Senior Software Engineer (d/m/f) - #2235749

Short Facts

• Location: Munich, Germany
• Employment Type: Full-Time, indefinite term
• Salary Range: € 88.000 - 115.000 per year gross depending on the seniority level
• Office-first work setup
• Language Requirement: C1 Level English
  
  

Your Responsibilities

• Design, craft and maintain our VPP system end-to-end, across dimensions such as data ingestion and processing, energy management system (EMS), optimization logic implementation, fleet control, accounting and settlement
• Work cross-functionally, especially with data scientists to support them in the implementation of our optimization logic, automated trading execution, and battery control
• You will mentor and guide team members and improve their workflows by bringing your best knowledge to the team
• Define and foster engineering best practices and spend time teaching engineers and data scientists on how to design and deliver a well built, maintainable, iterable solution
• You will support your colleagues during their onboarding, daily operations and strategic tasks
• Implementation of our optimization and trading algorithms with focus on immediate go-lives as well as strategic, long-term focussed advancement of our platform
• Maintain and improve our tech stack and development environments and build infrastructure, from how services are developed and tested, to how they are built and integrated, to how they are monitored
  
  

Your Profile

Mandatory Requirements

• 5+ years experience in Software Engineering (Backend and algorithmic) in the cloud
• 2-3 years experience with Python including object-oriented design
• 2+ years experience in onboarding, mentoring and coaching colleagues in junior positions
• Evidence of pragmatic delivery
• Experience working cross-functionally, especially with Product and Data Science teams
• Team player to effectively bring across complex ideas and concepts with an ability to work on solutions individually
• Experience and desire to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Full business proficiency in English
  
  

Skills To Set You Apart

• Familiarity with AWS cloud platform, and services like Lambda, DynamoDb, ApiGW
• Energy industry experience
• Design thinking/sprint experience
  
  

This won’t be the right role for you if…

• You don’t have the habit of defining your own tasks and expect other functions to do them
• You are used to working in clear separate functions
  
  

At Flexa, we are committed to diversity - of backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, wewould love to hear from you.

Your Compensation Package And Benefits

• Virtual Share Options: We offer virtual share options to all our employees
• Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc
• Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership
• Public Transportation Subsidy: Monthly subsidy to your public transport ticket
• Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers
• Work Equipment: Mac Book or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace
• Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites, Halloween, Pride Month, etc.
  
  

A Short Note from Your Future Lead

Sébastien Schikora - Chief Technology Officer

Hi there!

I'm Sebastien Schikora, Serving As The CTO At Flexa Since The Beginning. My Diverse Career Journey Has Provided Me With a Range Of Experiences With a Deep Dive In The Energy Industry And The Functioning Of The Grid Specifically. In The Last Years, I Was

• CTO at KONUX from September 2018 to April 2022, where I played a pivotal role in shaping the company's tech landscape and products.
• Sr. Manager at Tesla from November 2015 to July 2018, leading the development of energy storage systems and mobile apps.
• Vice President of Product Development at Networked Energy Services (NES) Corporation from October 2014 to November 2015, launching a new company and product line in the grid digitalization space.
• At Echelon Corporation, I held various roles over six years, including Director of Product Management and Development in the Grid Modernization Division.
• Before my endeavors in the Energy Industry I was working for Hewlett Packard in the Enterprise Software group for a little over 10 years.
  
  

I'm all about pushing the boundaries of technology and driving progress in our industry. I spent the majority of my career in the Silicon Valley in California and apply a lot of the methods and drive to my workplace here in Munich.

Our team is the basis of our success, and I'm dedicated to fostering a collaborative, innovative and goal driven work environment.

If you're ready to be a part of our international crew and share our vision for groundbreaking tech solutions, I encourage you to explore opportunities within our organization.

Thanks for considering joining us, and I look forward to the possibility of working together to achieve remarkable things.

Best regards,

Sebastien Schikora

Contact Information

Your contact person is Maria Marin (Talent Acquisition Partner).

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email to [email protected]

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

About Us

Flexa, a Joint Venture between Enpal and Entrix, is chartered with delivering a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) delivering exceptional energy cost savings while supporting the transition to a 100% renewable electricity future.

The combination of delivering complete residential energy systems at great cost with savvy market participation in several revenue streams sets us up to deliver real world customer savings while improving customer satisfaction enjoying the advantages of a fully electrified and energy producing home.

Through a deep integration into the installed hardware and a direct connection to the customer interfaces, Flexa’s solution controls the energy assets (such as EV, heat pump, home storage and others) of the entire Enpal energy community with an exceptional level of accuracy, speed, transparency, and thus customer satisfaction. With intelligent real-time dispatching algorithms, Flexa maximizes Enpal customers’ usable flexibility and its returns on energy markets including costs, such as grid fees, asset degradation.