Full Stack Engineer

This software engineer will focus on our Java/Spring back end and our Angular-based front end — and all parts in-between. We are a lean, but fast-growing company – you will have meaningful work and responsibilities, with room to grow with the company. 

Responsibilities:

• Helping streamline and evolve access to reliable, clean energy to those in need around the world, as well other renewable distributed energy infrastructure projects from the comfort of your desk.
• Being a key player in a small but dynamic, diverse, fun and growing organization spanning 10 countries including the USA, Nigeria, Germany, Kenya, and India.
• Full stack development with a focus on Java/Spring backend services and Angular front end
• Involvement in a wide range of technologies including distributed services, cross-service messaging, automated pipelines, timeseries/NoSQL databases, reactive programming, big data analytics, and cluster management of cloud services. 

Expected experience

• At least 3 years experience developing a real world web application using Java/Spring backend services with a desire to build on that Java experience
• Experience developing frontend applications using Angular for a non-trivial application
• History of continually improving professional skills and gaining proficiency in new technologies
• Designing intuitive data structures and writing code using modern best practices and patterns where appropriate
• Working on a distributed system within cloud environments (GCP, AWS)
• Deploying code automatically using source control, automated build pipelines, and automated tests across multiple environments
• Exposure to processing/querying data from both time-series and relational DBs such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, or TimescaleDB
• An agile approach to the development process

Desired experience

• Working with messaging services such as RabbitMQ
• Implementing OAuth/SSO 
• DevOps abilities to deploy and monitor Docker containers using Kubernetes in a cloud environment

Non-technical skills

• Proficient English in a business environment
• Excellent communicator including in a virtual workplace
• Well-organized and punctual
• Team player: Progressing the team’s plan while assisting others across our organization and stepping up when needed
• Highly motivated and able to work independently

Location/schedule requirements

• Location: Remotely within an US (East Coast)/European/African time zone, to overlap with coworkers in the US/Europe/Africa.

• Once adequately trained, provide occasional off-hours assistance to our production support team. This requirement currently rotates every week amongst our developers.