Developer Tooling (remote Sweden/Spain)

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are Power Factors, developer of the world’s leading cloud platform for renewable energy. We are now looking for a Developer, Tooling to complete our dynamic team. As a part of the Tooling and Operations Team, under the Implementation Services (IS) department, your mission is to work on specific tools to be used during the implementation process to help delivering a premium end-to-end integration experience to our customers. IS is responsible for installing new renewable assets, such as wind or solar sites, onto our Platforms. We also take care of the operational environment for the installation process and data ingestion infrastructure.

We are made up of hard-working, fun-loving people who are passionate about making the world better. We are a very international team spread across multiple locations, with a team spirit that is truly hard to beat! We work with agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum.

As a Tooling Developer in the DevOps and Tooling Team you will face a variety of tasks related to the implementation of renewable assets and their data into their platforms. You will need to develop solutions that help the implementation of sites in an automated way, such as customer-specific tooling to configure meta data and data connection details.

Furthermore, we are constantly striving to improve our infrastructure, processes, and data quality of renewable energy assets. You are expected to work in a continuous improvement cycle, participating in internal projects or tasks to improve the team’s day-to-day work and processes.

This position will be placed either in Sweden or in Spain. You will need to be eligible to work in any of the countries mentioned to be considered for this position.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

- Work with our Technical Project Managers (TPM), Subject Matter Experts (SME) and Implementation Engineers (IE) to understand what tooling is needed to optimize implementation of assets.
- Contribute with your feedback and ideas on our processes and way of working, so that we continuously improve as a team.
- Create new tools in the form of simple scripts or more advanced applications that help with the implementation, data connection and / or QA processes. Python, Linux bash, Microsoft Power Shell would likely be the main technologies you will use.
- Modify existing tools to update or upgrade them based on the needs for a specific customer or project.
- When needed, participate in internal projects aiming to achieve a more global and strategic goal within the team, always in the context of automatic ways to improve the implementation and QA processes.
- Team up with other teammates or developers across different teams to achieve common goals.
- Take over and own tools developed by other teams that help IS in automatizing an implementation process. This includes occasional support to the IE when issues on the tools are discovered, maintenance of the tools and follow ups with other developers when necessary.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

We are looking for a team member who is systematic and autonomous - but who also enjoys being a part of a tight-knit team. You feel comfortable working with others when needed, able to share ownership of tasks and communicate effectively with peers. This also means that you are effective at managing multiple tasks of varying complexities and are driven by continuous learning and growth. We would need someone able to take initiatives in design the tools with sustainability, reusability, and growth in mind so that out toolbox grows over time.

Specifically, we are looking for someone with the following toolbox:

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

- Relevant technical education or proven professional experience
- Fully fluent in English – written and spoken
- Experience with Linux and Windows network stack and protocols
- Experience with relational databases. Non-relational databases is a plus.
- Experience with scripting with Python, and basic experience with Linux Bash
- Basic understanding of Cloud services, particularly AWS
- Basic knowledge of how a SaaS works
- Working with common file types, e.g., JSON, XML, Excel, and CSV
- Basic knowledge of REGEX
- Version control systems, particularly git
- Analytical skills with the ability to assess problems and learn new domains.

We see it as an extra plus if you have experience with the following:

- CICD and DevOps experience
- Experience with VBA, Microsoft Power Shell, C#
- Experience in networking, routing, and common network protocols
- Basic knowledge on energy/electrical engineering concepts (e.g. knowing the difference between AC/DC, line-line and line-ground voltages, or real/apparent/reactive power)
- Industry protocols: OPC, Modbus, Ejabberd, IEC104, etc.
- Power BI
- Experience with SCADA systems
- Ability to read networking and electrical diagrams
- Experience and/or interest in renewable energy

Overall, we need fierce but humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan. Join us to fight climate change with code!

We are Power Factors, developer of the world’s leading cloud platform for renewable energy. Our SaaS platforms - Drive, Greenbyte, Unity and Bluepoint - are used to manage over 110+ GW of solar, wind, and energy storage projects across the planet. By driving down operations costs and increasing revenue, we’re tackling one of the world’s most important challenges: making renewable energy the world’s leading source of power.

Our company is going through accelerated growth, fueled by the transition to clean, renewable energy and backed by one of the world’s leading enterprise software private equity funds. Our vision is to create a sustainable world powered by renewable energy.

We are an agile development company – big enough to make an impact, but small enough to move quickly and execute in a growing industry, taking advantage of rapidly evolving technologies. We are a collective of bold and ingenious talents driven by results. Our team is made up of hard-working, fun-loving people who are passionate about making the world a better place. We seek fierce but humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan.

If you are all that and more, join us!