript Developer
Stockholm, Sweden
45000.00kr - 55000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for Senior Javascript Developers on behalf of a consultancy company in Stockholm that is located in Stureplan right next to the "Mushroom". Stureplan is well known for its most famous & expensive restaurants/bars in the local area, whilst also being the home in Stockholm for world famous designer brands such as Versace, Hugo Boss, Gucci & Louis Vuitton to also be located there too. This business was founded in 2015, currently has 26 employees and are part of a wider global organisation which set up in 2012, with 400+ employees across 20 companies in x10 locations - Malmo, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Linkoping, Norrkoping, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. This consultancy creates environments and cultures that suits the consultants, whilst encouraging you to strive to be better. They also ensure having fun is essential in the workplace and performing at your best, but joy is the main part of professional development at this consultancy. This business shapes and creates their environment to be able to perform on top, professionally as well as individually. They develop and design striking front-end projects across the business. This business also leads and manages in their pursuit of true value and work on projects for big corporate companies like Spotify, Klarna to small independent start-ups, so they will match an assignment with what best fits your career expectations and interests. Experience Required 5+ Year's experience within Frontend / Fullstack Development You should be a master of Javascript / Typescript Has recent framework knowledge in React / Vue / Node.js Fluent Swedish in both speech and writing. Benefits Offered Choose your own Laptop / Mobile Phone 3000 Sek Gym Membership 6% Pension Scheme 30 Days Holiday per year Xmas Party (Whole company group in one location) Summer parties Friday Beers Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Python Developer
Stockholm, Sweden
40000.00kr - 45000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a Backend Python Developer in Stockholm for a business that was formed in 2012. This business measures visitor flows by capturing anonymized Wi-Fi signals in smart phones and are able to do measurements in both outdoor and indoor environments. Visitor flows are measured anonymously and the method is unique in being approved by the Swedish Data Protection Authority. By having access to detailed data about how a visitor behaves, entities such as municipalities, real estate companies, and retailers are given a better opportunity to offer a higher quality to the visit. At the same time, better knowledge of visitor flows can aid in the selection of store locations and valuation of property. To begin with, they worked with the biggest retail chain in Sweden on position of goods and indoor navigation. The detailed customer statistics that used to be only available to e-commerce is now also available for physical shops. This is only the beginning of the digital alteration that we are working on to make towns and physical shopping even more effective and profitable. Experience There are jobs - and then there are opportunities. The chance to do the kind of work that builds something meaningful and ground-breaking. The right environment to challenge yourself and learn new skills. The prospect of being surrounded by smart, ambitious and motivated people, day-in, day-out. That's the kind of work you can expect here. They are looking for an individual who is self-motivated, independent, highly experienced and capable in this field. They are processing an enormous amount of data each day and the rate is increasing rapidly. The data processing system has to keep up with the increasing data rate and they are building a state of the art system. You will be working closely with the rest of the tech team to improve and rebuild the existing data processing system in order to allow the business to soar to greater heights by constantly pushing the boundaries to scale regionally as well as globally. Necessary skills · 5+ years of backend development experience. · Expert in Python. · Experience building big data processing systems. · Database development and maintenance. · Data streaming experience (Kafka for example). Keywords: python, postgres, postgis, rabbitmq, mqtt, heroku, kubernetes, data processing, machine learning. Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Senior Frontend Developer - Vue.js
Stockholm, Sweden
48000.00kr - 58000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a Senior Frontend Developer in Stockholm for an Edtech business that was formed in 2012, currently has 70 employees across x2 offices with 13 in their development team and looking to scale up to 120 people by next December. This company is a fast-growing business to radically improve learning for 1.5 billion school students globally. They pursue their vision, because there are few more important jobs than educating the world's young people. No other single factor has a higher impact on the prosperity and well-being of humanity than education, yet technology has previously not delivered on any of its promises of better learning. Together they will help students globally to radically improve their learning abilities. They will collaborate a lot (yes, a lot), and together with Product Managers and Designers you will play an important part in both product ideation and development. To enjoy working in this position you thrive when working within a wide range of technologies, and your heart is ticking some extra for the user facing part of the product. You enjoy being in a position where you can spread front-end magic throughout the team and help others to become better! As we today are a bunch of dedicated developers working full-stack from infrastructure, deployment, database and Python+Django back-end up to front-end apps with Vue.js, and Angular (powered by Webpack) we need you to be a solid frontend developer, but we also need your help and guidance in taking the front-end part of the product to the next level. You will work in small cross-functional product teams with a lot of autonomy and responsibility to structure and drive effective architecture patterns and improvements, always with a mission to enable the teams to move faster in a standardised way and to make the user love their product! Requirements · 5+ years of professional Front end web development experience · Proven JavaScript/ES knowledge · Proven CSS knowledge, architecture, strategies, patterns/PWA etc. · Experience in interaction design, creating both functional and delightful experiences · Lean UX mindset · Experience in optimisation for the whole stack · Exceptional English in written and oral communication. · Advanced level of knowledge in development & maintaining Design Systems · Successfully migrated old technology to new component-based · Depth in any front-end framework such as React/Vue/Angular · Automated testing (unit, integration, selenium) and strategies · Continuous integration, deployments, builds Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Test Automation Engineer
Stockholm, Sweden
