Software Engineer - Node.js

Join our agile distributed team that builds, maintains and optimises experiences used by customers to interact with our client’s multiple energy products and services, thus transforming the way people use energy every day. The vision: making zero-carbon happen!

This role sits within the Consumer technology area and allows you to own and ship new features all of our client's customers love and use daily. You'll be working within the ZCL Home team, joining backend and full stack developers building, maintaining and optimising various integrations that enable our client to provide many of the products he offers.

In this role, you will work within a product team and collaborate with other teams to build reusable components and platform capabilities and have the opportunity to work on a number of experiences touching all of our client's existing product range and new product launches.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing new features by designing and implementing them using the appropriate principles and design patterns
• Maintaining existing code and writing automation tests to ensure a high standard of quality
• Diagnosing and fixing critical bugs and improving performances
• Writing documentation for new and existing features
• Coordinating with other team members and the product team.

Requirements

Our future colleagues should be passionate software engineers and trustworthy professionals, with an attitude of ownership, commitment to deliver, a desire to make an impact, and a collaborative mindset. We are welcoming teammates who enjoy experimenting with back-end technologies and strive to create the best-in-class user experiences.

Seniority: Senior

The following key skills and experience are required:

• Strong experience in software engineering, with a focus on back-end development with Node.js and TypeScript
• Experience with Terraform and AWS
• Familiarity with Test Driven Development is welcomed
• Experience with Kafka would be a plus
• A desire to learn how to build resilient, scalable, and secure systems
• A passion for technical excellence
• Ability to efficiently comprehend new systems and dive into technical issues
• Adaptability and flexibility when dealing with change and ambiguity
• Ability to interpret and communicate information in a clear and concise manner to others (technical/non-technical team members etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Bachelor or higher degree in computer science (or equivalent).

Benefits

• A chance to be a part of a casual but professional environment where you will have a safe place to try, fail and learn
• Have full ownership over your code
• Coaching from our tech leads to advance your soft and technical skills and set your own development path
• Defined and organized the onboarding process for both, the company and the project
• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Private pension and medical insurance for you and your family. Also, maternity and sick leave are 100% paid
• Sport clubs – from fishing to basketball, whatever rocks your boat
• Awesome referral fees - because great people know great people
• Work-life balance – this is the company that really supports your professional, family and personal goals
• Freedom to decide how you want to work - partly or fully remote or from our offices.