Senior Backend VPP Software Engineer - TypeScript (m/f/d)

1KOMMA5° is a CleanTech Unicorn on a mission to electrify and connect everyone to the future electricity market through their AI-based software platform, Heartbeat. The role involves developing scalable backend services that support the integration of energy management solutions with various energy markets.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with product managers, data engineers, and data scientists to understand problems, support discoveries, and create solutions our customers love
• Build and optimize backend services for VPP operations and energy market integrations
• Design and implement APIs and abstraction layers for seamless communication between different components of our energy market integration solutions
• Optimize backend services for scalability and support for a large number of connected users
• Create, implement, evaluate, and deploy software solutions to solve complex problems in a simplified way
• Foster a culture of experiment-driven innovation within the team
• Promote teamwork and successful project execution
• Continuously improve developer satisfaction by avoiding/reducing tech debt, automating processes, and good documentation
• Work across your boundaries and interact in close collaboration with our stakeholders and other teams

Requirements:

• Proven experience in developing scalable backend solutions with TypeScript from several past projects
• Competence in building virtual power plant infrastructure, including the integration into energy markets (day-ahead, intraday, balancing services, etc)
• Hands-on experience working with interfaces in the context of energy services (e.g., smart meters, energy optimization, load balancing)
• Broad knowledge of various architectural patterns and experience implementing them with CI/CD using GitHub Actions and cloud infrastructure (ideally GCP)
• Passion for maintainable, documented, reusable, and testable code
• A finger on the pulse of software engineering trends and industry best practices
• An agile and product-oriented mindset and you consider yourself a team player
• Very strong written and spoken English skills, German is a plus
• Experience with IaC (ideally Terraform)
• Experience Python in the context of Data Engineering or Machine Learning
• Experience with IoT applications for grid balancing and demand response