Staff Software Engineer (d/m/f)

Flexa • Munich

Flexa

Flexa, a Joint Venture between Enpal and Entrix, is chartered with establishing a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) that delivers exceptional energy cost savings while supporting the transition to a 100% renewable electricity future. Through a deep integration into the installed hardware and a direct connection to the customer interfaces, Flexa’s solution controls the energy assets (such as EV, heat pump, home storage and others) of the entire Enpal energy community with an exceptional level of accuracy, speed, transparency, and thus customer satisfaction. With intelligent real-time dispatching algorithms, Flexa maximizes Enpal customers’ usable flexibility and its returns on energy markets including costs, such as grid fees, asset degradation.

Full-time

Munich

from today

Your duties

Drive Strategic Initiatives:
Oversee critical technical initiatives and develop a technical roadmap from prototyping to production, in close collaboration with senior leadership, to build Europe’s largest Virtual Power Plant. Key areas include data ingestion and processing, energy management systems (EMS), optimization logic, fleet control, accounting, and settlement.
Research and Innovate:
Identify emerging technological trends, build proofs of concept, and drive their transition into scalable production systems that create tangible business value.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally:
Partner across all teams to deeply understand customer and stakeholder needs, stay ahead of industry developments, and ensure we are building the right solutions for today and the future.
Be Hands-on:
Guide the team in evolving our cloud-based technology platform. Design and deliver high-quality, scalable software architectures, and contribute across service development, testing, integration, and monitoring.
Advance System Capabilities:
Continuously enhance our algorithmic and trading systems for both immediate go-lives and long-term strategic evolution, optimizing for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Mentor and Enable:
Act as a mentor and technical leader, helping team members enhance their workflows and continuously raise their engineering craftsmanship.
Champion Engineering Excellence:
Be a role model in software engineering best practices, fostering a culture of maintainable, iterative, and high-quality delivery across engineers and data scientists.

Your profile

Mandatory requirements

6+ years experience in Software Engineering (Backend and algorithmic) in the cloud
2-3 years experience with Python including object-oriented design
3+ years experience in onboarding, mentoring and coaching colleagues
Proactivity in understanding industry trends and business complementary to technical experience.
Proven track record of pragmatic delivery and strategic project execution.
Experience working cross-functionally, especially with Product and Data Science teams.
Team player with the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas and concepts, as well as
work independently on solutions.
Experience and enthusiasm for working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Strategic and analytical thinking.
Full business proficiency in English

Skills to Set You Apart

Familiarity with AWS cloud platform, and services like Lambda, DynamoDb, ApiGW
Energy industry experience

This won’t be the right role for you if…

You don’t have the habit of defining your own tasks and expect other functions to do them
You are used to working in clear separate functions

At Flexa, we are committed to diversity - of backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we would love to hear from you.

Our offer

Virtual Share Options: We offer virtual share options to all our employees
Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc
Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership
Public Transportation Subsidy: Monthly subsidy to your public transport ticket
Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers
Work Equipment: Mac Book or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace
Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites, Halloween, Pride Month, etc.

Testimonials

Empowerment and collaboration are necessary to create an impactful digital product. Having people from diverse backgrounds best enables us to build vibrant teams that tackle our complex engineering challenges. Different nationalities, genders, and lived experiences, highlight distinctive solutions and allow for holistic problem-solving approaches.

Having joined Enpal's tech team almost a year ago, I felt warmly welcomed from the beginning. It's an inspiring environment where everyone can pick tasks they enjoy. I appreciate the freedom to voice disagreements and have constructive discussions to find the best solutions collaboratively. We encourage suggesting and driving solutions - not just creating new features but also maintaining software and managing tech debt.