Senior Backend VPP Software Engineer (TypeScript)

TL;DR

Senior Backend VPP Software Engineer (TypeScript): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for a virtual power plant and energy market integrations with an accent on API design, scalability, and robust backend architecture. Focus on integrating energy management solutions with various energy markets, developing scalable services for VPP operations, and continuously improving developer satisfaction.

Location: Remote (Germany-wide), with offices in Berlin, Hamburg, or Munich.

Company

hirify.global is a CleanTech Unicorn building the energy system of the future with Heartbeat AI, focused on transitioning households to renewable energies through an integrated virtual power plant system.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, and data scientists to understand problems and create customer-centric solutions.
• Develop and optimize scalable, robust backend services for Virtual Power Plant (VPP) operations and energy market integrations.
• Design and implement APIs and abstraction layers for seamless communication between different components.
• Create, implement, evaluate, and deploy software solutions to solve complex problems.
• Foster experiment-driven innovation, promote teamwork, and continuously improve developer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Proven experience developing scalable backend solutions with TypeScript from several past projects.
• Competence in building virtual power plant infrastructure, including integration into energy markets.
• Hands-on experience working with interfaces in the context of energy services (e.g., smart meters, load balancing).
• Broad knowledge of various architectural patterns and experience implementing them with CI/CD, ideally using Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Passion for maintainable, documented, reusable, and testable code.
• Very strong written and spoken English skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ideally Terraform).
• Experience with Python in the context of Data Engineering or Machine Learning.
• Experience with IoT applications for grid balancing and demand response.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team.
• Accelerate the "energy transition" and have a direct impact on climate with your work.
• Opportunity to work with and learn from super-smart colleagues.
• Enjoy direct contact with core decision-makers.
• Work remotely (Germany-wide), with offices available in Hamburg, Berlin, or Munich.
• Access to EGYM Wellpass and Futurebens discounts.
• Benefit from job bike leasing options.