Staff Platform Engineer

What We Do

Flower is Flexible Power. We are a next-gen energy company leveraging AI and machine learning to make renewable energy stable and always available even when the sun isnt shining and the wind isnt blowing.

Through smart optimization and trading of energy assets like wind and solar farms battery systems and EV chargers we make renewable energy reliable and predictable leading the charge towards the energy system of tomorrow.

Who We Are

Tech company at heart purpose in our DNA. Flower consists of a diverse group of innovative individuals with a strong desire to improve the state of the world.

At Flower we believe trust collaboration and diversity are essential to not only create an inclusive work environment but also drive career growth. By embracing varying perspectives we allow creativity and progress to flourish.

To accelerate towards our goal of becoming the pioneering force powering the energy system of tomorrow we are now looking for a passionate and skilled Staff Platform Engineer to join our Platform team.

About the role

Flower runs renewable energy assets at the edge of whats technically possible. Our traders make decisions in seconds our IoT devices stream telemetry from sites across Europe and our data and AI systems sit in the middle of it all. The platform that enables these workloads has to be fast reliable and a joy to build on.

Thats where you come in.

As Staff Platform Engineer you will set the technical direction for how Flowers platform evolves with a particular focus on DevOps SRE and developer experience. Youll work alongside the Head of Platform and a team of platform and data engineers and your customers are the product squads building Flowers trading and AI systems. Your job is to make them faster safer and more productive.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. Youll write code design systems mentor engineers and shape practice across the group without formal management responsibility.

What youll do

• Set technical direction across the platform engineering group raising the bar on architecture code quality and operational excellence.

• Drive Flowers DevOps practice and scale it across all product workloads including CI/CD on GitHub Actions deployment patterns and release safety.

• Treat the platform as a product. Understand the pain points of our trading AI and product squads firsthand and prioritise platform investments accordingly.

• Own and evolve ECS & EKS on AWS as a first-class workload platform including service templates autoscaling networking and developer tooling.

• Own and evolve Modal as a core compute substrate for batch jobs agents and trading-adjacent workloads.

• Partner with our Platform Engineers to stand up Flowers SRE practice including on-call incident response SLOs and operational readiness.

• Support observability work on Grafana Cloud alongside the engineers who own that domain today.

• Mentor platform engineers across the group / squads.

Who you are

• You have 8 years of engineering experience with meaningful time spent as a backend or product engineer before moving into platform or DevOps work. You know what a bad platform feels like from the inside and you care about fixing it.

• You have led technical work across a group of engineers whether as a tech lead staff engineer or principal. You set direction without needing a manager title to do it.

• You have strong hands-on experience operating production workloads on AWS particularly ECS or EKS. Youre comfortable with task and service design autoscaling deployment strategies and networking.

• You have practical experience with managed or serverless compute platforms such as Modal Lambda or Cloud Run.

• You have deep DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD design (GitHub Actions or similar) release safety progressive delivery environment strategy secrets handling.

• You have solid SRE fundamentals: on-call design incident response SLOs and error budgets postmortem culture.

• Youre comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform) Linux and networking fundamentals.

• Youre familiar with observability stacks (Grafana Cloud OTel or similar) and can partner credibly with the engineer who owns that domain.

• Youve worked in a scale-up or growth-stage engineering org and youre comfortable with ambiguity fast iteration and small high-trust teams.

• Youre collaborative low-ego and you bring others up around you.

Location

Our beautiful office is located in the heart of Södermalm just a short walk from Slussen subway station. We encourage in-office collaboration but support a hybrid work model.

Apply

Our corporate language is English as we have about 30 nationalities in the office. We therefore appreciate it if you could submit your CV in English.

Throughout the recruitment process you will meet with the Talent Partner the Head of Platform our Product Manager the Team for a live-coding and system design case and the VP of Engineering.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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