Front End Web Developer

Younergy’s mission is to make clean energy simple and affordable. Today we operate 15MW of solar installations across Europe and we are growing rapidly. You will join a friendly, distributed,  diverse team, focused on solving one of the world’s biggest challenges, tackling interesting complex problems and making a real impact every day.

The Role

Our web platform is actively used to sell, configure, install, monitor and report on over 1000+ systems across Europe. Your role will be to evolve and enhance the web UI, enabling the varied growing group of users – consumers, investors, administrators, installation engineers – to set up, monitor and optimize their systems. 

Core responsibilities include:

• Implement and enhance high-quality interactive UI components
• Work with designer and engineers to ensure technical feasibility/performance of designs
• Translate UI/UX wireframes designs into fully functional frontend web code
• Use tools/frameworks to efficiently validate and transfer data to/from backend via APIs
• Testing, bug fixing and deployment  of solutions

Location: Remote or company offices – Lisbon (Portugal) or Lausanne (Switzerland)

Hours: Flexible round core European hours 

Working language: Proficient spoken/written English required

You

Key technical skills:

• Highly proficient in core web technologies stack (HTML5, Javascript, CSS3)
• Significant experience (3yrs+) using React and Bootstrap 3 frameworks
• Strong knowledge of backend connectivity – REST APIs, JSON, sockets

Bonus points for:

• Experience with building / optimizing performant handling of complex data in structured fashion (tables, graphs etc) – profiling tools etc
• Experience with browser automation testing tools (Selenium, Nightwatch.js, etc.)

Personality:

• Background/passion for building complex interactive web-based UIs (examples required)
• Rigorous attention to detail, taking pride in producing pixel perfect, flexible and reusable responsive UI components
• Works productively with a distributed team – developers, designers, product and sales to ensure best quality of experience for users
• Pro-active: fixes minor issues autonomously, proposes solutions to larger ones

We are looking for someone to make a long term commitment to the company, team and product, getting to know the industry and our customer needs, and be rewarded accordingly. A background, interest or passion for tools managing complex technical, financial and business processes would be highly valued.

Why Younergy?

Aside from helping to solve one of the world’s most pressing challenges, you will get:

• Competitive remuneration
• Flexible working conditions and hours
• Learn and shape a complex, real-world product that is actively used and growing
• A friendly international team spanning technicians, engineers, sales, design 

Want to learn more?

Please send link or attach a CV (Word, PDF, web) to hr-tech@younergy.ch, and give us a brief introduction to yourself, explaining why you’d like to work at Younergy.  Include links/screenshots of interfaces you’ve implemented previously where possible.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Server / Database DevOps Admin – InFlux, MySQL, PHP

Younergy’s mission is to make clean energy simple and affordable. Today we operate 15MW of solar installations across Europe and we are growing rapidly. You will join a friendly, distributed,  diverse team, focused on solving one of the world’s biggest challenges, tackling interesting complex problems and making a real impact every day.

The Role 

Our web platform is actively used to sell, configure, install, monitor and report on over 1000+ systems across Europe.  Our cloud infrastructure is used to capture data feeds from over 1000 sites, via a variety of cloud APIs, FTP, and our own proprietary gateway (Https Push, Modbus requests), and processing / presenting this data via a PHP/Laravel platform.

Your key responsibility will be to ensure the robustness, accuracy, stability and security of this infrastructure, supporting its growth and evolution. This will require proactive maintenance, and reactive fixing of issues, including some out of hours support.

Over the longer term, you will be able to shape and implement the selection of infrastructure tools, including expanded use of managed cloud services (AWS etc).  There is also scope to work on PHP / DB coding aspects as time/interest/skills permits.

