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**Description**\nDo you want to use your skills to fight climate change and positively impact the communities we live in? OhmConnect, the leader in consumer energy services, is seeking a motivated and passionate Senior Software Engineer to apply software development principles to create a world class solution that reimagines how people use energy.\n\n**Role summary**\nAt OhmConnect, we leverage smart home IoT devices to help households automatically save energy when the grid needs it most. We have strong relationships with all major smart home brands and you will collaborate with those external business units as well as our own product, customer support, and wider engineering teams.\n\nOur existing integrations need to handle increased scale, and many of our partners offer newer APIs for real-time data. Your role within the Devices Team will have you design, build and maintain these device integrations.\n\nOur work will allow the business to take full advantage of real-time data from an increasing number and variety of IoT devices. We work with the latest approaches in streaming and serverless IoT technology stacks.\n\n**Who we are**\nOhmConnect was founded to improve the lives of people and the health of the planet by reimagining the way we use energy. We are solving massive inefficiencies in energy markets, changing how people use and view energy, and connecting smart homes with the smart grid. We build products that connect deeply with consumers and invite them to take action to positively impact the planet, their communities, and their wallets.\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.\n\n**What we do**\n\nOur products encompass:\n- Consumer facing applications that use home automation control and user behavior modeling to shape consumer energy consumption.\n- Integrations with a growing set of devices and appliances - smart plugs, thermostats, chargers, water heaters, etc.\n- Smart Meter data ingestion and analysis for consumer consumption forecast.\n- Bidding, monitoring and settlement processes for energy markets.\n\n\n**What you will do**\n- Design, develop, test and deploy new code.\n- Perform peer code review, mentor junior developers.\n- Implement application monitoring tools and proactively monitor application performance.\n- Prioritize and manage development and issue resolution activities.\n- Participate in our agile development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s.\n- Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, Flask, MySQL, Celery, AWS (Kinesis, Lambda, CDK, Fargate, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES), Redis, Git, Jira.\n\n**What you bring**\n- Deep knowledge of Python or similar languages.\n- Passion for integrating with IoT APIs, OAuth and streaming data.\n- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Google Cloud.\n- Solid understanding of database interactions in SQL.\n- Excellent OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives\n- Knowledge of concurrent and parallel execution patterns in Python.\n- Dedication to writing clean, robust code with good unit test coverage.\n- Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices and Agile Software Development.\n- Excellent 1-on-1 and team communication skills.\n- Independent, results-oriented mindset.\n- Enjoy a fun, fast-paced environment.\n- Desire for a career that makes an impact.\n- 5+ years software development experience preferred.\n\n**What you'll get**\n- A competitive salary based on experience.\n- Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.\n- Real and lived work-life balance: Company perks include unlimited vacation (which our C-level team actively encourages everyone to take!), parental leave, and a corporate value of putting families first.\n- Competitive benefits package that includes full suite of wellness benefits and stock options.\n- Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about reversing climate change, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.\n\nEQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER\n\nIndividuals seeking employment at OhmConnect are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.\n\n \n\nPlease mention the word **GRAND** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $120,000 — $200,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nPlantix is the world’s most downloaded app for farmers - combining artificial intelligence and the expertise of leading research institutions around the globe. Millions of customers use Plantix in order to identify diseases and nutrient deficiencies affecting their crops. For the first time in their farming life, they are able to obtain an accurate diagnosis. On top of this, we provide detailed advice on how to avoid crop loss and to minimise pesticide and fertilizer use. With Plantix, we are able to make a meaningful impact in farmers’ lives.\n\nWould you love to join our team of over 50 people in Germany and India? We are looking for a great problem solver, one for our office in Berlin!\n\nThe role\n\nAt Plantix, we solve interesting and challenging problems. You will join a department of software, machine learning and devops engineers, working on the Plantix core backend infrastructure. Our distributed services process, label and store tens of thousands of plant images each day, helping farmers diagnose plant diseases in seconds. \n\nAs a senior software development engineer, you will architect, design, code and deploy clean, testable, tested and scalable microservices as part of our fleet, and work on making existing infrastructure more resilient. You will take an active role in the planning sessions for your team, drive design discussions, write and review design docs, review code, mentor junior engineers and establish good practices.