Developer, Front End (Remote in Canada)

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Job DescriptionABOUT POWER FACTORS

Power Factors develops software that accelerates the global energy transition by empowering all renewable energy stakeholders to collaborate, automate critical workflows, and make the best decisions. Power Factors fights climate change with code.

Power Factors has incorporated its three flagship solutions Drive, Greenbyte, and BluePoint to build an integrated suite of open and smart apps. These apps are purpose built for asset management, field service optimization, and performance optimization. Leveraging the domain expertise and machine learning-based advanced analytics within these apps, customers can maximize the value of their renewable assets to stay competitive. Power Factors’ renewable energy software platform is one of the most extensive and widely deployed solutions in the market with nearly 200 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage assets managed worldwide.

Learn more at powerfactors.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Front-End Developer to join our development group in building and improving our SaaS platform. As a Front-End Developer you will be part of a team of 4 talented colleagues and work at designing, implementing, testing, monitoring, debugging, refactoring, and optimizing our UI framework and platform to manage Clean Energy assets in the industry.

As a Developer, you will also have an important role to play within your team. You’ll leverage your skills to achieve team objectives, mentor others, strategize to maximize the value delivered, acquire, and share knowledge, bring energy and fun, identify and reflect on team’s issues, contribute to continuous improvement process.

Our platforms collect millions of IoT data points, sanitize them, detects occurring issues, identifies leading indicators to predict future issues, and implement advanced analytic capability on top of this rich high value dataset. In addition to issue detection and analytics, our platform adds the toolsets needs to take analytic insights to action such as case management and work order management.

You will be working remotely, from home in Canada, with an international team (US, Canada, Europe, India, Philippines, Sweden).

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Work with UI/UX designer and Design Team to bridge the gap between graphic design and technical implementation, taking a role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works
• Translate the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of software application.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize for maximum speed and scalability
• Be part of our product development life cycle; code, unit tests, code review, planning, retrospective
• Act as a front-end specialist; stay on top of latest technologies and practices, mentor other developers
• Acquire and maintain an Agile mindset; maximizing value delivery, high focus on code quality for you and your team, contribute to team’s continuous improvement effort, healthily challenge solutions and status quo
• Acquire and keep a good understanding of the renewable industry

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

We believe you enjoy working in a purpose-driven organization and that you thrive in an environment where you need to find creative solutions to challenging problems in a fast-changing context. This also means that you are effective at managing multiple projects of varying complexities, driven by continuous learning and growth. Specifically, we are looking for someone with the following background:

• Degree in Computer Science, software engineering or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience in front-end web development technique such as TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React framework or equivalent (React preferred)
• Good understanding of Agile mindset and Framework (Delivering value, not just code)
• Familiar with Git, Jira and Confluence
• Result oriented with attention to details
• Able to rally to team or organization decisions under adversity
• Curious and proactive about new trends in technology
• A product-minded developer who cares about the "Why" - Why build this feature? How will we measure impact?
• Bilingualism (French) is highly preferred.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Cloud programming and infrastructure as code (AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of C#, SQL, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with Redux
• Experience with Storybook

LIFE @ POWER FACTORS

We are an agile software development company – big enough to make an impact, but small enough to move quickly and execute in a growing industry, taking advantage of rapidly evolving technologies. We are a collective of bold and ingenious talents driven by results. Our team is made up of hard-working, fun-loving people who are passionate about making the world a better place. We seek fierce and humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan.

WHY JOIN US

• A humble cause with a clear purpose –you will help us fight climate change with </code> every day at work. We aim to be environmentally conscious in all aspects of our operations.
• Work with passionate experts and top-talents in your field –we are proud of our highly skilled crowd and the savviness each of us brings to the team.
• Friendly and uplifting atmosphere –we believe kindness and respectfulness is core for our culture. A friendly smile or a helping hand is never far away.
• Flexible hours and workplace –it is the result that counts, not when or where. Our hybrid/remote work setup allows everyone to set themselves up for success and create a more sustainable work-life balance.
• All the benefits you expect (and more) –besides the basic benefits (adopted to local needs and norms), you will enjoy perks such as 8h of paid volunteering per year and participation in our Corporate Bonus Program (to name a few).

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Power Factors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to engaging a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.