Byrd Connections

Freelance Web Developer (Remote) Location: Remote (UK-based preferred) Job Type: Freelance / On-Call About Us: Byrd Connections is a growing creative and digital agency working with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across various industries. We specialise in website design, branding, and digital strategy—connecting brands with the right talent to bring their vision to life. The Role: We’re looking for a passionate and reliable Freelance Web Developer to join our on-call team. This is a great opportunity for developers who want to: - Build their portfolio by working on real client projects. - Take on flexible, on-call assignments that fit around other commitments. - Showcase their skills and grow their reputation with a creative, forward-thinking team. You’ll work closely with our project managers, designers, and clients to deliver high-quality, responsive websites and help businesses establish a strong digital presence. What We’re Looking For: - An eye for clean, responsive design and good UX. - Ability to interpret briefs and collaborate with creatives. - Self-motivated with strong communication skills. - Available for on-call project work with reasonable turnaround times. What You’ll Gain: - Portfolio-building opportunities with real SME clients. - Exposure to a variety of projects and industries. - Flexibility to work remotely and on your schedule. - A chance to grow with us as we expand our network and client base. Interested? Send us your CV, and a link to your portfolio.

Trainee Data Scientist - No Experience Required Are you looking to kick-start a new career as a Data Scientist? We are recruiting for companies who are looking to employ our Data Science Traineeship graduates to keep up with their growth. The best part is you will not need any previous experience as full training will be provided. You will also have the reassurance of a job guarantee (£25K-£45K) within 20 miles of your location upon completion. Whether you are working full time, part-time or unemployed, this package has the flexibility to be completed at a pace that suits you. The traineeship is completed in 4 easy steps, you can be placed into your first role in as little as 6-12 months: Step 1 - Full Data Science Career Training You will begin your data science journey by studying a selection of industry-recognized courses that will take you from beginner level all the way through to being qualified to work in a junior Data Scientist role. Through the interactive courses, you will gain knowledge in Python, R, Machine Learning, AI, and much more. You will also complete mini projects to gain practical experience and test your skills while you study. Step 2 - CompTIA Data+ CompTIA Data+ is an early-career data analytics certification for professionals tasked with developing and promoting data-driven business decision-making. It teaches Data Mining, Visualization, Data Governance & Data Analytics. In any industry, gaining official certifications is very important in the recruitment process. Therefore, this globally recognized certification will enhance your CV and make you stand out from the crowd. Step 3 - Official Exam The CompTIA Data+ exam will certify that you have knowledge and skills required to transform business requirements in support of data-driven decisions through mining and manipulating data, applying basic statistical methods, and analysing complex datasets while adhering to governance and quality standards. The exam is 90 minutes long and can be sat either in your local testing centre or online. Step 4 - Practical Projects Now that you have completed your theory training and official exams, you will be assigned 2 practical projects by your tutor. The projects are the most important part of the traineeship as it will showcase to employers that you have skills required to work in a data science role. The projects will use real world scenarios where you be utilising all of the skill that you have learned. Whilst you are progressing through the projects, you will have the ongoing support from your personal tutor. Once both projects have been completed and given the final sign off, you will have completed the traineeship and will be ready to move onto the recruitment stage. Your Data Science Role Once you have completed all of the mandatory training, which includes the online courses, practical projects and building your own portfolio, we will place you into a Data Scientist role, where you will be guaranteed a starting salary of £25K-£45K. We have partnered with a number of large organisations strategically located throughout the UK, providing a nationwide reach of jobs for our candidates. We guarantee you will be offered a job upon completion, or we will refund you 100% of your course fees back. We have a proven track record of placing 1000+ candidates into new roles each year. Check out our website for our latest success stories. Read through the information? Passionate about starting a career in data science? Apply now and one of our friendly advisors will be in touch.

