Software Engineer (all genders)

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 a time-of-use optimization algorithm 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 / maintain our Tariff Timer service around state-of-art mathematical optimization techniques together with our energy domain experts.

You drive the adaptation of our distributed services to the ever-changing requirements and scaling needs. This means proposing and reviewing software design changes continuously and making sure that we are set up for what comes next.

You know your way around distributed software system design & best practices and you are always looking for ways to share your experience with the other engineers in our team. Ideally you strive to take responsibility for mentoring junior engineers on a regular basis.

This is how you and your application stand out

• You have 2 years of experience with distributed software systems and web technologies (JSON REST HTTP RPC)
• You have experience with relational databases (we use Postgres)
• You have experience with at least one modern backend language (e.g. Go Python Java; we use Go in most of our services and some in Python)
• You have experience with container technologies (Docker kubernetes)
• Bonus points : You have worked with the cloud service offering (we use AWS)
• Bonus points : You have a record of open-source contributions

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES IN DETAIL :

You own Tariff Timer features end-to-end from conception to implementation to deployment to coordinating requirements / 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 RFCs.

You review pull requests and support other developers in improving code design testing and documentation.

You monitor the risks of tech debt and scaling bottlenecks in our code base and raise issues proactively to our product manager.

You monitor our daily operation and push improvements to our internal processes to help us improve quality of service.

You build software that developers love to maintain and APIs that stakeholders love to use.

Why gridX

About us

We believe in a future where all DERs are connected and optimized to efficiently power the new energy age!

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 its 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!

Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1