Job Description
Software Engineer
Habitat Energy is a fast growing technology company focussed on the trading and algorithmic optimisation of energy storage and renewable assets around the world. Our mission is to deliver outstanding returns to our clients to increase the attractiveness of renewable energy globally and support the transition to a clean energy future. Our rapidly growing team of 90+ people in Austin, TX, Oxford, UK, and Melbourne, Australia brings together exceptionally talented and passionate people in the domains of energy trading, data science, software engineering and renewable energy management.
We have a vacancy for a Mid - Senior Software Engineer to join our Software team based in Melbourne. This role will be helping to build our algorithmic trading platform in Australia and supporting our UK and international developments. We encourage you to apply even if you may not meet every requirement in this posting.
Your responsibilities will include:
Developing and maintaining our applications
- Developing and maintaining platform integrations with the market operator, and external client systems, enabling control and monitoring of renewable assets.
- Collaborating on overall system architecture to ensure it meets the demands of real-time data and high availability requirements.
- Working closely with our traders and data science teams to understand and meet platform needs.
- Participating in rotating on-call support of operations.
Team Collaboration
- We’re looking for someone who is a great fit for our company. We are a small collaborative team that values both creativity and teamwork. While we encourage innovative thinking and new ideas, we believe the best results come from blending individual contributions with a spirit of collaboration.
Key skills and experience:
- 3-5 years of professional experience building and maintaining Python applications.
- Experience with a modern frontend framework such as React or Vue.js.
- Experience building and maintaining services in AWS.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience using a relational database such as PostgreSQL.
- Experience writing automated testing.
- Positive, open, honest and collaborative.
- Keen interest in renewable energy and the energy market.
- Right to work in Australia
‘Nice to have’ skills and experience:
- Experience using IaC via Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
- Experience building APIs with frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask or Django.
- Experience interfacing with SCADA systems via MODBUS or other similar protocols.
- Knowledge of networking (routing, VPNs, IPsec, etc.).
- Experience with building large scale data systems (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Clickhouse, Apache Iceberg, etc.).
- Experience with SQLAlchemy.
Ultimately we are looking for someone who is a great fit for our company so we encourage you to apply even if you may not meet every requirement in this posting. We value diversity and our environment is supportive, challenging and focused on the consistent delivery of high quality, meaningful work.
In return, we’ll give you a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements and a lot of personal development opportunities. We operate a hybrid working model with at least 2 days in our offices in Melbourne.
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