OUR PLACEMENTS

13 Days left CLOSING DATE: 24/09/2013

Connect-In Ltd

Embedded Software Designer/ Developer

HNC, HND, Undergraduate Degree, Postgraduate Degree

Closing Date:
24/09/2013
Skill:
Engineering manufacturing and production,IT
Region:
Glasgow
Salary
£18,000-£25,000
Length:
12 months
Ref code
CBKMTXPBNX

Placement summary

Connect-In (Glasgow-based, low power wireless solutions Company that developed the SmartTAG) is looking for a motivated tech graduate, passionate about developing technology product solutions and looking for a fast-paced startup experience, to join the development team. You will be part of the exciting SmartTAG project, that won a number of technology awards both within the UK and internationally. You will have lots of learning opportunities and scope to develop strong technical skills. This is a 12 month placement with view to permanent hire

Job description

Connect-In is looking for motivated tech leaders to join the team. We believe in agile software development, short feedback loops, test driven development, and all agile best practices to make sure we can minimize friction and focus on solving the bigger problem.

SmartTAG offer solutions to protect against loss/ theft of valuables such as mobiles and tablets and the data the devices contain. A SmartTAG attached to keys in the form of a keyfob can also help ring and find lost keys and similarly any tagged object. SmartTAG is a simple ‘connect and forget’ device for the end users. The SmartTAG differentiate itself from any other tagging solution currently available under 4 primary categories: 1. Battery life (more than double of competition), 2. Size, 3. Price, 4. Reliability. Parallel to creation of the product we are developing the low power wireless proximity technology platform that has numerous use cases in Access Control, Resource tracking and management in enterprises, etc.

There are some easy-to-use APIs that we use and you can also contribute to its further development. One of the future project goals is to develop a full commercial low power wireless platform including library files, APIs based on our in-house Proximity Stack.

This is the right role for you, if you:

  • want to be part of a team working on cutting edge technology
  • want to have exposure to a broad learning domain instead of being restricted to a narrow area, eg. software testing
  • want to advance your career to a senior Developer role and gain significant industry exposure
  • have the desire to own the product features you develop end to end.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct design and code reviews
  • Resolve bugs and conduct code fixes
  • Audit and ready to ship production ready hardware and software
  • Develop and architect features that run on mobile clients (iOS & Android).

The ideal candidate is a software developer with some preliminary hardware platform knowledge - the rest can be learnt on the job with Connect-In.

Qualifications

A background in Electronics Engineering is preferred with knowledge of Software Development

Skills / Experience

Essential:

  • Quick learner - Able to come up to speed quickly on our existing implementation
  • Intellectually curious and desire to learn new things such as how Wireless Protocols work (previous knowledge not required, but maybe useful)
  • Software design skills
  • Self-motivated and proactive - desire to own product feature concepts end to end
  • Good team-worker – comfortable in a start-up environment.

Ideal:

  • A background in Electronics Engineering is preferred with working knowledge of Software Development
  • Interest in mobile clients such as Android/iOs or other mobile OS development (previous experience not required, but desirable)
  • Some knowledge of C or Objective C
  • Some knowledge of, or exposure to, Object Oriented Programming, programming
  • Some preliminary hardware platform knowledge.

Benefits

Company benefits

The successful candidate will have excellent learning opportunities and be fully supported to take on new skill sets, such as hardware knowledge etc The opportunity to be part of an exciting, fast-growing, start-up.

Placement benefits

As part of the TalentScotland Graduate Placement Programme, the candidate will benefit from support from a team within Scottish Enterprise and may have access to training.

Additional information

Glasgow

02/10/2013

14/10/2013

Company information

Connect-In is a Glasgow-based, low power wireless solutions Company. Developers of the SmartTAG, which offer solutions to protect against loss/ theft of valuables such as mobiles and tablets and the data the devices contain. We are a fast-growing start up who believe in agile software development, short feedback loops, test driven development, and all agile best practices to make sure we can minimize friction and focus on solving the bigger problem.

Enabling Technology ICT

http://www.smart-tag.me/

This placement may result in a permanent employment afterwards