Senior Software Engineer (m / f / d)

Overview

You will have the exciting opportunity of gaining valuable experience in a start-up environment and contribute to reducing 4.4% of global CO₂ emissions.

In your role as a Senior Software Engineer , you will collaborate with the engineering team using agile development practices, supporting our engineers and discussing designs with the team, making sure all the key software quality characteristics are met. You will be a key individual contributor pairing and collaborating in the team, with a strong hands-on coding orientation. You will also provide mentorship to your team mates and aid on technical decision-making.

Podero are looking for a Senior SoftwareEngineer to join our team. The successful candidate will work directly with our engineering department and contribute to the development and success of our customers, their customers—households and businesses—and our software engineering teams. This role offers the opportunity to grow while making a tangible impact on the global push for CO₂ neutrality.

Start Date : We are seeking a candidate who can start in September 2025 (approximately 6 months from now). If you are available within this timeframe, we encourage you to apply

Responsibilities

• Evolving the technical design of the different components of our platform
• Contributing with the team on the implementation of changes and new capabilities
• Mentor the team on the relevant techniques, methods, and tools to achieve the highest standards of quality of our Software solutions

Qualifications & Desired Skills

Desired experience and qualifications you would need to fulfill this role :

Experience with the Django Web Framework and the Celery framework are also desirable.

We care about your ability to deliver great work and to be best-in-class in your specialization. As you will be a senior team member, we expect you to be an expert in many of the domains mentioned above and to have a good generalist understanding of software development, engineering practices, startups, and various stakeholders involved in the operation of a software company. We expect that you are eager to learn and able to find great solutions to challenging problems.

Benefits

About Us

Energy suppliers face many challenges in their B2C business, including low margins, low differentiation of their electricity offers, emerging market players, unprofitable electricity trading, and limited IT resources.

Podero is a software platform for utilities that reduces the energy cost of flexible consumer devices like heat pumps, EVs and chargers, inverters, and home batteries by over 25%. Utilities roll out Podero using our white-label web app or integrating our API into their apps. Podero steers devices based on consumers’ PV production, fluctuating spot electricity prices, and the grid-stabilizing balancing energy markets. Podero enables utilities to trade the aggregate device power on the energy markets, ensuring a win-win situation for both utilities and consumers.

Customers of Podero include E.ON, TotalEnergies, oekostrom, KELAG, and more.

Mission

Our vision is to accelerate towards a world of abundant clean energy. How? By creating the most profitable trading software for electric devices (Distributed Energy Resources).

We are solving one of the most fundamental problems of the electricity grid caused by the rapid consumer adoption of Distributed Energy Resources like heat pumps, EVs, and batteries, and the simultaneous exponential growth of renewable power generation. Renewables like solar and wind cause spikes in production, while Distributed Energy Resources cause spikes in consumption — unfortunately, mostly at opposite times.

We balance supply and demand in electricity markets by utilizing existing consumer devices as energy storage. Each time we shift the electricity use of consumer devices to match supply and demand, our software makes profitable trades, benefiting consumers and utilities. This balances the grid, which means that more consumers can use CO2-friendly Distributed Energy Resources and more renewables can be brought online.

In short, we are giving Podero back to the people!️

Our Culture

Podero is a group of relentless operators and driven domain experts who genuinely care about what they do. We all rally around the mission of decarbonizing electricity and feel proud about building an inspiring product. We value pragmatism, sharp focus, quick iterations, failing fast, and connecting our daily tasks to our mission. We are driven by customer obsession, working closely with customers to uncover what is true in our market, gathering frequent feedback, communicating openly, and building solutions that truly meet their needs. We value bias for action over perfectionism and overplanning and look for passionate individuals who complete their work with urgency and curiosity. We value learning on the job, learning from colleagues, customers, mentors, and competitors. We ensure everyone can collaborate transparently with trust, radical candor, and conscientiousness.

Podero is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe that you should be fit for the role, motivated, and experienced enough, regardless of ethnicity, belief or religion, family structure, sexual orientation or gender identity, or anything else that makes you, you.

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