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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title Developer Responsible to Chief Product Officer

Location Remote Division Group Product Strategy

Date February 2022 Hours 37.5

Key purpose of job

Juniper Education is seeking an enthusiastic, committed and friendly Developer, working as part of

a team to deliver a new project.

The project will focus on disrupting the Education Technology market by creating a cloud-based

platform that will be used by schools on a day-to-day basis, by combining data, innovative user

interfaces and integrating other products in the Juniper portfolio.

The role is extremely collaborative and will involve working closely within a team of three – five

developers, with the support and mentorship of a UK-based Lead Developer.

Why Juniper? We believe strongly in our mission to help schools support their students and staff,

creating more Child-Time. We’re looking for best of breed developers who are positive, ambitious

and can demonstrate strong engineering principles. You’ll receive regular, helpful feedback, with a

clear progression path. We’ll be looking for ways to grow your expertise and develop your skills.

We focus on best practice: we’re committed to information security, automated testing, CI/CD

pipelines, code linting, and your personal development – creating an environment that supports you

doing the best work of your career.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Work within software development teams focusing on pragmatic delivery of value-based

solutions

• Work to a secure first mindset with every aspect of your work

• Communicate clearly and be able to work with people from both technical and non-technical

backgrounds

• Participate and work with the team to deliver business requirements

• Support and mentor other team members

• Deliver cloud hosted solutions

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• Implement software solution testing though techniques such as BDD, TDD, Integration

Testing and Unit Testing

• Support the creation of backlogs

• Demonstrate a continuous growth mindset

You’ll need experience of…

• Building microservices and APIs using Ruby on Rails

• A relational database such as MySQL,

• Automated testing (both TDD and BDD), ideally using RSpec

• Distributed version control using Git

Key attributes and competences

• Excellent communication skills to enable working with a wide variety of stakeholders from

both technical and non-technical backgrounds, with a collaborative and friendly approach.

• Experience of working within an automated delivery environment.

• Familiarity with and a pragmatic approach to Agile working practices.

• Attention to detail, with an excellent command of written and spoken English.

Authorised by:

Date:

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AGENCY CANDIDATE REQUEST FORM

Job Title Unity Developer

Department & Location Systems Development Remote

Reporting to Andy Ben-Dyke

Responsible for n/a

Hours & Salary 37.5 £50k - £60k

Any other renumeration details Please provide any details such as commission, bonus etc

All CVs to be sent to hr@srt-marine.com

Company Overview SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a UK stock market listed (AIM) medium sized, entrepreneurial company which is leading the global surge in maritime domain awareness technologies, products and systems. Our solutions enhance maritime security, safety, management, and efficiency across the entire marine domain from waterways, ports and infrastructure to coasts and the open ocean. Our products are used around the world to track, monitor and manage large numbers of boats operating along extended coast lines and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ). The company is the recognised global leader in Marine Domain Awareness (MDA) systems and is working to deploy systems which range from tracking a few boats to many tens of thousands with complex networked shore-based infrastructure. Our products can be extensively customised for specific requirements. They range from high performance AIS transceivers to fully integrated national maritime surveillance systems which integrate extensive networks of sensors such as AIS, Radar, CCTV, and communications with intelligent command & control, display and data analytics. Technology is at the heart of every SRT product, delivering superior performance and functionality. We pride ourselves in a unique in- house research and development team of expert hardware and software engineers. For twenty years we have pioneered the development of leading-edge technologies, which power our products with unique capabilities and performance characteristics. This combination of exceptional core technology and quality product engineering and manufacturing result in a product range renowned for its performance reliability, even in the harshest marine environments. Mission critical reliability is delivered every time an SRT product is employed. This is achieved through the implementation of a rigorous total quality system, starting at the product design and engineering phase. Quality is the number one priority in everything we do, evidenced by our ISO9001 approval and growing global reputation. AIS (Automatic Identification System) is a marine vessel tracking technology combining satellite positioning systems and marine-band

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VHF data communication in order that all AIS equipped vessels may provide their position and course details to all other AIS equipped vessels for the purposes of electronic display and collision avoidance. It is used to augment technologies such as electronic chart display and RADAR. AIS technology is an internationally agreed standard and AIS equipment operation is required for many classes of vessel under both international law and regional jurisdiction and is widely accepted as an essential navigation and safety technology even where not mandatory. SRT develop a number of classes of AIS equipment including AIS Class A and B transceivers, AIS AtoN (Aids to Navigation), AIS-SART (Search and Rescue Transponders) and Coastal AIS stations for AIS marine environment monitoring. SRT is an exciting place to work for ambitious and talented people who want to make a difference and see their ideas become a reality with excellent future career prospects and job security.

