Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Friday Energy supplies smart solutions for energy storage and load management. We use data from energy markets, weather predictions, and local energy demand to operate energy storage systems and other energy assets for commercial & industrial applications. By doing this, we help the transition to clean energy. We provide entrepreneurs with solutions to their practical energy problems, helping them save or even earn money while doing so. Therefore, more renewable energy gets on the grid with minimal infrastructure upgrades.

Software plays a key role within Friday Energy, and we are currently expanding the team. As a Senior Software Engineer in the company, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and review high-quality code for our service-oriented backend
• Maintain and continuously improve the software development roadmap, technology, and vision in a fast-growing market
• Continuously communicate with business stakeholders for translating technical tasks into business requirements
• Maintain and improve the infrastructure of our platform for connected assets
• Ensure that existing and new managed energy assets work reliably and add the most value to our customers
• Help us further optimize existing decision algorithms for renewable energy assets

In doing so, you are making a real impact in accelerating the energy transition.

Required skills

We are looking for an experienced software engineer, ideally with previous experience in a company in a scale-up phase.

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development, preferably with Python or Golang
• Experience with the standard CI/CD toolkit, including Docker, pipelines, and monitoring stacks (e.g. Prometheus+Grafana)
• Mentoring and guiding more junior team members
• Good communication skills and the ability to convey technical topics to a non-technical audience (mainly commercial and marketing colleagues)
• Previous experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
• Autonomy, proactivity, and teamwork are extremely important for working in the fast-paced environment of a scale-up company

Nice to have

• Previous professional experience in the renewable energy sector in the Netherlands
• Experience with real-time and highly available systems, including stream processing
• Experience with common IoT and industrial protocols such as Modbus and MQTT
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi

What do we offer

• Hybrid working (2-3 days at the office per week)
• 20 days of paid holiday
• Participation in the company's success via a stock option program
• Competitive salary depending on experience
• Collaboration with Utrecht University for innovation projects
• Informal working environment with freedom and autonomy