Software Engineer

Company Profile: candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions, we’re able to provide a unique offering to this underserved sector. In doing so, we aim to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.

Our approach is to take the risk so our partners don’t have to, providing businesses with flexible, end-to-end solar and battery solutions that are built to last. Our shared value model leverages our experience in customisable finance and performance offerings, quality engineering, and data-enabled asset management to help guarantee optimised systems, lowering the barrier to entry and maximising returns. www.candi.solar

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Software Engineer, who will help candi to lead the revolution of solar. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following for the Indian and South African teams:

• Monitoring AWS costs
• Monitoring AWS services and improving the monitoring infrastructure
• Implementing REST APIs
• Extending and maintaining an existing Web Application and its backend services
• Setting up databases and running schema migrations as data models are updated
• Maintaining and extending CICD pipelines
• Checking requirements and requests make sense
• Creating ETL processes and performing data migrations to clean up historical data
• Assisting with the architecture and design of new software tools
• Assisting with the design of REST APIs
• Assisting with the design of data schemas
• Assisting with the design of data pipelines
• Handle administrative request such as access, roles, profiles, etc
• Suggesting new technologies and ideas of improvement to the rest of the Digitalisation team to ensure candi’s infrastructure is up to date

Location: Johannesburg / Cape Town / Durban, combined with working from home

Hours: Full time.

Job Requirements:

• At least 2 years of Typescript software development

• Experience with Python

• Experience deploying and maintaining production services

• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs

• Experience with data modeling and database schema design

• Experience with Gitlab pipelines and/or Github Actions for CICD

• Experience with the following AWS services (or GC/Azure equivalents):

  • Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudformation, Amplify, IAM policies and roles, S3

• Experience with the following AWS services (or GC/Azure equivalents) is a plus:

  • VPC, EC2, RDS, Step functions

• Experience as an AWS administrator is a plus

• Experience with NextJS and React is a plus

• Knowledge of CRM technologies is a plus

• A problem solver and a critical thinker

• Ability to make decisions amidst uncertainty

• Ability to work independently and remotely while leveraging digital coworking tools

• Detail-oriented

• A creative problem solver

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the candi principle that less is more

• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.

• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.

• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.

• candi is an equal opportunities employer.

candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.

• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.

• We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.