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About 7SecondSolar

At 7SecondSolar, we relentlessly pursue absolute Solar energy globally. As the only extraterrestrial energy source available to Earth, we are committed to driving Solar energy adoption, not as an “alternative” energy source but as the de facto source ensuring the sustained health of our planet and the prosperity of its people.

We do this by driving disruptive solutions into the space of large, utility scale, Solar PV development, making it more accessible and cost effective to developers and to do it at an unsurpassed level of accuracy, quality and speed.

About AUTOPV™

AutoPV™ is a computational design solution developed by 7SecondSolar in conjunction with a leading international engineering firm that automates the detail electrical design process for large Solar PV facilities.

AutoPV™ uses advanced algorithms and processes to develop detailed designs of large complex Solar PV installations, delivering outputs such as design reports, schedules and bills of quantity, AutoCAD® drawings and advanced interactive 3D renders of solar plants. 

In seconds.

About the Role:

7SecondSolar has an exciting position for mid-level back-end developer with expertise in React and TypeScript to assist with the development, deployment and maintenance of AUTOPV™, an advanced computational design SaaS solution in the Clean Tech space. The ideal candidate will have experience in developing web applications using React and TypeScript and a solid understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML and CSS.  The successful candidate will become part of a small, growing team responsible for the development of tools aimed to disrupt the way large Solar PV projects are designed and built globally. We will expect of this candidate to play a key part in all development activities including testing, debugging and deploying applications onto our AWS platform. It would be expected of the candidate to gain a comprehensive understanding of both the existing code base as well as the underlying solution domain.

Duties and responsibilities

• Develop high-quality software systems using React and TypeScript
• Collaborate with the AUTOPV™ back-end development team as well as UX/UI teams to design, develop, and implement new features
• Develop and implement APIs and integrate back-end systems with front-end applications
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, adhering to industry best practices and 7SecondSolar’s coding standards and style guides
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and best practices are followed
• Write unit tests and integration tests
• Troubleshoot, debug and provide fixes as part of the software development lifecycle
• Participate in agile development process, sprint planning and estimation
• Continuously learn and keep up-to-date with the latest front-end and back-end technologies, frameworks and best practices

Requirements

Qualifications

• BSc Computer Science or similar

Required Experience

• At least 4 years of software development experience with a strong grasp of React and Typescript fundamentals
• Experience writing unit tests using tools such as jest or vitest
• Experience writing integration tests using tools such as playwright or cypress
• Experience with server-side technologies such as Node.js
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Excellent team collaboration and communication skills
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Proficient in Git and online Git repositories such as GitHub, BitBucket

Nice to Have

• Experience deploying projects to AWS cloud Infrastructure
• Experience with Python micro-service development 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code

Design. Decisions. Delivered.