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Lead Software Engineer

Location

Hengelo, Netherlands

Employment type

Full-time

Are you a Lead Software Engineer who wants to accelerate the energy transition? SmartGrid is looking for you.


What we're looking for

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will need to produce and implement functional software solutions. You will work on our innovative energy storage systems. You will work with senior management to define software requirements and take the lead on operational and technical projects. You are the technical conscience of the software. In this role, you should be able to work with minimal supervision. Your goal will be to develop high-quality software that is aligned with customer needs and business goals.


What you're going to do

  • Develop high quality and complex software for our systems

  • actively participating in various software projects

  • contributing to the improvement and renewal of the software architecture

  • guiding and supporting the software engineers technically

  • bringing the team to the next level


Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

  • At least 5 years of experience as a software engineer, also including experience in professional control software development.

  • Fluent with functional, imperative, and object-oriented languages such as C# and PLC programming environments such as Codesys.

  • Experienced working in an agile environment

  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provides estimates and meets production deadlines

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Demonstrated ability to lead a team

  • Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of duties



Conditions

You will work in an innovative and close-knit team. There is attention for (personal) development. In addition, you can contribute to systems that make our world greener and more sustainable.

Besides this you can count on a good package of employment conditions such as:

- a good salary

- the possibility to work partly from home

- career opportunities

- vacation allowance

- vacation days


About SmartGrid

The current condition of the energy grid is one of the limiting factors of the energy transition. SmartGrid is here to solve that. Founded in 2019 by Kees Koolen, founder and former CEO of Booking.com, SmartGrid is a subsidiary of Koolen Industries.


SmartGrid offers energy storage systems for industrial and mobile applications, based on the principles of Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries. Sizes can vary up to several MWh capacity and related power, supplied both as standard container solutions and as customer-specific solutions. All solutions are engineered and built in The Netherlands.


SmartGrid’s design makes it possible to make an autonomous link with clean energy production and existing electricity networks in a simple way, in order to supply energy on AC and DC in the various application areas via (temporary) storage. Through our in-house developed software and thorough system integration set-up, our customers can use the energy systems for, among other things, energy trading, peak shaving, load balancing, DC and AC micro grid, and back-up power.


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