Senior Backend Developer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Passionate about our core values (communication, sustainability, inclusion, impact, and innovation)
- Highly experienced in backend software development, building and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant SaaS products
- Interested in or have experience in building AI-powered features and products, with a strong interest in applying AI to improve developer workflows and platform capabilities
- Excited about the opportunity to join a rapidly expanding team that is developing software that meaningfully improves renewable energy management
- Motivated to work in an environment where everyone is focused on creating value for our customers
- Comfortable focusing among multiple competing priorities and approaching hard questions through a lens of curiosity
- Interested in or have experience building AI-powered features and products, including integrating LLMs, ML models, or intelligent automation into production systems
- Experience building and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant SaaS products
- Strong backend development skills with familiarity across the full stack
- Familiarity with effective agile and software development practices
- 4+ years of software development experience
Nice to have
- Experience with any of: Python, Go, React, MySQL, Airflow, SCADA systems
- Experience working in a startup environment
- Ability to write internal technical documentation
- Experience working closely with product managers
Full description
About Clir Renewables
Clir Renewables is on a mission to reduce humankind’s impact on the planet by accelerating the transition to renewable energy. Our AI improves the economics of wind, solar, and energy storage projects and empowers asset owners, investors, and operators to maximize financial returns and reduce risk.
Clir’s renewable energy intelligence platform combines advanced artificial intelligence built with deep industry expertise and 300 GWs of operational wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets worldwide. By transforming complex operational data into actionable insight, Clir AI helps customers benchmark performance, assess risk, optimize assets, and make better commercial and technical decisions across their portfolios.
Founded in 2017, Clir has been named one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies by the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. Headquartered in Vancouver, with hubs in Glasgow and Calgary, Clir supports customers across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia, enabling multi-million-dollar gains through improved asset performance.
We are guided by our core values of Communication, Sustainability, Inclusion, Impact, and Innovation, and we are passionate, curious, and determined to deliver real climate impact.
About the role:
We are focused on changing the renewable energy industry, and as a Developer, you will have an opportunity to be part of this mission.
We are looking for a candidate who wants to do work that has an impact, not just in the industry but also on the environment. Your ability to ask questions, solve problems, and be an integral part of an open collaborative team will be a catalyst for your success.
You will help guide the product development team in designing, implementing, testing, and deploying features to help scale our intelligence. You will build AI-powered features and tools that improve how our customers engage with the platform. You will mentor and grow the skills of those around you, and lead technical initiatives to improve the stability, performance, and reliability of our analytics
Who You Are
- Passionate about our core values (communication, sustainability, inclusion, impact, and innovation)
- Highly experienced in backend software development, building and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant SaaS products
- Interested in or have experience in building AI-powered features and products, with a strong interest in applying AI to improve developer workflows and platform capabilities
- Excited about the opportunity to join a rapidly expanding team that is developing software that meaningfully improves renewable energy management