Software Engineer

Location: Leeds

Hours: Full-time

An enormous need exists to dramatically reduce energy use and carbon-emissions globally. The ambitious targets set by governments across the world mean that businesses, large and small, need to act and deploy strategies and technology to optimise their processes, assets, and buildings.

About Hark

Hark is an award-winning Energy Analytics and Industrial IoT company based in Leeds. Known for the innovative technology in our subscription cloud platform, were on a mission to improve efficiency, maximise yield and reduce waste.

The Hark Platform is helping alert Energy Managers and Asset Operators, through machine learning and advanced statistics, to abnormalities across their estate, informing actions such as preventative maintenance, regulatory compliance, asset control and energy management.

With the ability to connect to existing assets such as Building Management Systems, Energy Systems, Process Automation Controllers (used to power factories and industrial systems) the Hark Platform is enabling intelligent solutions across large estates connectivity, visibility, and intelligence.

Hark have deployed successful solutions within the Life Sciences sector for cold chain monitoring, a nationwide rollout of real-time energy monitoring capability for UK Supermarkets across 600+ locations, as well as licensed the technology to Fortune 500 companies in the industrial space.

Hark are controlling assets such as Lights, HVAC systems and Energy Storage assets for a varied set of purposes which creates future business opportunities, as these solutions use the same technology and same underlying core platform.

We are working with 2 of the top 4 supermarkets and have solutions deployed across retail, life sciences and manufacturing. The Hark Platform is helping alert Energy Managers and Asset Operators to abnormalities across their estate, informing actions such as preventative maintenance, regulatory compliance, asset control and energy management.

We are a thriving company run by a passionate team, striving to be thought and industry leaders. The team is focussed on delivering maximum impact in a supportive, fast paced environment, driving innovation and best practice in everything we do by following our core values:

Good by default
Open to new ideas
Always improving

About the Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Software Engineer to become a key part of our engineering teams at Hark. Someone who is passionate about building cutting edge, scalable, resilient software, and is keen to stay up to date with industry news and trends. Supported by the team, you will be able to hit the ground running, writing tested, shippable code to a high standard and maintain existing systems.

As a Software Engineer at Hark you will work with our engineers and product owners to technically plan, organise and deliver features for the Hark Platform. Using your skills you will build cloud and edge software that is stable and resilient to help customers achieve their goals.

You will build scalable cloud software that handles hundreds of thousands of metrics every minute with pipelines to store, analyse and act on incoming data from real customer assets deployed in the field.

As a member of the team, you will have:

Flexible working hours with the ability to work remotely
The ability to take ownership, drive change, and grow our culture and company
Quarterly social activities and team building exercises such as escape rooms and paintballing
Choose whether you would like to work on a MacBook or Windows machine

Our Technology Stack:

Microsoft Azure from CosmosDB, EventHubs to IoT Edge and Apache Spark
Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform to operationalise our technology
TypeScript, Node.JS
C# - .NET Core
Golang
Python and R with Jupyter and Azure DataBricks
Postgres (and Timescale), Redis, document and column-based storage engines
RabbitMQ and Kafka-style commit logs
Dapr
React, Redux, React-Router, Styled-Components, Express
GraphQL, MQTT

How you will succeed:

Regular one-to-one progress reviews with your line manager
Delivery of projects and tasks that meet the business or task requirements
Projects are delivered on time with consistent communication
Documents, code and other files when produced are consistent, high quality and at the standard the team expect
Working with other members of the team to ship solutions together
Sharing the knowledge with other members of your team to support customers and deployments
Customers providing positive feedback about Hark and service delivery satisfaction is considered excellent

How we work:

Azure DevOps for Git repositories, backlogs and Kanban boards, build and release management
- Backlog planning sessions with product owners and engineers
- Code reviews on all Pull Requests
Automated pipelines for builds and releases with automated tests
Daily stand-ups and regular retrospectives
Lunch-and-learn sessions, hack-days and business catchups to share knowledge
Environments for continuous integration, testing and production

Requirements

Experience in development within the .NET ecosystem or languages such as Java, Node, Go
Demonstratable experience designing and building systems within a team
Experience with Cloud Platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS
Understanding of Git and branching methodologies in an agile fashion
Experience with modern database technologies such as Postgres, Mongo or Cassandra (either relational or non-relational)
Experience working in an agile team with a Continuous Delivery culture
An aptitude and openness to learning new skills and technologies
Knowledge on what goes into making a good API around areas including permanence, security and scalability
Experience with, and a willingness to extend your skills in unit testing