ZOLA Electric was founded in 2012 with a mission to make clean, reliable, affordable energy available to all. More than one billion people worldwide have no access to electricity - a number larger than when Edison powered his first light bulb. Another billion people cannot rely on their electrical supply, with voltage spikes and long power outages disrupting their businesses and lives.
ZOLA builds beautiful, reliable solar and storage power systems specifically designed to work where there is no access to grid electricity and with unreliable grids. These systems enable our customers to generate, store and manage their own 24-hour power supply, letting them become independent of unreliable power grids and dirty backup generators. ZOLA’s systems are modular and scalable, allowing customers to solve any power problem, anywhere.
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The Junior Platform Developer will be part of the team responsible for building and designing Surge, a suite of Ruby applications that underlie Zola’s Web, mobile, tablet and SMS user interfaces and ensure effective deployment to the cloud in a Docker-based continuous deployment cycle.
The Junior Platform Engineer collaborates with Data practice to incorporate its data into the business logic and user interfaces.
Responsibilities
Build the system by writing the code for application programming interfaces and develop the infrastructure system robust enough to handle stability issues
Liaise with Project Managers and stakeholders to define business rules and features / priorities in terms of updating software and the impact on the business
Monitor the system to ensure issues are detected quickly and resolved timeously
Monitor connection to 3rd party integrations (e.g. NetSuite and payment providers), identify and resolve connection failures
Change user interfaces and develop features for specific roles to improve metrics for the business (i.e. modify user interface) and change systems to reduce costs
Liaise with hardware team to provide technical support on features and build software to ensure firmware talks to the services directly
Monitor data usage and hardware specific APIs performance and stability
Drive features back for service and sales by analysing the data and work with Project Managers and stakeholders to turn data in value
Build a new service to evolve OGE APIs from single system to multi-API systems
Identify technological simplifications to support cost reductions and friction of 3rd party integration through documentation availability that is dynamic
Develop algorithms that directly contribute to the value of the company
Mentor and coach junior developers in writing codes for application programme interfaces
Check code quality for junior developers
Carry out code reviews of fellow developers before coming into the system
Participate in Pair Programming during onboarding to assist new developers in writing of codes
Participate in internal knowledge sharing forums to share knowledge and expertise with the team
Requirements
B.Sc / M.Sc in Computer Science, IT Systems or related field
Experience with Test Driven Development
Experience in Background Jobs and cacheing
5+years with web backends
2+ years’ experience in Ruby platform development
7+ years’ experience with web backends
Experience with TDD, Microservices and Performance Optimizations
Experience in production debugging
Experience with DevOps, AWS, DI systems, and / or Domain Knowledge.
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