Backend Engineer / Application Developer

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Backend Engineer / Application Developer

My client is a start-up energy business. . It's focus is the UK industrial energy sector. Planet9 is growing it's engineering team and is looking for an experienced Engineer with a proven track record in a start-up.

The Backend Engineer will be responsible for designing, building and implementing applications, We are cloud hosted, so you'll be hands on with Terraform and AWS. As a team we work closely together in order to deliver our product. As well as hands-on development, you will be working with the Front-End developers, business teams who connect us to our customers, our energy trading team and external vendors. A strong ability to communicate with collaborative teams is therefore required, alongside strong problem solving skills.

My client is focusing on delivering business value by practicing Agile development principles - CI/CD, rapid feedback from customers and analytics, valuing failures for learning opportunities they bring, and transparency in decision making. This is a ground floor opportunity to design and build a brand new application and technologystack.

We have a very flat structure, you and your team all report to the Engineering Manager.

Skill Requirements:

- 5+ years' experience in relevant senior roles

- Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science / Data Analytics / Engineering / Statistics) or relevant experience.

- Deep knowledge of Javascript, NodeJS. (ReactJS a bonus if you want to do some frontend).

- Terraform / AWS

- Experience working with databases (postgres).

- Proven experience developing and operating cloud native applications at scale

- Experience working in a Lean, test driven development environment

- Ability to own operational responsibilities for in house technology and purchased solutions

- Nice to have experience developing applications in a complex regulatory environment