Senior Full Stack Engineer

Hypercube Talent
Liverpool
1 year ago
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Who are we are

Heatio is a renewable energy-tech company transforming the way energy is delivered around the world. We are looking for someone to help us build our SaaS data platform to provide a real-time digital twin of every home in the UK. This enables us to create data products and solutions to optimise a home’s energy performance and reduce cost.


What we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our team. Ideally you’ll want to work in an iterative-product and customer focussed environment, and relish the opportunity to work in a startup; helping us shape our team and processes alongside the product.


Role and responsibilities

We are committed to build a friendly, supportive environment where we learn and grow together; if that sounds like the kind of place you’d like to work, then here’s what you’ll be doing.

  • Work in a cross-functional team comprising product owners and designers, data engineers and scientists and platform engineers to implement backend APIs and front end components
  • Take ownership of delivering features from the software design stage to deployment, we make use of things like ADRs and track our delivery in Jira
  • Understand and translate end-user requirements into designs and delivery plans for effective data and analytics solutions
  • Focus on quality and developer experience initiatives from effective code reviews to testing and contribute to the tools that help.
  • Produce high-quality communications, documentation, and presentations of solutions for
  • colleagues and customers.
  • Build with a devops approach, delivering secure, scalable solutions that are easy to observe and maintain.
  • Take an active part in shaping our process, engineering principles and coding standards.
  • Input into and close collaboration with our emerging MLOps and ML Engineering practices.
  • Help to grow both our internal knowledge and skill sets as we scale.


Experience

Our tech stack is based on Node.js, React andTypescript and that’s the only major requirement we have. We have a few other things that’s we're looking for and if you don’t tick all these boxes, we’d still like to hear from you!

  • Proficiency in our tech stack: Node.js, React, Typescript
  • Experience delivering cloud-native solutions, we use AWS services that lower our operational overheads including Lambda
  • Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases, we use Postgres and DynamoDB
  • Worked in a Devops environment using tools such as CI/CD (we use Github actions) and possibly had experience of IaC such as Terraform and observability tools such as the AWS Cloudwatch
  • Any experience working with Energy and/or dealing with data is a bonus
  • If you have any experience of Python that would also be useful as it drives our Data Platform, but it’s not required.


What we offer

  • Salary + Pension
  • Meaningful equity
  • 25 days holiday allowance (plus bank holidays)
  • Hybrid or remote, with some occasional travel to our office in Liverpool for collaborative working.


Heatio is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive employee environment which is as representative as possible of our society. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, nationality, religion or belief, gender, and sexual orientation.

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