42000.00kr - 56000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring on behalf of a successful consultancy in Stockholm who was founded in 2014 and currently operates at 40+ employees. This consultancy's first customer was Apoteket, which was followed by among others, Tele2, If, Clear Channel and the Catholic Church. The company began through the owners having a shared vision "IT As It Should Be". This vision was brought about by the fact that both founders had experienced companies that treated both employees and customers inadequately, which inevitably led to failed projects and employees who had taken sick leave. With the power of vision, they wanted to change this and build a workplace that was so good that they themselves wanted to work there, where employees could reach their full potential and deliver true customer value rather than hours worked. The business in 2018 had amounted sales of 43 million+ Sek with healthy profitability. In 2018, they were certified in quality and environment in accordance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. A clear sign that the business delivers with quality and takes responsibility for the environmental impact the company stands for. Another milestone in 2018 was they were awarded 10th place on the Great Place To Works list of the best workplaces in Sweden. Experience Required Right now, they are looking for a Test Automation Engineer for one of their exciting customers. You probably have some kind of technical training, but the most important thing is that you know your stuff! Some of the techniques you should master are: 5+ Year's experience within Test Mainly Java knowledge with Junit .NET background is meritorious Selenium and/or Cypress API Testing SQL Micro services Jenkins/TeamCity/Octopus or Equivalent Fluent in Swedish Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Senior Javascript Developer 2
Stockholm, Sweden
46000.00kr - 58000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring on behalf of a successful consultancy in Stockholm who was founded in 2014 and currently operates at 40+ employees. This consultancy's first customer was Apoteket, which was followed by among others, Tele2, If, Clear Channel and the Catholic Church. The company began through the owners having a shared vision "IT As It Should Be". This vision was brought about by the fact that both founders had experienced companies that treated both employees and customers inadequately, which inevitably led to failed projects and employees who had taken sick leave. With the power of vision, they wanted to change this and build a workplace that was so good that they themselves wanted to work there, where employees could reach their full potential and deliver true customer value rather than hours worked. The business in 2018 had amounted sales of 43 million+ Sek with healthy profitability. In 2018, they were certified in quality and environment in accordance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. A clear sign that the business delivers with quality and takes responsibility for the environmental impact the company stands for. Another milestone in 2018 was they were awarded 10th place on the Great Place To Works list of the best workplaces in Sweden. Experience Required Right now, they are looking for a Javascript developer for one of their exciting customers. You probably have some kind of technical training, but the most important thing is that you know your stuff! Some of the techniques you should master are: · JavaScript / typescript · React.js / Redux (Essential) · Node.js (Desirable) · Express.js · Docker · Jenkins · AWS Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Data Engineer
Stockholm, Sweden
45000.00kr - 60000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a Data Engineer in Stockholm for a fintech business that was formed in 2009, started out in Iceland with a mission to help people lead better financial lives through creating a mutually beneficial ecosystem for people, banks and businesses. This company is the European market leader of personal finance management and next-generation digital banking solutions. With their current implementation worldwide, they are already serving 65+ million digital banking users in 30 countries. The business currently has 150 employees with 4 main offices in Iceland, London (HQ), Stockholm and Warsaw as well as 3 smaller offices in Barcelona, New York and Singapore. They have 30+ employees in their Stockholm office, in which the development team consists of 10 people, which they are looking to expanding to 12. They are looking for a passionate and experienced Data Engineer to join the Rewards team in Stockholm. As a Data Engineer in the Rewards team you will play a key role in making excellent new data-driven products by building reliable and scalable data pipelines for their Rewards platform and being responsible for maintaining and improving their existing data pipelines. The platform is built on top of multiple databases, each containing hundreds of millions of rows. You will work in a team to design and implement data architectures for ingestion, processing and surfacing of data in the Rewards platform using Redshift, PostgreSQL and Airflow on AWS. Who you are: · You have a proven record of personally taking large data projects from ideation to implementation. · You are knowledgeable about data modelling, data access and data storage techniques. · You have experience in designing and training machine learning models used for decision making. · You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability and testability. · You are passionate about creating clean code and have a strong foundation in architecting, coding, building and operating large data pipelines. · You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas. · You value team success over personal success. Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Backend Python Developer
Stockholm, Sweden
45000.00kr - 60000.00kr per month
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a Software Engineer in Stockholm for a fintech business that was formed in 2009, started out in Iceland with a mission to help people lead better financial lives through creating a mutually beneficial ecosystem for people, banks and businesses. This company is the European market leader of personal finance management and next-generation digital banking solutions. With their current implementation worldwide, they are already serving 65+ million digital banking users in 30 countries. The business currently has 150 employees with 4 main offices in Iceland, London (HQ), Stockholm and Warsaw as well as 3 smaller offices in Barcelona, New York and Singapore. They have 30+ employees in their Stockholm office, in which the development team consists of 10 people, which they are looking to expanding to 12. They are looking for an experienced software engineer to join the Rewards team in Stockholm. As a software engineer in the Rewards team you will be doing everything from seamlessly integrating banks into their Rewards platform and supporting existing bank integrations to designing and implementing a reliable and scalable service infrastructure to power the Rewards platform. You will work with a bunch of different technologies, protocols and data formats like VPN, REST, GraphQL, Docker, TLS/SSL, JSON and XML to name a few, but more importantly you will work in a team to deliver reliable and scalable services running on AWS. Who you are: · You have 3+ years of professional experience with AWS infrastructure and designing, writing and deploying microservices. · You have good knowledge working with Python · You have great technical documentation skills. · You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability and testability. · You are passionate about creating clean code. · You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and can communicate your ideas. · You value team success over personal success. Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.