Software Engineer

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

Apply via :

jobs.engie.com