Senior Golang Developer

CO2 emissions in the real estate sector must be reduced quickly. But what is not measured cannot be controlled in a targeted manner:
Our live data on consumption and generation in properties enables the most effective use of electricity, gas, heat and water in everyday life.

We are a young Berlin start-up that supports sustainability and also lives it in our day-to-day business. We are looking for a Senior Golang Developer (m/w/x) in Berlin or Heidelberg at the earliest possible date.

• Drive the expansion of our platform's capabilities through strategic feature development and continuous improvement efforts, with a heavy focus on backend.
• Define and enforce architectural and infrastructural standards, prioritizing robust and modern technologies while avoiding unnecessary tech trends.
• Develop a deep understanding of complex business processes in order to refine and support them working together with multiple stakeholders across all departments.
• Reconcile specifications and strategy with external boundary conditions (e.g. product standards, operational constraints, market regulations).
• Document architecture and design decisions and communicate them with ease in order to educate engineering teams and product managers.
• Ensure that goals and milestones are met while balance long term and short-term priorities and managing technical debt.
• Develop broad knowledge of capabilities and constraints across the german energy market, metiundo specifics as well as integrated external systems.

• You have a university degree in Computer Science, a related field or an equivalent qualification.
• You have 5+ years of professional experience developing software in backend services.
  You have at least 3 years of experience in programming in Golang.
  It is an advantage if this is complemented with one or more typical backend languages, for example Java,Kotlin, Type Script, Rust, etc.
• You are proficient in designing and optimizing relational database schemas, particularly Postgre
  
  SQL.
• You tackle challenges with healthy pragmatism and can distinguish between bike-shedding and the important decisions that have impact in the long run.
• You bring strong project management skills and clear communication, providing constructive feedback to colleagues & decision makers.
• You are comfortable with Linux, working in a terminal and know how to use git.
• Bonus points:
  
  You worked with time-series/IoT-data platforms before and gathered experience in the German energy market.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required, with German skills being desirable.

• A job that lays the foundations for using energy and water sustainably and consciously.
• Permanent position with a fixed salary of between EUR 75 - 85 thousand.
• Flexible trust-based working hours, part-time option, at least two days of mobile working per week, individual training plan and regular feedback meetings.
• Germany ticket or job bike, as well as an office with very good public transport connections.
• A green and dog-friendly office, terrace, free drinks and ice cream.
• Complete technical equipment.
• 30 vacation days/year.
• Company pension scheme.
• Family-friendly approach to reporting short-term illnesses in children.