Backend Engineer - Smart Energy

We're Tibber, a tech company with the mission to empower people to use energy in a smarter way and to lower the energy being used unnecessarily all around the globe. We develop products and solutions that help people reduce, or optimize their electricity consumption. We're already helping over 1 million households and we're aiming for more!

We are now looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Smart Energy area of Tibber, where we build smart integrations and optimizations to all kinds of energy-using devices like cars, wall boxes, thermostats, batteries, and solar inverters. All with the aim to be the smart choice for each device individually as well as holistically, in a home with multiple devices working together. This also enables the grid to be more flexible. In addition to that, we also produce our own hardware, like real-time Pulse meter and the home battery Homevolt.

Job Mission

Tibber works in the area of IoT and we produce some of our own hardware from scratch. Your role will be responsible for working on the backend software for some of our own hardware as well as some of our partner's hardware. One of our most appreciated products in this area is Tibber Pulse which can be used as a complement to the Tibber app. This lets you track your electricity usage in real time and tells you what you can do to lower it, which benefits the environment as well as your wallet.

We also have the Homevolt battery, Homevolt is the complete package: a high-quality consumer battery from Polarium, with all the brains from Tibber s connected software that follows the market electricity prices hour by hour. Together, this makes for an unbeatable product that will revolutionize the energy storage market.

Watch here to learn more about Homevolt:

Some of your areas of responsibilities (but not limited to) will include:

Building and maintaining device integrations. This will be for our own hardware as well as some of our partner hardware too eg. batteries, inverters, heating etc.

Implementing backend logic. This is to be done to our own hardware products, the Pulse and Homevolt.

Optimization of usage. Working on the optimization of energy usage from a device, customer, and grid point of view.

Collaboration and improving ways of working. Contributing to general architecture, best practices, and engineering culture at Tibber.

Ideally you have

Tech expertise. Comfortable designing and maintaining software in technologies like .Net, Python, and Node.js. (These are the technologies you will be working with).

Microservices experience. Knowledgeable with microservices architecture in high throughput cloud environments.

Relevant experience. Experience with IoT or any device integration is a huge plus for this role.

Industry expertise. Understanding of the energy industry is a bonus.

Culturally in sync. Curious and collaborative mindset with a bold yet humble approach to engineering.

Get ready for

• A way to change the landscape of one of the most important industries on the planet
• A possibility to learn a lot and push the barriers of what you think is possible
• An autonomous and humble culture in a scale-up adventure, with the possibility to grow personally and professionally
• A place to work where laughter every day is a guarantee
• A set of colleagues who are as passionate about their areas of expertise as you are
• Health and wellness contributions
• Flexible working hours and environments
• Insurance, parental/career, and pension offerings

*What is able to be offered above varies from location to location.

The Tibber Mindset

Being on a mission to change an industry as we do fundamentally also means being prepared for the unexpected. Tibber is a startup in the true sense of the word which means we are on a journey of constant change. We do what others say can t be done, try and fail together but never lose sight of our users.

We work passionately with sustainability and a circular approach, both with our own products and the entire ecosystem affected by everything we do.

We're very proud of being a mission-driven startup with thousands and thousands of new users every month. Starting out with two passionate founders in 2016, we're now 250+ people working for Tibber in our offices in Stockholm, F rde, Berlin, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Helsinki, and with that very number growing each week, we re still just getting started. We are thrilled to be backed by investors like Balderton Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Founders Fund, Summa, and Schibsted.

At Tibber, we are committed to hiring, developing, and retaining people regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, or gender identity. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.