\n\nOur tech stack currently includes AWS, Python, TypeScript, Flask, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Jenkins and Docker, but this is not set in stone. We treat languages and frameworks as tools and we believe strong engineers are able to choose and learn technologies quickly.\n\nYour profile\n\n\n* Strong computer science fundamentals - basic data structures, algorithms, complexity (no formal training required, just great problem-solving skills)\n\n* SOLID software engineering fundamentals - object-oriented or functional design, relational data modeling, API design, clean code and unit-testing\n\n* 6+ years of software engineering experience and mastery of at least one modern programming language - Python, Ruby, Go, Java, Scala, C#, C++ or similar\n\n* Growth mindset towards learning Python and choosing the right language, library or tool for the job\n\n* Mindset towards building robust, tested and maintainable services, clean architecture, technical excellence, observability and scalability\n\n* Strong bias for action. You thrive when you have clear goals, not just tasks. You can lead the way and motivate others to follow and execute on your mission\n\n* You treat everybody with humility, trust and respect and you love making an impact by sharing your knowledge via whiteboard sessions, code reviews, mentoring and talks\n\n* In order to maintain a smooth communication with our teams in India and Germany, it is required that the majority of your working hours fits in the time range 6 am-6 pm Berlin time (UTC+2).\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer:\n\n\n* The opportunity to get hands-on experience building a revolutionary and meaningful product, while having big influence on the direction we take in Engineering and lots of autonomy to do the right thing - and do it well\n\n* Being part of an engineering team where knowledge sharing, mentorship, mastery and professional growth are as important as shipping code\n\n* Working for a growing, VC-backed, mission-driven company that cares about its employees, a great work climate and of course pain reliefs for small farmers\n\n* Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home\n\n* Employee stock-option plan\n\n* Work at a modern, well-equipped office in the center of Berlin with a creative and inspiring environment (incl. fresh fruits, tea & coffee, a kitchen and relaxation area, a shower as well as 3 doggies at your disposal if you ever feel the need for furry company :)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Python, API, Junior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nOverview\n\nAt Sova, we take real pride in our technology, whilst sticking to the Sova values of Making Science Work, Different Together, Restless Spirits, Ever Upwards. We are looking for an Angular Front End Developer to support and deliver the on-going software which makes Sova a great place to work!\n\nFrom problem solving to new concept ideas, you have a genuine opportunity to unleash your full potential and creativity on a variety of software projects.\n\nIf you’re a seasoned developer, with a love for front-end technologies and you want to play a significant role in building functional and efficient front-end applications, we’d like to meet you!\n\nThe role will include:\n\n\n* Participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle.\n\n* Integrating front-end components into applications.\n\n* Helping design and implement functional requirements.\n\n* Manage testing and bug fixes.\n\n* Preparing technical documentation.\n\n* Collaborating with Product Owners and UX/UI designers to implement designs into the code.\n\n* Checking code from other developers and help to coach junior team members.\n\n* Implementing software enhancements and suggest improvements.\n\n* Mentoring junior developers.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s the work like?\n\nThere are a number of different tasks and projects we expect front end developers to be involved with, but here’s an idea of some of the upcoming projects we have on the roadmap:\n\n\n* Major re-platforming programme including implementing a brand new user interface\n\n* Gamification projects\n\n* Machine learning projects\n\n\n\n\n\nWho are we looking for?\n\nThe ideal candidate will have:\n\n\n* Solid hands-on experience with the following languages/frameworks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Angular 6+ (3+ years)\n\n* Experience with a redux store in the Angular context: ngrx, ngxs, akita, etc.\n\n* Advanced RxJS skills\n\n* Sass/CSS\n\n* HTML\n\n* Javascript\n\n* Google Material & Angular Material XP appreciated\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience of implementing responsive web applications\n\n* Optionally any experience in backend development of Python 3\n\n* Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and REST API\n\n* An understanding of databases and SQLM\n\n* Experience on developing and delivering scalable applications\n\n* Strong communication skills to team members and clients\n\n* Ideally have led teams and mentored others\n\n* A BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field (or equivalent experience)\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere will I be working?