Location: Remote or company offices – Lisbon (Portugal) / Lausanne (Switzerland)

Hours: Flexible round core European hours, some out of hours for critical support 

Working language: Proficient spoken/written English required

You

Key technical skills:

• Solid experience with managing Docker / Debian based server environments, ideally for low latency fault-tolerant systems
• DB admin experience with InFlux and ideally MySQL DBs
• Experience with configuring and troubleshooting load-balanced shared server environments
• Solid in-depth server admin skills – Linux  tools, scripting, git etc
• Network: configuration and troubleshooting of internal/external IP networks – DNS, tunnelling (IPSEC), firewall (iptables) etc.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with managed cloud services (AWS, GCP)
• Familiarity with structured DevOps processes, CI/CD toolchains, monitoring solutions
• PHP7+, Laravel 5+ knowledge, or interest in learning

Personality:

• Pro-active: fixes minor issues autonomously, validates solutions to larger ones
• Tenacity: able to investigate and resolve issues, follow the evidence to  locate root causes
• Structured: finds long term solutions not just short term sticking plaster
• Works productively with a distributed team – developers, designers, product and sales to ensure high quality, robust, extensible code

We are looking for someone to make a long term commitment to the company, team and product, getting to know the industry and our customer needs, and be rewarded accordingly. A background, interest or passion for building high scale, robust mission-critical cloud systems would be highly valued.

Why Younergy?

Aside from helping to solve one of the world’s most pressing challenges, you will get:

• Competitive remuneration
• Flexible working conditions and hours
• Learn and shape a complex, real-world product that is actively used and growing
• A friendly international team spanning technicians, engineers, sales, design 

Want to learn more?

Please send link or attach a CV (Word, PDF, web) to hr-tech@younergy.ch, and give us a brief introduction to yourself, explaining why you’d like to work at Younergy. Please include links to repos, services or platforms you have been involved in where possible.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Backend PHP / Laravel Developer

Younergy’s mission is to make clean energy simple and affordable. Today we operate 15MW of solar installations across Europe and we are growing rapidly. You will join a friendly, distributed,  diverse team, focused on solving one of the world’s biggest challenges, tackling interesting complex problems and making a real impact every day.

The Role 

Our web platform is actively used to sell, configure, install, monitor and report on over 1000+ systems across Europe. Your main technical responsibility will be working on the backend system built in PHP/ Laravel/Python/MariaDB/InFlux, with scope to be involved in Python and React frontend aspects as well.

Core responsibilities include:

• Developing new backend features, components, APIs and database structures, extend, enhance and fix existing ones
• Ensure the architecture, codebase, and APIs are robust, extensible and performant
• Propose and implement new components and technologies – including those needed for large scale data processing (current DB holds 500m+ data points)

Location: Remote or company offices – Lisbon (Portugal) or Lausanne (Switzerland)

Hours: Flexible round core European hours 

Working language: Proficient spoken/written English required

You

Key technical skills:

• 3+ years coding features on web-based applications with PHP 7+ and Laravel 5+
• Strong data modeling/database skills: SQL, schema and migration definition (MySQL/MariaDB)
• REST APIs, sockets, JSON,

Bonus points for:

• Knowledge of Python 3, InFluxDB
• Experience with TDD / testing frameworks, applying to new and existing code
• Exposure to building realtime/low latency fault-tolerant systems
• Experience with back-end to supply real time interactive data for visualizations (socket handling, caching, filtering, etc)
• Portuguese, Spanish, French or German are all a bonus

Personality:

• Motivated and dedicated, with high attention to detail and quality
• Works effectively with minimal oversight (handholding), in a distributed team, but able to interact effectively with other developers, designers, product and sales
• Pro-active: fixes minor issues autonomously, proposes solutions to larger ones

We are looking for someone to make a long term commitment to the company, team and product, getting to know the industry and our customer needs, and be rewarded accordingly. A background or strong interest in renewable energy / PV / electrical systems would be a major advantage.

Why Younergy?

Aside from helping to solve one of the world’s most pressing challenges, you will get:

• Competitive remuneration
• Flexible working conditions and hours
• Learn and shape a complex, real-world product that is actively used and growing
• A friendly international team spanning technicians, engineers, sales, design 

Want to learn more?

Please send link or attach a CV (Word, PDF, web) to hr-tech@younergy.ch, and give us a brief introduction to yourself, explaining why you’d like to work at Younergy. Please include links to repos, services or platforms you have been involved in where possible.

We look forward to hearing from you!

We don’t have a specific role open at present, but always welcome spontaneous applications. Please send your CV to hr@younergy.ch, and give us a brief introduction to yourself, explaining why you’d like to work at Younergy. 

We look forward to hearing from you!