Role Overview Every member of the systems development team is responsible for: The availability, security, scalability of our vessel monitoring system Delivering our product roadmap Planning for the future Ensuring that quality is at the heart of our products Working within the development team you will be liasing with the Architecture Team, Test Team, Project Managers and Product Managers to help to define and implement world class operations and engineering practices to deliver stable, scalable, and secure platforms. You will leverage the best tools and solutions to increase the speed of deployment, whilst removing technology as a blocker to growth. You will be developing and delivering technology in line with SRT’s mission and quality system. Operating platforms for government agencies and port authorities comes with high expectations around stability and security. These concepts will always need to be front of mind. You will be continuously tasked with improving all aspects of our software delivery process removing roadblocks and ensuring the development team have the information, environments and tools to deliver high quality software products that meet the customers’ needs and quality expectations. Key Responsibilities Understand the high level design output from technical elaborations and user stories as presented by the Senior Developer Participate and contribute to low level design workshops – discussing the agreed design pattern principles, understanding the principles and adhering to the principles. Assist the Senior Developer to create the low-level design and other associated documents. Provide estimations for broken down development and test tasks Help to scope out testing requirements and plan for current sprint. Develop user stories as described by product management or the architecture team ensuring adherence to agreed acceptance criteria and technical requirements. Use initiative to help other team members with difficult tasks to ensure that the sprint remains on target where your own tasks are complete or on track including assisting testing.

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Manage you branches effectively ensuring that quality expectations are met Attend and contribute to feature show-and-tell sessions. Attend the daily Scrum team stand-up and report progress on your current work raising any blocking issues. Collaborate with team members and assist with tasks where necessary to manage the workload effectively within the teams goals. Perform peer code reviews – to confirm adherence to coding standards. Principles Our principles are at the core of how we meet our responsibilities. Do the right thing Take responsibility Be transparent Continuously improve Take pride What can you expect from us? We’ll believe and trust in you and your abilities. You will have the authority to make decisions you need to meet your responsibilities to the rest of the platform and company. The opportunity to become a senior and authoritative voice within the development department of a successful, and fast-growing company. An environment in which good, evidence-based arguments are always listened to, and will win out. Regular meetings with your Manager, with support and guidance to set and then meet personal career objectives. An open, friendly and fun environment; we have a relaxed dress code. Be part of a team As well as responsibility for your own work, everyone is responsible for the overall health of their team and the people in it. You’ll need to: Generate enthusiasm and a sense of pride within the team for both the features you build and the engineering skills you apply to problems. Mentor less experienced engineers, in both technical skill and practical engineering knowledge.

Skills, Experiences and Qualities

We would expect that, during your career, you would have had exposure to a range of technologies but will have become a specialist in 2D/3D Unity development in C# on Windows platforms. across a number of operational disciplines. You will need a solid technical understanding of these technologies and using this knowledge be able to deal with new challenges and methods of improving. Essential: • Have at least 5 years’ C# development experience with at least 3 years in an Unity environment. • Implementing End-to-end solution from design/architecture • REST API Design, and implementation • Demonstrable ability of improving quality. • Ability to communicate to a wide technical audience. • Be able to adhere to company-wide design principles and

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best practices. • Have good Experience in C#, Unity, Windows development, REST APIs, Web Sockets, 2D and 3D visualization, Git version control, JIRA, BitBucket, Visual Studio. Desirable: • 3 years of Agile experience, preferably Scrum • Experience in software verification and validation including functional, scenario, usability, stress, performance- and automated testing. • Experience integrating sensor feeds into Unity, including video and audio streaming.

Benefits of joining SRT Holiday Allowance – starting at 25 days per annum pro rata our holiday year is Jan – Dec, then increasing to 26, 27 and 28 after completing 3-, 5- and 10-years’ service, plus the 8 Statutory Bank Holidays. The company closes for the week between Christmas and New Year and use 2-3 days from the employee allowance to cover these days. Pension Scheme - new employees qualify for this after 3 months of employment. The employee pension contribution is either 4% or 5% of their salary with SRT matching their contribution up to a maximum of 5%. If the employee wishes to contribute more than 5%, they are able to do so, pending a discussion with payroll. Life Assurance - new employees qualify for 1 x life assurance on joining the company. Following successful completion of a 3-month probation period, they will be entitled to 3 x salary and for Directors and Senior Management 4 x salary. Healthcare - new employees will be eligible to join the WPA Healthcare scheme after 3 months of employment. This is a taxable benefit, and the Company will pay for the employees cover only. Should they wish to extend the cover to other members of their family, this can be arranged, and the contributions deducted monthly from the employee’s salary. Income Protection/Sickness pay - SRT provides sickness pay for 13 weeks at full salary minus any Statutory deductions. After this period, staff will be covered for 75% of their salary minus any Government funded incapacity benefit for a further 2 years under the groups Income Protection Policy