Platform Quality Architect

LO3 Energy is a fast-growing company with deep roots in energy, finance and technology. We’re excited about the future of energy production and consumption, and passionate about developing ways to give people and utilities opportunities to shape that future.

LO3 Energy is building a platform to enable decentralized business models and innovative technologies related to energy, cleantech and utility systems. The LO3 team has deep expertise in design, architecture, development, prototyping and testing of cutting-edge distributed energy, computing and peer-to-peer distributed consensus networks. The company builds tools and develops projects to support and accelerate the proliferation of the distributed energy, utilities and computation sharing economy of the future.

We are looking for a Platform Quality Owner to participate in the development of our product. As the Platform Quality Owner you will work with the Product team to understand product requirements and provide those as acceptance criteria to the development team. You will define the acceptance criteria for new platform features and capabilities. You will contribute to code and design reviews to ensure work meets the product quality and acceptance criteria. You will work with the development and cloud teams to build the systems, frameworks, and patterns the development team will use to ensure quality product releases.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• BS degree in an engineering or computer discipline or relevant certification.

• 5+ years software engineering or quality assurance experience.

• Experience with the theoretical and practical purposes of various forms of Software Testing:  Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, Sanity testing, Smoke testing, Interface testing, Regression testing.

• Demonstrated expertise with Continuous Integration and Continuous Test systems and frameworks.

• Demonstrated expertise with Ruby, Python, or Javascript.

• Proficient in Unix/Linux operating systems.

• Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices (e.g. Agile software development, test-driven development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, continuous integration/continuous delivery, etc…).

• Experience with software quality tooling (examples include: Mocha, RSpec, RCov, Test Kitchen, GoTest, Postman, nUnit/jUnit, Jmeter, Cucumber)

• Experience cloud platforms (AWS preferred).

• Experience with containerized environments (Docker preferred).

• Experience testing mobile applications (iOS or Android)

• Ability to work well with a distributed team.

• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.

• History of working in startups or other fast-paced environment.
   

BONUS POINTS

• Familiarity with git and the git rebase workflow.

• Experience with GraphQL.

• Experience contributing meaningfully to one or more Open Source projects.

• Experience working with time-series datasets.

• Familiarity with Blockchain and Smart Contract concepts.

• Knowledge of  DevOps automation tools, such as: CloudFormation, Terraform, Packer, Chef, Ansible, Puppet.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.