Senior Backend Developer with Focus on Optimization for Renewable Energy

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer (f/m/x) driven by the quality and pragmatism of their work. Eager to work in a fast-paced technology scale-up, share their knowledge and experience with our team, and continue their own development sparring with colleagues. 

Key goals

• Develop dockerized web services in Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy), PostgreSQL, Kubernetes & Helm.
• Support research engineers with data infrastructure and data pipelines for our latest ML tech.
• Collaborate with colleagues from frontend, backend, optimization and ML.
• Drive and own feature implementation for in-time delivery.
• Deliver well-tested production components using a pragmatic choice of best practices.

• At least 6 years’ professional experience delivering scalable and maintainable backend applications.
• Experience with event-based architectures & message brokers (e.g. Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with Python, or similar dynamically typed stacks and strong motivation to learn Python.
• Solid understanding of software design for data-manipulation and distributed systems.
• Excellent communication in English and the ability to work in an agile, cross-functional environment.

Differentiators/nice-to-haves:

• (Big) Data (Platform) engineering experience.
• DevOps/ML-Ops experience (e.g. MLFlow).
• Previous experience collaborating and supporting data / optimization / machine learning engineers.
• Orchestration and ETLs tech (e.g. Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, Argo Workflows, Celery, Luigi, Dask).

At HYDROGRID, we transform renewable power plants into ‘smart power plants’ that reliably and intelligently deliver energy on demand to enable grid balancing with purely green energy.

• Climate Impact – Hydro power delivers 60% of all renewable energy worldwide and will remain by more than 10x the largest source of grid-scale storage way past 2035. HYDROGRID unleashes this huge potential with the power of digitalisation.
• Exciting Technology – Our SaaS product ‘HYDROGRID Insight’ solves complex optimisation problems and controls hydro power plants around the globe in real-time, similar to autonomous driving for cars. What could possibly be more cool than that? 
• International – We are currently active in 12 countries on 3 continents with ambitions to expand further. Our team counts 17 nationalities.
• Team of A-Players – We consider the #HYDROGREAT team to be our most important asset and it shows in the positivity, spirit and excellence of every single team member.
• Strong Growth & Huge Potential – HYDROGRID has proven Product-Market-Fit in 12 Countries with rapid growth and addresses a largely untapped 25B cARR market 
• Backed by Top Investors – HYDROGRID closed its 8M USD Series A in November 2023 backed by top investors who are eager to support our further growth. More: https://hydrogrid.ai/press-series-a/

Learn all about HYDROGRID Insight in 2 minutes here: https://www.hydrogrid.ai/#1 

Salary
We offer market conform salaries with appropriate payment based on individual skills and experience. For this position, for candidates with 8+ years’ experience and fulfilling the above-mentioned must-haves & majority nice-to-haves, we envision a yearly (fulltime) salary ranging 75,000 to 85,000 EUR.