Are you looking to kick-start a new career as a web developer? We are recruiting for companies who are looking to employ our Coding Traineeship graduates to keep up with their growth. The best part is you will not need any previous experience as full training will be provided. You will also have the reassurance of a job guarantee (£25K-£45K) within 20 miles of your location upon completion. Whether you are working full time, part-time or unemployed, this package has the flexibility to be completed at a pace that suits you. The traineeship is completed in 3 easy steps. Step 1 - Front End Coding Complete a selection of professional and industry-recognised coding courses covering HTML, CSS and Javascript. Step 2 - Back End Coding + Practical Projects You will be studying all the relevant back end coding languages and gaining skills that will qualify you as a fully-fledged web developer. Step 2 is heavily focused on the practical element of learning. Step 3 - Building your portfolio The final step will be to build your own portfolio website. The portfolio plays a key part in the hiring process as it gives the employer a real insight into your level of ability, creativity and personality. Your Web Developer Role Once you have completed all of the mandatory training, we will place you into a Web Development/Software Development role, where you will be guaranteed a 25k-40k salary. We have partnered with a number of large organisations strategically located throughout the UK, providing a nationwide reach of jobs for our candidates. At a one off cost of £1499, or a deposit of £212 followed by 10 interest free monthly instalments of £148, this represents a great opportunity to start a rewarding career in IT and have a real career ladder to start climbing. If you are not offered a role at the end of the training we will refund 100% of your course fees. Apply now and one of our friendly advisors will be in touch.

We're hiring for a Senior Software Engineer within our fundamental modelling team. The primary goal of this team is to improve the predictive power of our models based on historical event data. The quality of our models is incredibly important to us and improvements on our models directly impact financial performance. You'll be working closely with researchers, helping maintain trading infrastructure, and helping the team scale and improve the systems at the heart of the business. You'll be working on data pipelines, build, support systems and infrastructure. A very wide ranging role requiring extensive experience across multiple technologies. The ideal candidate will be highly creative and enjoy generating new, innovative ways to tackle problems and suggesting improvements to existing methodologies; you'll have a high level of autonomy to design and implement tooling and systems in a way you feel would be best suited to the problem at hand. A strong knowledge of operating systems, networks, software architecture and practical experience in deploying that knowledge is essential. Knowledge of sports betting or horse racing, which this team focuses on, isn’t required. We are a hybrid working company, with staff coming into the office in London every Thursday, plus any other days they like, working remotely at home the rest of the time. Our typical working hours are 10 am to 6 pm UK time, Monday to Friday, but we support flexible working and trust our team to manage their own schedules to meet their goals. We're targeting Senior Developers for this role, ideally with several years of experience in mission-critical systems where precision, reliability, and fault tolerance are paramount. Our interview process is as follows: A brief screening call to give you some more information about the role, answer any of your initial questions and to check your suitability for the role. A 60 minute technical interview with our CTO and/or Team Lead, discussing your previous experience and also discussing some systems design challenges and how you'd approach them A collaborative coding assessment day, working with one of our team on some sample problems. This isn't leetcode, it's more about systems design and your approach to tradeoffs. This will last from 10am until 4pm UK time. An in person "meet the team" at our London office. Requirements At least one, ideally both of: A degree in a technical subject from a top university demonstrating your ability to grasp and apply complex concepts. Several years of senior-level experience in teams building mission-critical systems where precision and reliability are essential to success. Demonstrated professional expertise in the following areas: Fluency in multiple programming languages, with substantial experience in Python as a priority. Development and maintenance of Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines. Complex deployments on AWS Docker or comparable containerization technologies. Nice to have experience: Experience using numpy/pandas/torch/etc Experience with Golang Benefits Our salary range for the role is £40,000 to £80,000, depending on experience and interview performance. List of benefits: Participation in the uncapped company bonus scheme, typically 10-20% of salary depending on experience. 10% matched pension contributions Private healthcare insurance Long term illness insurance Gym membership Choose your own hardware & setup for your development environment.