Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Software, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you take technical ownership for the development of our platform, implementing backend services with Python and developing a React frontend while also scaling our data architecture for large datasets.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You will take on a central technical role at Gridty and work with us to further develop our platform.
- Specifically, this means among other things:
- Technical ownership for core components of our platform and software architecture.
- Further development of our backend services and APIs with Python/FastAPI.
- Further development of our React/TypeScript frontend.
- Development and scaling of our data architecture for large volumes of energy and time series data.
- Further development of our AI-based analysis functions and integration of LLM/agent workflows.
- Integration of new data sources, measurement systems, and external APIs.
- Implementation of technical customer integrations and support for complex troubleshooting.
- Ensuring code quality through testing, reviews, and meaningful engineering standards.
- Further development of our cloud infrastructure, deployments, and CI/CD processes.
- Monitoring, security, and performance optimization of our platform.
- Shaping our technical roadmap and future architecture.
- You will have a lot of creative freedom and responsibility.
- We are a small team - good ideas don't get lost in five levels of approval with us, but can become part of the product directly.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You are eager to work on a product with a real impact on energy consumption and CO₂ emissions.
- You enjoy responsibility, room for maneuver, and the pace of a startup.
- You feel at home in the backend and software architecture, and at the same time, you are not afraid to take a look at the frontend.
- You are familiar with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend technologies such as React.
- You think not only in features but also in scalable architecture, clean code, testing, security, and reliable operation.
- You can make technical decisions independently and communicate them clearly.
- You are fluent in German and English.
Experience
- You bring several years of experience in professional software development.
- You have experience with Python and ideally FastAPI or comparable frameworks.
- You have experience with relational databases and ideally also with larger time series data.
- Nice to have: Experience with cloud infrastructure, data engineering, LLMs/AI agents, energy systems, or IoT/measurement data. However, what matters most is that you are eager to familiarize yourself with these topics.
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What we offer
- Gridty is headquartered in Cologne.
- We work in a hybrid model and meet regularly in person as a team.
- Therefore, it would be ideal if you come from Cologne or the surrounding region or can be on-site regularly.
- At the same time, it is more important to us to find the right person than to sit together in the same office every day.
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About Your Employer
Gridty
Gridty is a Cologne-based startup specializing in energy and artificial intelligence. It assists companies in intelligently analyzing energy data and reducing energy consumption. The platform identifies anomalies and inefficiencies and proposes measures based on these findings. The focus is on applications in commercial, industrial, and multi-site environments.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Power Sector, Economy
Lead Software Engineer
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
