Senior Backend VPP Software Engineer - TypeScript (m/f/d)
1KOMMA5grad2 months ago
Remote, Germany +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize scalable backend services for virtual power plant operations and energy-market integrations.
- Design and implement APIs and abstraction layers connecting energy-market integration components.
- Build, evaluate, and deploy software solutions supporting large numbers of connected users.
- Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, data scientists, stakeholders, and other teams to discover problems and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Improve developer satisfaction through technical-debt reduction, process automation, documentation, and reusable code.
- Promote experiment-driven innovation, teamwork, and successful project execution.
Requirements
- Several past projects developing scalable backend solutions with TypeScript.
- Experience building virtual power plant infrastructure and integrating with day-ahead, intraday, and balancing-services energy markets.
- Hands-on experience with interfaces for energy services such as smart meters, energy optimization, and load balancing.
- Knowledge of architectural patterns and experience implementing them with GitHub Actions and cloud infrastructure, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
- Passion for maintainable, documented, reusable, and testable code.
- Strong written and spoken English skills; German is a plus.
- Preferred experience with Terraform, Python in data engineering or machine learning, and IoT applications for grid balancing and demand response.
Benefits
- Remote work anywhere in Germany, with offices available in Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich.
- International, dynamic, and highly motivated team with opportunities to work with core decision-makers.
- Opportunity to contribute directly to the renewable-energy transition and learn from experienced colleagues.
- EGYM Wellpass benefits.
- Futurebens benefits and discounts.
- Job bike leasing for city bikes or e-bikes.
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About 1KOMMA5grad
1KOMMA5° sells and installs residential and small-business energy systems—solar PV, home batteries, heat pumps, and EV chargers—and provides software to orchestrate them. Its Heartbeat platform connects devices into a virtual power plant to optimize consumption and trade electricity on the power market. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Hamburg, the privately held company operates across multiple European countries with a one‑stop shop installation and service model.