Senior Applications Developer

About Us

At Opower, Infrastructure Industries GIU, we build and operate SaaS solutions to transform how people interact with their utility (providers of electricity, gas and/or water) and how utilities interact with their customers. Improving the relationship between Utility and Customer is a key building block of our mission “To provide the best solutions for the world’s energy and water challenges.”  Via SaaS solutions built on Oracle’s next-generation cloud infrastructure (OCI), we focus on speedy delivery of utility-specific services, increase corporate administration efficiency, and turn business data into business intelligence.

Opower Demand-Side Management Group Overview

We are a former start-up (Opower) that was acquired by Oracle in 2016 but kept our start-up energy and atmosphere. We use utility data and behavioral science to help people save energy through a comprehensive product suite across various communication channels and a modern web platform. Our group, the Demand Side Management (DSM) organization, is focused on building products that educate our customers about their energy, water, or other utility usage via our machine-learning driven insights and nudge customers to become more efficient and flexible with their usage. These products have saved over 31 Terawatt-Hours of electricity and avoided 15.2 million metric tons of carbon in our atmosphere! Our products need to continue to scale to serve even more customers and provide increased flexibility with the communications we send. These represent big challenges that will require critical thinking and innovative engineering. We are very mission-driven and are looking for an engineer who shares this mission to join our team!

Job Description

This is a full-stack developer role which will be part of our Prague, Czech Republic team in the Infrastructure Industries GIU. You’ll be part of a small international team, which will give you the opportunity not only to contribute to the code base, but to work with product management and have input into product design. We are looking for candidates who have strong opinions that are weakly held.

Responsibilities

• Own the functional and technical design of new features for the next generation of our energy management products that inform and educate customers about their energy, water, and other utility usage. Also, provide concrete steps to improve their efficiency and save the planet!
• Independently deliver high quality, complex features that provide business value
• Model the behavior of and provide technical guidance to junior engineers on day-to-day tasks, from analyzing requirements to designing, coding, code reviews, testing, and launching features in a continuous delivery environment
• Triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs anywhere in Java Dropwizard services as well as Spring Batch jobs that utilize these services
• Work with operations teams to ensure successful delivery of features, including production support
• Participation in design of complex feature and active participation in code reviews

Experience

Here are the recommended experiences needed to really succeed in this role:

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience with Java
• Expert and deep knowledge of Java as a first-class language.
• You understand the latest trends in Java microservice development and are familiar with established microservice frameworks like Dropwizard, and Spring Boot
• Experience building or maintaining Java based batch applications like Spring Batch
• Some experience with JavaScript is highly appreciated and experience with Mustache Templates, React, Redux libraries as well as frameworks like Express with middleware
• Experience building cloud-native, customer-facing applications that delight and inspire their users on modern cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, or equivalent
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Experience in building backend APIs for end-users delivered in a scalable architecture
• Experience with MySQL, Jenkins, Chef, Nomad, and Kubernetes
• Experience working with large, complex code repositories
• Strong Opinions about good testing and testing strategies, including a good understanding of the concepts of TDD, unit testing, visual regression testing, and UI testing
• Experience with SQL databases and is comfortable running SQL queries
• Experience working in fast-paced Scrum or Kanban (or equivalent) teams 
• MS or BS degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Like to Have

• Familiar with Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies are a plus
• Familiar with GraphQL, including data modeling, schema design caching, and other aspects of a well-designed consumer oriented API are a big plus
• Familiar with Micronaut or Helidon technologies are also a big plus
• Experience owning and breaking down project initiatives
• Contribute to our complex web and digital communication products and their supporting back-end services using JavaScript

Career Level - IC3

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