Software Engineer at ENGIE

Job Purpose/Mission

• We are looking for a talented, self-starting software engineer to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets.
• This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact.
• Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the bi-weekly software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations (such as technical debt, feasibility at scale ….)
• Take requirements and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with minimal to no supervision.
• Develop complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs.
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, assumptions, etc…
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance
• provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g due to bugs or performance problems, on-call)

Experience And Skills
Required:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience
• Programming language proficiency in Ruby and mastery of Rails framework
• Good knowledge of object relational mappers (and their implementation design patterns), No SQL, Mysql and storage options
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and OOP practices, TDD
• Strong API development and documentation experience
• Experience using observability and monitoring tools
• Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
• Experience with git: GitHub/Gitlab based source code management and deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Desired:

• Javascript and typescript proficiency with strong knowledge of one JS framework
• HTML4/5, CSS3, AJAX, Bootstrap along with strong knowledge of DOM
• Strong software engineering and architectural patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)
• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in cloud context: elastic cache, distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, clustering
• Good experience on high availability, observability and structured logging
• API design (REST, GraphQL,Apollo…)
• Knowledge of container and container orchestration
• Web and application Server backend management is a strong advantage and basic Linux server system administration.
• Good knowledge of web application security with standards such as OWASP
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2 ,RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions

Qualifications :

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)