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 web services in Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy), PostgreSQL, Docker & Kubernetes & Helm.
• Deliver well-tested production components using a pragmatic choice of best practices.
• Drive and own feature implementation for in-time delivery.
• Support Frontend engineers by implementing the right APIs and providing BE insights, with an eye on implementation times, usability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with colleagues from frontend, backend, optimization, and ML.

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

Nice-to-haves

• Contributed to and accompanied to production multiple web applications in different contexts.
• Designed scalable web applications from scratch and/or made existing systems scalable.
• Experience with make or buy decisions on standard componentry, e.g., DBs, IAM, tracing, logging.
• Full-stack development.

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.

• 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.
• Strong Growth & Huge Potential – HYDROGRID has proven Product-Market-Fit in 12 Countries with rapid growth and addresses a largely untapped 25B cARR market
• Team of A-Players – We consider the team to be our most important asset.
• International – We are active in 12 countries on 3 continents. Our team counts 17 nationalities.
• Climate Impact – Hydro power delivers 60% of all renewable energy worldwide and will remain the largest source of grid-scale storage way past 2035. HYDROGRID unleashes this huge potential with the power of digitalisation.
• Backed by Top Investors – 8M USD Series A in November 2023, 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 fulfilling the above-mentioned must-haves & majority nice-to-haves, we envision a yearly (fulltime) salary starting 75.000 EUR.

We are a fast-growing B2B SaaS company dedicated to empowering hydro operators to maximize both their revenue and total (renewable) energy production - making hydro a power for the future and the backbone of the zero carbon economy. Join us in our mission to make hydro a power for the future!