Lead software engineer

We are Building Atlas. Our vision is a fully sustainable commercial real estate sector. Our mission is to make this a reality through rapidly scaling building retrofits: the most sustainable building is the one that already exists. With a zerotouch approach requiring nothing but the addresses of buildings we help owners of commercial real estate portfolios: (1) find the best path to retrofitting their buildings; (2) avoid stranding risk and increase the value of their assets; (3) and get access to preferential financing and delivery partners to get the work done.

Our goal is to get as many buildings as possible retrofitted so we recommend retrofit measures that bring the highest return on investment. Choosing the right building to focus on requires understanding its physics (building envelope and the energy systems) its current lease terms and use its current value and future green premium and the value of energy flexibility in a future grid. We gather all this data and build machine learning models to find the optimum retrofits across a portfolio of buildings.

To make this possible were building a diverse team of people passionate about solving climate change in the built environment. Were scattered around Europe and come from a variety of backgrounds and we need your help!

We are looking for an experienced developer to be both handson and to lead our development team. You should have experience in Ruby on Rails and a broad fullstack understanding. You should come to us with opinions on how we can build an efficient scalable architecture for the as we grow. Were deploying in Google Cloud Platform and so experience there is a strong plus. You will have experience managing other software engineers.

Tasks

• Lead our small but growing team of software engineers.
• Work closely with the founders and product managers to understand and fulfil business requirements.
• Design and maintain an architecture roadmap for Building Atlas.
• Design build and maintain efficient reusable and reliable Ruby on Rails code.
• Help maintain code quality organisation and automation.
• Implement automated testing platforms and deployment processes.
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate with other developers to ensure best practices.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in fullstack development with a focus on Ruby on Rails.
• Experience managing other software engineers
• Proficient in frontend technologies such as JavaScript HTML5 and CSS3.
• Demonstrated experience with data ingestion from various sources including APIs and data downloads.
• Familiarity with database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL).
• Experience with cloudbased deployment and management preferably with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong communication skills with fluency in English.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with geographic or urban datasets: addresses building characteristics energy or GIS data.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS development.
• Familiarity with Python or a willingness to learn is a plus.
• Experience working in a fastgrowing startup environment.