Job Purpose/Mission
We are looking for a talented, self-starting software
engineer to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to
emerging markets. This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an
elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to
the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact.
Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at
scale.
Responsibilities
Contribute to the bi-weekly software planning
sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time
estimates, risks and key practical considerations (such as technical debt,
feasibility at scale ….)
Take requirements and deliver a complete solution
subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and
potential dependencies in the software with minimal to no supervision.
Develop complex software that optimally uses
resources to best meet customer needs.
Participate and contribute to
architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance
and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or
implementation details, assumptions, etc…
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical
guidance
provide support where engineering intervention
is required (e.g due to bugs or performance problems, on-call)
Experience and skills
Required:
At least 3 years of relevant experience
Programming language proficiency in Ruby and
mastery of Rails framework
Good knowledge of object relational mappers (and
their implementation design patterns), No SQL, Mysql and storage options
Strong knowledge of design patterns and OOP
practices, TDD
Strong API development and documentation experience
Experience using observability and monitoring tools
Working knowledge of good practices for computer and
data security
Experience with git: GitHub/Gitlab based source code
management and deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in
English
Desired:
Javascript and typescript proficiency with strong
knowledge of one JS framework
HTML4/5, CSS3, AJAX, Bootstrap along with strong
knowledge of DOM
Strong software engineering and architectural
patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)
Experience creating and maintaining scalable web
applications in cloud context: elastic cache, distributed task processing, load
balancing, containerization, clustering
Good experience on high availability, observability
and structured logging
API design (REST, GraphQL,Apollo…)
Knowledge of container and container orchestration
Web and application Server backend management is a
strong advantage and basic Linux server system administration.
Good knowledge of web application security with
standards such as OWASP
Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its
services, such as, but not limited to, EC2 ,RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering
discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)
Language(s):
English
French is a plus
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