<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-2449c940-7fff-035b-ff43-2b42ea3cec3e"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hi all,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are seeking a Software Developer for </span><a href="https://energysparks.uk/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Energy Sparks</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, a charity helping young people to reduce their school’s carbon footprint. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">This role needs an experienced full-stack Ruby developer to help support the development of our school-specific energy management tool and education platform. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This is a fully remote position, but we are looking for a developer who is based in the UK.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Salary: up to £57,000.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">About us</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Energy Sparks (<a href="https://energysparks.uk/">https://energysparks.uk/</a>) is an online energy analysis tool and energy education programme specifically designed to help schools reduce their electricity and gas usage through the analysis of smart meter data. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Energy Sparks helps pupils and the wider school community to reduce their school’s carbon emissions, and make a real contribution to addressing the 'climate emergency'. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Energy Sparks started in 2017 and is now working with around 1000 schools across the UK. We are a small team of nine people, primarily based in the Bath area. We are a fully remote team and are able to work flexible hours.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">About the application</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Energy Sparks is a Ruby on Rails web application that uses a Postgres database deployed within a managed infrastructure (Amazon AWS, using ElasticBeanstalk, RDS, Lambda and S3). </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">The front end uses JQuery and customised Bootstrap styles, while the backend integrates with a variety of third-party APIs to access smart </span>meter<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">, weather and other energy data sources. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Our software is fully open source. Further details can be found at:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://github.com/Energy-Sparks/energy-sparks" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/Energy-Sparks/energy-sparks</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We prioritise our work using Trello, using a simple Kanban based workflow. We ensure we allocate time both developing new features and maintenance to help us improve our code, infrastructure and processes.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">More information is available at <a href="https://energysparks.uk/jobs">https://energysparks.uk/jobs</a></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Kind regards,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Quicksand,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Claudia

</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dr Claudia Towner<div>Energy Sparks CEO and Programme Director</div><div><a href="mailto:hello@energysparks.uk" target="_blank">claudia.towner@energysparks.uk</a></div><div>01225 723924</div><div><a href="http://www.energysparks.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.energysparks.uk/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>