Senior Backend Engineer Gateway

We are Tibber the energy company that wants you to use less energy. Whaaat Thats right. Well get back to that. Yes we are by definition an energy company but were more techy than most. How and why you might ask Well a third of our employees are actually working on developing products and solutions that can help you use energy in a smarter way and at a lower cost all with the help of cool fancy tech. Good for our customers their wallets and the planet.

Our growth rate has been truly amazing and still were just getting started. With millions of smart devices connected to the Tibber platform (like electric vehicles and smart thermostats) we have one of the most unique portfolios trading energy on the market.

Job Mission

In the Product Experience product area we build many of the features that our customers love from signup and onboarding to the Tibber home screen as well as all the charts and analysis powered by consumption and behavioral data.

Were on a quest to find a Senior Backend Engineer for our Product Experience area. You will help us build and maintain parts of our backend serving the apps and our customers with all the data needed in the apps. The role entails close cooperation with other Backend Engineers App Engineers Designers and Data Scientists within our various product areas. Some of your responsibilities (but not limited to) include:

• Building and maintaining the GraphQL layer between the apps and the backend services
• Bringing new ideas to the table
• Championing your vision of what the system architecture should be
• Pushing for experimentation
• Debugging systemwide effects
• Demoing
• Keeping up with technical developments in the field

You are not expected to juggle all the above at the same time but you should ideally be a versatile Engineer who thrives in a scaleup environment.

Ability to build contribute to and maintain relevant services and tools. You would be a key contributor a Senior Backend Engineer cooperating closely with other Gateway Engineers. You would be integrating numerous microservices to ensure seamless data flow to the apps.

Engineering contribution. As part of the Engineering culture here at Tibber we always strive to further develop how we work with everything from tooling to architecture and collaboration. Youre expected to take an active part in that work and those discussions.

Ideally you have

Tech expertise. You thrive designing building and maintaining software in technologies like Javascript Typescript Node.js GraphQL. You are comfortable in an AWS and Kubernetes environment and with owning what you built.

Microservices experience. Knowledgeable with a microservices architecture in high throughout cloud environments.

App appreciation. Experience working with a customerfacing mobile app. We dont expect you to contribute in Kotlin or Swift but an understanding of how mobile apps work will certainly help.

Adaptability. You should enjoy and understand that some things cant be done proactively. Sometimes you will need to be reactive as we like to iterate on customer feedback and quite often ship features early to see how they are received.

Industry expertise. Understanding the energy industry is a bonus.

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

Get Ready For

Innovation. A way to change the landscape of one of the most important industries on the planet.

Growth. A possibility to learn a lot and push the barriers of what you think is possible with the possibility to grow personally and professionally.

Autonomy. An autonomous and humble culture in a scaleup adventure.

Empowerment. Your voice matters we are a place to work where laughter and support amongst diverse and inclusive colleagues are guaranteed.

Flexibility. Whether this is towards health wellness equipment or other allowances important to you we will do our best to accommodate your needs. Many of us are parents and we all value a good worklife balance.

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 words true sense which means we are on a journey of constant change. We do what others say cant 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 products and in the entire ecosystem that is affected by everything we do.

Were very proud of being a missiondriven startup with thousands and thousands of new users every month. Starting out with two passionate founders in 2016 were now 300 people working for Tibber in our offices in Stockholm Frde Berlin Amsterdam Oslo and Helsinki and with that number growing each week were still just getting started. Through 2024 we will continue to grow within our markets and 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 exceptional 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.