Developer

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Summary:

Genous is seeking a full-time developer to help us grow our green tech start-up from current MVP through early stage commercialisation and on to market maturity. This offers an ambitious individual with outstanding technology and organisational skills the opportunity to combine shaping technology for a business operating at the forefront of sustainability with a highly competitive package..

We are a tech-enabled, consumer decarbonisation concierge that helps customers take significant steps to reduce their own emissions, with an initial focus on ‘embedded emissions': home energy efficiency measures (installing insulation, changing to renewable heating, installing micro electricity generation etc) and personal transport (electric vehicles and charge point installation). 

Role responsibilities

The key responsibility of the role is to help to build out, refine and maintain our technology platform. This will primarily involve:

Supporting the development of the technology strategy and roll-out plan with the senior team (ultimately with Chief Technology Officer)

Implementing new platform functionality, including

Working with propositions team to develop and assess technical solutions to business problems

Developing, coding and maintaining well-functioning, robust back-end applications (servers, databasesm APIs)

UX/UI skills would be attractive but are not essential

Able to source/co-ordinate and work with external development houses/freelancers to create seamless products

Role requirement:

Computer science degree from leading institution and proven experience as a full-stack or back-end developer or similar

Proficiency in back-end technologies:

Knowledge of JavaScrip frameworks, server-side languages and database and web-server technology (existing MVP in React, Typescript and AWS)

Ability to project manage self and others on agile basis - will need to see through projects from concept to finished (and tested) product

Motivated/self starter with a "can-do" attitude. Organised, efficient, attention-to-detail, proactive and able to work both in teams and solo when needed

Excellent problem-solving skills

Good communicator and confident to speak up

Right to work in the UK

What we offer:

Competitive salary and bonus (dependent on experience). Share options in business negotiable.

Being in a green start-up means working in a small, close team where you can be part of combatting climate change and make a difference

Work from home, flexible working and a supportive working environment