Senior Backend Developer / B2B SaaS, Data Platform, Dev & ML Ops

Your mission
We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer (f/m/x) driven by the quality and pragmatism of their work. Eager to work in a fast-paced technology scale-up, share their knowledge and experience with our team, and continue their own development sparring with colleagues. 

Key goals

• Develop web services in Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy), PostgreSQL, Docker & Kubernetes & Helm.
• Deliver well-tested production components using a pragmatic choice of best practices.
• Drive and own feature implementation for in-time delivery.
• Support research engineers with data infrastructure and data pipelines for our latest ML tech.
• Collaborate with colleagues from frontend, backend, optimization, and ML.

Your profile

• At least 6 years’ professional experience delivering scalable and maintainable backend applications.
• Experience with event-based architectures & message brokers (e.g. Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ).
• Solid understanding of software design, incl. data-manipulation and distributed systems.
• Experience with Python, or similar dynamically typed stacks and strong motivation to learn Python.
• Excellent communication in English and the ability to work in an agile, cross-functional environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Having contributed to and accompanied to production multiple systems in different contexts.
• (Big) Data (Platform) engineering experience.
• DevOps/ML-Ops experience (e.g. MLFlow).
• Have collaborated or supporting data / optimization / machine learning engineers.
• Orchestration and ETLs tech (e.g. Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, Argo Workflows, Celery, Luigi, Dask).

Why us?
At HYDROGRID, we transform renewable power plants into ‘smart power plants’ that reliably and intelligently deliver energy on demand to enable grid balancing with purely green energy.

• Exciting Technology – Our SaaS product ‘HYDROGRID Insight’ solves complex optimisation problems and controls hydro power plants around the globe in real-time, similar to autonomous driving for cars. 
• Strong Growth & Huge Potential – HYDROGRID has proven Product-Market-Fit in 12 Countries with rapid growth and addresses a largely untapped 25B cARR market 
• Team of A-Players – We consider the team to be our most important asset.
• International – We are active in 12 countries on 3 continents. Our team counts 17 nationalities.
• Climate Impact – Hydro power delivers 60% of all renewable energy worldwide and will remain the largest source of grid-scale storage way past 2035. HYDROGRID unleashes this huge potential with the power of digitalisation.
• Backed by Top Investors – 8M USD Series A in November 2023, https://hydrogrid.ai/press-series-a/

Learn all about HYDROGRID Insight in 2 minutes here: https://www.hydrogrid.ai/#1 

Salary
We offer market conform salaries with appropriate payment based on individual skills and experience. For this position, for candidates fulfilling the above-mentioned must-haves & majority nice-to-haves, we envision a yearly (fulltime) salary starting 75.000 EUR.