Software Engineer - TypeScript London, England
Job description
The Company
Gentrack provides leading utilities across the world with innovative cleantech solutions. The global pace of change is accelerating, and utilities need to rebuild for a more sustainable future. Working with some of the world’s biggest energy and water companies, as well as innovative challenger brands, we are helping companies reshape what it means to be a utilities business. We are driven by our passion to create positive impact. That is why utilities rely on us to drive innovation, deliver great customer experiences and secure profits. Together, we are renewing utilities.
Our Values and Culture
Colleagues at Gentrack are one big team, working together to drive efficiency in two of the planet’s most precious resources, energy and water. We are passionate people who want to drive change through technology and believe in making a difference. Our values drive decisions and how we interact and communicate with customers, partners, shareholders, and each other. Our core values are:
- Respect for the planet
- Respect for our customers and
- Respect for each other
Gentrackers are a group of smart thinkers and dedicated doers, outside of work we are musicians, travel fanatics, artists, sailors, family folk, environmentalists and sport lovers. We are a diverse team who love our work and the people we work with and who collaborate and inspire each other to deliver creative solutions that make our customers successful.
We are a team that shares knowledge, asks questions, raises the bar, and are expert advisers. At Gentrack we care about doing honest business that is good for not just customers but families, communities, and the planet. Gentrackers continuously look for a better way and drive quality into everything they do.
The role Gentrack have in the world links to its clear purpose: to accelerate the global transformation to cleantech. The world has woken up to the fact that water and energy are precious resources that must be cherished.
This is a truly exciting time to join Gentrack with a clear growth strategy and a world class leadership team working to fulfil Gentrack’s global aspirations by having the most talented people, an inspiring culture, and a people centric business.
The Opportunity
Gentrack are currently hiring a new Tech Lead for the UK.
As a Software Engineer you will be expected to support the development of quality Gentrack products by actively contributing and collaborating with team members and other developers across teams. Operating within best coding practice is essential to this role, as is a team mind-set.
Your success in this role will be reflected by:
- Ability to take on mainstream tasks within the scrum team and to proactively acquire the product and technical knowledge necessary to deliver your contributions.
- Active participation in all aspects of Agile software development. Including:
- Punctual and reliable attendance at all team meetings including daily stand ups.
- Clear communication of what you have done since the last stand up and what you are planning today.
- Clear communication to your team about any obstacles or blockers.
- Regular input/contribution is provided at task planning sessions.
- Task planning activities fit well to the actual work required to complete a story; i.e. individual activity is in line with the task board.
- Active involvement in grooming of the backlog.
- Emphasis on the importance of team play, made evident by interactions with team members and the wider company with positive relationships as a result.
- The successful delivery of software from your team to customers
- Feedback on the quality and quantity of your technical outputs from your team, technical reviewers, Leads and Managers.
The skills and success factors:
- Good breadth of experience as a Full-stack T-shaped Software Engineer developing commercial software using TypeScript/Javascript. (Or, you have solid professional experience developing in other OOP languages, i.e. Java, and you are willing to convert to full-stack TypeScript).
- Solid exposure to with React and Node.
- Good working knowledge of relevant technologies and concepts including Object Orientated Design
- Experience working in cloud-native environments, preferably AWS, Serverless applications and AWS CDK (but not necessarily).
- You enjoy collaborating with others to solve problems and working together to build quality solutions and deliver on time.
- You are passionate for quality and are always looking for an opportunity to own automation of infrastructure, build, tests and operational tasks.
- You have an agile mindset, where you work in sprints to continuously deliver value.
- You have experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
- You enjoy working with a remote team.
- You have a passion for personal growth and learning.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Science, Software Engineering or comparable professional development and commercial experience
Above all else, you have a genuine passion for creating an environment where people can do their best. You have the ability to Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge, and self-starting attitude and enhance and drive our Culture.
Gentrack want to work with the best people, no matter their background or qualifications. So, if you are passionate about learning new things, have great experience, talent, and passion and keen to join the mission, you will fit right in.
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