Careers with OnTheMove - Graduate Developer

Winnersh Triangle, Reading, Berkshire ( * )
£39,500 with planned progression to £46,000 package in 6 months

Do you want real skills and career progress, with rewards to match?

Are you interested in solving hard technical challenges but with a commercial focus and customer interaction?

If the answer to these questions is YES, then we would like to hear from you.

OnTheMove is a software product, built using the latest web technology, that allows organisations to quickly build and deploy modern, easy to use, high productivity user interfaces for corporate business applications. We also build market vertical applications using the core product. Our customers have been extremely successful with the product and we believe it has a great future in an expanding range of sub-markets.

Because our core technology products are, in essence, a toolkit from which our customers create a final configuration to deploy to users, we need the very best developers who have the intellectual rigour to think through all the ways what they are coding might be used and have the determination to build solutions that will be robust in all circumstances. That intellectual rigour is far more important than prior knowledge of any particular language or toolset.

After a short initial training period, you will be working on core product code to address real customer requirements. The work involves:

  • building high quality solutions, often with minimal supervision
  • developing test cases
  • supporting our customers and internal consultants in their use of the product – typically speaking to people to understand what they are trying to achieve, possibly guiding them to a different approach to the problem and identifying the root cause of genuine issues
  • working on customer implementation projects, configuring OnTheMove to the needs of particular organisations
  • configuring and supporting vertical application products built in our core technology

For people who show the right degree of determination, communication skills and technical aptitude, there will be the opportunity to rapidly advance into areas such as design and more customer interaction.

Prior Experience

We are also interested in people with 0 to 2 or 3 years high quality post graduation experience - although no amount of experience will act as a substitute for the critically important academic and aptitude requirements. For candidates with meaningful relevant experience, we would expect to adjust the starting salary appropriately.

The Rewards

We aim to recruit the very best graduates and the salary packages that we offer reflect this.

  • When You Join
    If you join as a new or recent graduate, we start you on a basic salary of £38,000 + £1,500 car allowance. In addition, we pay a relocation allowance of up to £1,000 to people moving into the area.
  • After 6 Months
    Within 6 months, assuming normal progress, you should be on a package of about £48,000 comprising:
    • a basic salary of at least £45,500
    • a car allowance of £1,500
    • a contribution of up to 5% of basic salary on a matching basis into your own personal pension scheme

The Requirements

In order to apply, you need:

  • a 2:1 or better in a numerate discipline from a reputable institution (or equivalent if you studied outside of the UK). If you have not yet graduated, you need a reasonable expectation of a suitable degree. We recruit from a wide range of backgrounds. You do not need to have a Computer Science degree - we are just as interested to hear from candidates with other numerate degrees such as Maths, Physics and Engineering.
  • 3 A levels at grade A* or A in serious subjects (or equivalent if you studied outside of the UK)
  • excellent and well-proven programming skills in a 3GL. These don't need to be in a particular language although but we have special interest in any of the following:
    • HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript including frameworks such as React and Knockout
    • Object Oriented languages in general
    • anything involving a high degree of abstraction
  • a strong desire to work in a small team of genuine experts where you will be well supported but also where your contribution will really matter and where a degree of self-sufficiency is required to succeed
  • enthusiasm, determination and a sense of "mission"
  • relevant commercial experience, e.g. an industrial placement, is a distinct advantage

Applications

Please send your CV, together with a covering letter, to recruitment@onthemovesw.com

When applying, please:

  • specify that you are applying for the Graduate Developer role
  • provide as much detail as possible about any real world experience, exams taken and grades achieved
  • tell us where you first saw our recruitment advertising

We aim to have a short, simple and effective process. Once we have received your application, if we are interested in taking things further, the typical process will be:

  • a short Zoom interview
  • an online technical interview where you write some code with one of our existing team members
  • a face to face interview

We often make job offers within a month of receiving an initial application – sometimes even faster.

Work Permits

We are a sponsor for skilled worker visas and, if you are currently in the UK on an education or graduate visa, we can make an application for a work permit prior to expiry of your graduate visa. All our normal requirements apply and it must be practical for us to interview you in the UK.

(*) Offices

We are currently based in Bracknell and any interviews will take place in our Bracknell office. Depending on start date, the successful applicant may also start working for us in Bracknell. In May 2025, we will be moving office to Winnersh Triangle.

This is a 100% office based job, with no hybrid / remote component, as we believe that it is the best way to foster effective team work and increase the skills of the less experienced members of our team.