Software Developer
at Habitat Energy [Closed]

Habitat Energy is a fast growing technology company focussed on the trading and algorithmic optimisation of energy storage and renewable assets around the world. Our mission is to deliver outstanding returns to our clients to increase the attractiveness of renewable energy globally and support the transition to a clean energy future. Our rapidly growing team of 89 people in Austin, TX, Oxford, UK, and Melbourne, Australia brings together exceptionally talented and passionate people in the domains of energy trading, data science, software engineering and renewable energy management.

We are looking for smart, motivated people who share our belief that we can harness advanced technology to create a clean energy future and have fun doing it together - people who are willing to take accountability, build trust and work innovatively to make this happen.

We have a vacancy for an experienced Software Developer to join our team in Austin, Texas.

You will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with internal teams to understand challenges and work towards defining solutions
• Implementing said solutions collaboratively with a view towards minimally complex, reusable, and fault tolerant implementations
• Helping the team build and enhance our platform and infrastructure to better support our customers and users
• Participating in rotating on-call support of operations

‘Must have’ skills and experience:

• 3+ years of experience in a technical role
• 3+ years of Python experience
• Proficiency with Vue.js, API frameworks (FastAPI, Django, etc.), Git, Containerization (docker), SQL (Postgres), Orchestration and IaC (ECS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• A positive, open, and honest approach to technical and interpersonal challenges
• Willingness and ability to collaborate freely with others.

‘Nice to have’ skills and experience

• Experience in an energy, power trading or post-trade environment
• Experience interfacing with SCADA systems via MODBUS, ICCP, DNP3, or OPC UA
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with dependency management via Poetry
• Experience building data pipelines for machine learning
• Experience with SQLAlchemy
• Linting experience with mypy
• Experience with a timeseries oriented datastore

Ultimately we are looking for someone who is a great fit for our company so we encourage you to apply even if you may not meet every requirement in this posting. We value diversity and our environment is supportive, challenging and focused on the consistent delivery of high quality, meaningful work.

In return, we’ll give you a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements and a lot of personal development opportunities. We operate a hybrid working model with at least 2 days in our offices in Austin.

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