Software Engineer L3 (Rails)

ENGIE Energy Access; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A renewable energy company in Berlin is seeking a full-stack software engineer to enhance their digital solutions for solar power in emerging markets. The ideal candidate will work with a self-organized team, contributing to impactful projects across Africa while ensuring high-quality software delivery. Experience with Rails and JavaScript frameworks is essential for this role, which offers flexibility and a chance to mentor junior engineers.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in full-stack development, particularly with Rails.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript frameworks like VueJS and Angular.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and participate in architectural discussions.

Aufgaben

• Participate in software planning sessions with product managers.
• Own and complete initiatives from start to finish.
• Represent technical team in business conversations with stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

Rails

JavaScript

VueJS

ActiveAdmin

RSpec

Tools

Gitlab

MySQL

MongoDB

Jobbeschreibung

Job Purpose/Mission

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us.

This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond.

Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service – see https://paygee.com.

Our Stack

• Rails 5, Sidekiq, ActiveAdmin, Grape, Devise, RSpec, Thinking Sphinx
• JavaScript VueJS, Angular
• Databases MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis
• Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD
• Deployment: Capistrano
• Fresh Ideas Always welcome!

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations such as technical debt, feasibility at scale etc.
• Own initiative and complete it from start to finish, provide guidance to other engineers and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with no supervision.
• Represent technical team in business conversations and work closely with stakeholders to deliver solutions which fit the needs of the business and provide fairly accurate effort estimates and risk assessment
• Participate in Peer-Review, ensuring high quality software solutions with a minimum of bugs and unforeseen side-effects
• Participate and strongly contribute to architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, technical debt, assumptions, etc.
• Contribute to change of processes, adoption of best industry practices and mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance
• Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems)