Senior Software Engineer (M/F/D)

How you can contribute to gridX

Do stuff that matters - Become a part of gridX and contribute your own part to digitalise the energy industry with us and thus make renewable energies accessible and affordable everywhere #getshitdone

Become part of the Tariff Timer team , which builds a state-of-the-art energy management solution focused on making smart decisions based on dynamic energy tariffs.

This service, which employs time-of-use optimization algorithms, is continually being enhanced and scaled to keep pace with the ever-increasing number of customers using this service.

The Tariff Timer team is looking forward to growing together with you and bringing this feature to many more customers.

• You are excited about energy systems and building an energy management system for the future. Therefore, you build, extend, and maintain our Tariff Timer service around state-of-the-art mathematical optimization techniques, together with our energy domain experts
• You own Tariff Timer features end-to-end from conception to implementation to deployment to coordinating requirements and deployment with internal stakeholders
• You work closely with our energy domain experts to figure out how to translate time-of-use optimization logic into a scalable software service
• You are responsible for developing and reviewing software design documents and RFCs
• You review pull requests and guide other developers on improving code design, testing and documentation
• You monitor the risks of tech debt and scaling bottlenecks in our code base and raise issues proactively with our product manager
• You monitor our daily operations and push improvements to our internal processes to help us improve the quality of service
• You anticipate and proactively address challenges due to changing customer needs and the scaling of the service
• You build software that developers love to maintain and APIs that stakeholders love to use

This is how you and your application stand out

• You have 4+ years of experience with distributed software systems and web technologies (JSON, REST, HTTP, RPC) and experience with relational databases (we use Postgres)
• You are on a senior level in at least one modern backend language (e.g. Go, Python, Java; we primarily use Go and Python) and have experience with container technologies like Docker and / or Kubernetes
• You know your way around distributed software system design and best practices, and you are always looking for ways to share your experience with the other engineers in our team
• You strive to take responsibility for mentoring junior engineers on a regular basis
• Bonus points : You have worked with the cloud service offering of AWS
• Bonus points : You have a record of open-source contributions

Why gridX

• Flexible & mobile working : Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU
• Vacation : 30 days for your relaxation + 0.5 days Special Leave at the end of the year for the 24th and 31st of December each
• Health & Sports : 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass as well as offers for company health management & (Mental) Health Care
• Personal development : cross-functional coaching, access to e-learning platforms & an annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee
• Employee discounts : Access to gridX Corporate Benefits
• Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer
• Receive a fair monthly contribution to your company pension plan
• City travel subsidy : 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly / annual ticket
• Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice
• Relocation Support : We support your relocation to Germany
• Annual Teamweek : Enjoy an unforgettable teamweek, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories!
• Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event
• We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday
• Sabbatical option : take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education
• Our benefits differ for 100% remote employment!

JOIN THE ALL STARS OF ENERGY

Our passionate and interdisciplinary team at our offices in Aachen and Munich is ready to face the digital transformation of various industries : With our interoperable IoT platform we bring connectivity, analytics and intelligent control into decentralized energy systems.

Whether it's maximizing the self-sufficiency of buildings, intelligent charging strategies for EVs, cross-sector optimization of branches and districts, control of virtual power plants or completely new business models - the gridX platform enables our partners to bring their customers one step ahead of the competition and continuously create added value.

Join us disrupting the international energy sector with our cutting edge IoT platform!