Senior Fullstack Engineer

Podero background

🟪 Podero is a fully funded 12-people seed-stage startup currently growing to ~20 people.

🟪 At Podero you’ll have a great support system around you. Our founders Chris and Moritz are both engineers and understand the intricacies of technical product decisions. Sebastian, our head of engineering has over 20 years of experience and is known for giving non-opinionated advice. Our team of engineers has worked on electricity and advertisement trading, heating system optimization, supply chain predictions, autonomous driving, oil-rig steering, payment software, and much more.

🟪 We started Podero after advising 20 apartment buildings to switch from oil & gas heating to heat pumps. We realized we could significantly reduce consumer energy costs by building software to steer electrical devices according to electricity markets. Since cheap power prices correlate with lower carbon emissions, we also measurably reduce the electricity’s CO2 intensity when saving consumers money. Theoretically, we could reduce 4.4% of all carbon emissions if rolled out on a global scale.

🟪 Podero is based in Vienna, Austria, and serves customers in DACH and Scandinavia.

Summary of the role

We’re looking for a mission-driven, ambitious, and high-performing builder to join us for the ride. We care about your ability to deliver great work and to be best-in-class in your specialism. We don’t expect you to be an expert in every task right away as we work at the intersection of several disciplines. We do, however, expect that you are eager to learn and are able to inspire the team in finding great solutions to challenging problems.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will contribute to the implementation of Software solutions that meet the strategic expectations with excellence. You will work together with the rest of the team to define and implement scalable and evolvable Software designs. All of this, while supporting a culture of learning and innovation with customer obsession and excellent developer experience.

📍 Logistics - Remote or Hybrid in Vienna

💻 Work style - Lots of responsibility, hard work, fast-paced early-stage startup work.

⚡️ Impact - Remove 4.4% of global CO2 emissions.

🎯 Choosing us - You can work at any company you want but choose to work with us because you want to be part of our mission.

💰 Salary - If you match what’s important for Podero, your compensation will be in the range 66-80k€ in addition to a virtual share package and a company-wide success-based bonus

🛫 Career Growth - Your career path will be clearly and collaboratively defined, based on pre-defined and objective parameters

With your 5 or more years of experience building cloud applications, you can contribute with:

🎯 Agile software development

🎯 Cloud application design and architectural patterns

🎯 Fullstack engineering

- Support the enhancement of our device monitoring and steering services to scale for millions of users.

- Support the design, expansion, implementation of an BFF (backend for frontend) API framework for our partners to efficiently interact with our software, consumer, and device data.

- Support the building of capable user interfaces for an easy-to-use, self-explanatory user experience.

- Create a tooling to quickly and easily integrate new device brands into our SW stack.

- Strengthen the reliability of our core services by enhancing error handling, logging, monitoring, and related initiatives.

- Contribute to the development of security measures to safeguard against cyber threats and errors.

- Evolve our CI/CD pipelines, our infrastructure and improve our developers’ experience together with our DevOps team and head of engineering

The air you will breathe

In Podero you will hear, eat, and even breathe those concepts and tools:

• SOLID principles
• Acceptance-Test Driven Development (ATDD)
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Pair Programming
• eXtreme Programming
• Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Google Cloud
• CI/CD and ArgoCD
• GitLab
• A lot of trips to Italy 🍕

Technology:

- You actively learn and adopt the technologies and tools defined by the team

- You are the go-to person for one or more technologies and take the initiative to learn new ones

- You do research, create proofs of concepts, and introduce new technologies to the team

System:

- You successfully push new features and bug fixes to improve and extend the system

- You design and implement medium to large-sized features while reducing the system’s tech debt

Power skill:

- You quickly learn from others and consistently step up when it is required

- You proactively support other team members and help them to be successful

Impact:

- You listen and understand the user needs (user stories)

- You support customer calls and ask for customers' feedback

Initiative:

- You show significant and continuous growth, and contribute to enhancing the company's approaches and processes

Pragmatism:

- You understand how to bring value to the customer

- You challenge the split of product increments

Communication:

- You excel at structuring your thoughts in verbal and written form (English)

Domain knowledge:

- You have a basic understanding of electricity, engineering, physics, and climate science.

• Mission-Driven Work: Help reduce 4.4% of global CO₂ emissions by contributing to the transition towards a more sustainable energy grid and strengthening Europe’s energy independence.
• Young and dynamic environment: Flat hierarchies and a fun workplace—we’re a young team that gets along great!
• Learning / Professional Growth: Join a fast-paced, early-stage startup with significant learning and career advancement opportunities. Access to a strong network, including investors and key stakeholders in the energy and tech industries
• Startup experience: Experience firsthand how top companies create value from 0 to 1 while outpacing their competition and creating real-world value.
• Employee stock options: Benefit from the company's growth next to a competitive salary.
• Success-based compensation: Personal and company-based commission with the opportunity to influence your salary.
• Work Flexibility: Remote or hybrid work options with the ability to work in our Vienna office. We’d love to have you on site in Vienna for the first 8-12 weeks of your employment.
• 25 Days of Annual Leave
• Off-sites and travel budget: Regular Team Events and exciting off-site experiences all across Europe. Travel budgets for customer visits, conferences, and industry events.
• Additional Perks: MacBook, plus any equipment (AirPods, etc.) you might need to get your work done as effectively as possible. Snacks, coffee, and fruit at the office.

About Us

Energy suppliers face many challenges in their B2C business, including low margins, low differentiation of their electricity offers, emerging market players, unprofitable electricity trading, and limited IT resources.

Podero is a software platform for utilities that reduces the energy cost of flexible consumer devices like heat pumps, EVs and chargers, inverters, and home batteries by over 25%. Utilities roll out Podero using our white-label web app or integrating our API into their apps. Podero steers devices based on consumers’ PV production, fluctuating spot electricity prices, and the grid-stabilizing balancing energy markets. Podero enables utilities to trade the aggregate device power on the energy markets, ensuring a win-win situation for both utilities and consumers.

Customers of Podero include E.ON, TotalEnergies, oekostrom, KELAG, and more.

Mission

Our vision is to accelerate towards a world of abundant clean energy 🌍 How? By creating the most profitable trading software for electric devices (Distributed Energy Resources).

We are solving one of the most fundamental problems of the electricity grid caused by the rapid consumer adoption of Distributed Energy Resources like heat pumps, EVs, and batteries, and the simultaneous exponential growth of renewable power generation. Renewables like solar and wind cause spikes in production, while Distributed Energy Resources cause spikes in consumption — unfortunately, mostly at opposite times.

We balance supply and demand in electricity markets by utilizing existing consumer devices as energy storage. Each time we shift the electricity use of consumer devices to match supply and demand, our software makes profitable trades, benefiting consumers and utilities. This balances the grid, which means that more consumers can use CO2-friendly Distributed Energy Resources and more renewables can be brought online.

In short, we are giving Podero back to the people!⚡️

Our Culture

Podero is a group of relentless operators and driven domain experts who genuinely care about what they do. We all rally around the mission of decarbonizing electricity and feel proud about building an inspiring product. We value pragmatism, sharp focus, quick iterations, failing fast, and connecting our daily tasks to our mission. We are driven by customer obsession, working closely with customers to uncover what is true in our market, gathering frequent feedback, communicating openly, and building solutions that truly meet their needs. We value bias for action over perfectionism and overplanning and look for passionate individuals who complete their work with urgency and curiosity. We value learning on the job, learning from colleagues, customers, mentors, and competitors. We ensure everyone can collaborate transparently with trust, radical candor, and conscientiousness.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.