\n\nWe recognise that work doesn’t just happen in an office, indeed at Sova all of our colleagues work flexibly. In practice this means you have access to office space in central London where we regularly spend time together as a team, but you’ll also be supported to work from home. Whatever you’re doing, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to be effective, connected and part of the team. (Please note that during the current national lockdown, our office is closed and everyone at Sova is working remotely).\n\nPlease note, we are only looking for UK-based applicants. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Angular, Senior, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, Python, Junior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING...\n\nWithin the BOT and our european team located between Paris and Bordeaux, you’ll have to implement new features regarding the business and technical roadmaps of your feature team. “Did you say feature team ??” YEESSSSS WE DID \n\nWe’re actually revamping our organization into feature team (or squad, or product team : we’re still looking for our own terms. As you can see, it’s the very beginning of our story and there is everything to build. Awesome right ? )\n\nLet’s back to you ! Depending to your experience and what you’re looking for, you’ll have the opportunity to join one of this following team :\n\n\n* Offer : You’ll be in charge to handle every subjects related to the products we sell. On back side, you'll manage the entire administration of  the products. On front side, you'll have to deal with the presentation of this products, the way they’re organized, etc.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Payment : You will manage the entire lifecycle of an order. You’ll define and optimize the payment strategy, the conversion, the fraud protection, the purchase options (insurances, delivery mode, etc). If you have already worked with Adyen and/or Stripe, that would be great.\n\n\n\n\n\n* User’s Data : Here you’ll have to handle every informations related to our clients (merchants and customers). On front and back sides, you’ll be in charge of the onboarding and of the client’s lifecycle.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Customer’s Satisfaction : You’ll have to manage everything that happens after a purchase. You’ll be in charge of the interfaces for the customer care and of every tools that allow our clients to speak with us.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Love & Storytelling : It'll be about every subject related to the corporate identity and its content. Especially on front, you’ll manage every subject from the brand team and you’ll guarantee the declination of the Back Market ton in features.\n\n\n\n\nOf course, this organization is not set in stone. As our team features, it is in continuous evolution and improvement.\n\n\nTHIS JOB IS FOR YOU AND YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF…\n\n\n* You’re an accomplished engineer with 4 to 8 years experience in a similar role.\n\n* You ‘re a Python/Django expert, you are self-taught and open-minded\n\n* You’re available right now (or at last in September 2018)\n\n* You’re self-initiated, fast learner with a positive attitude : we don’t want to tell you what to do all the time - hopefully you will tell us what we need to be doing\n\n* You have the capacity to identify priorities and a great business sense\n\n* You have a strong sense of team spirit thriving in a fast paced environment\n\n* You have an excellent attention to detail, quality of work and time management\n\n* You want to join a challenging technical environment : AWS, RestFul API, Python, Django, VueJs, Algolia, NewRelic, Jenkins, Docker, Intégration en continue, Agile, SEO, Celery, SQS, ElasticSearch, Nginx, UWSGI, Unit Test\n\n\n\n\n\nWHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US ?\n\n\n* Daily technical challenges : with us, you will forget what the word boring means !\n\n\n\n\n\n* A band of experts who will offer you their technical know-how and will allow you to build skills in your preferred technologies but not only (Backacademy, technical guilds...) ! \n\n\n\n\n\n* Some junior but passionate developers who are hungry for your knowledge\n\n\n\n\n\n* Career evolution with :\n\n\n\n* The possibility to switch from a team feature to another every 6 months / 1 year\n\n* Differents career perspectives : lead dev, lead tech, engineering manager\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* A job that makes sense : you’ll tell people to buy products that have already lived instead of buying new ones. Which means reducing the production of electronic waste and fight against overproduction. It counts.\n\n\n\n\n\n* A high growth project : 3 years ago, we were 3. now we are more than 90 people and we are lived in 6 different countries. Boom.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Lot of groove : you will have many opportunities to work with talented and cool colleagues\n\n\n\n\nRECRUITMENT PROCESS IN 3 STEPS : \n\n\n* Phone Interview with a member of the team \n\n* One evening of physical interviews with several members of the team\n\n* 2 days after, we give you our answer \n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Senior, Backend, Developer, Digital Nomad, Junior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n