Backend Developer

About the company:
Wattsight is a leading provider of data and consulting services to the European energy market. We provide customers with the insight they need to better understand the European power market by forecasting fundamentals and prices for the short-, medium- and long-term horizon. Our customers rely on our vast knowledge base, second opinions from analysts as well as cost-efficient decision support for investments in power and energy assets. We serve a large number of clients, including several of Europe's major power and energy companies and financial institutions which value the unique competence of analysts, modelling skills and market intelligence based on two decades of experience. We are located in Arendal and Oslo (Norway), Berlin (Germany) and Vienna (Austria).

About the job:
Do you want to build the next generation power market analytics on Google Cloud?
To strengthen Wattsight's development team in Oslo or Arendal, we are searching for a Senior Backend developer.

Qualifications:
As part of our team, your main focus will be:
- Develop systems in the cloud for processing and storing vast amounts of data.
- Close interaction with our quantitative analysis team that builds analytical- and machine learning models on the platform you will help shape and take to the next level.
- Build tools to help enable a higher degree of automation in our business processes, in particular on areas like data collection and data availability surveillance.
- Build APIs to expose our data to clients and build tooling to manage our systems and data.

Who are you:
- You have a relevant university degree.
- At least 5 years of professional development experience with Java or Python, preferably experience with both.
- Experience with at least one of the larger cloud vendors - we are using Google Cloud Platform and key services from Google's offering.
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases. You will meet a variety of data types including time series.
- Interest in or experience with the operational aspects of keeping cloud services running and monitored is a plus.
- Experience with continuous delivery, Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
- Proficiency in Norwegian is a plus.

By joining Wattsight, you get:
- A positive international working environment characterized by expertise, responsibility and innovation.
- Professional and personal development in a company experiencing strong growth.
- A strong team culture among supportive colleagues, where team spirit and cooperation are highly valued and rewarded.
- Personal training opportunities.
- Central and newly refurbished offices in Oslo or Arendal
- Good pension benefits and insurance plans.

We will consider applicants consecutively. We look forward to receiving your application! For further information regarding the position, don't hesitate to contact Kari-Anne Slaaen, HR Manager, at +47?992 71?779 or Sigve Litsheim, CTO, +47?958 17?386.

We kindly decline any contact with recruiting/staffing agencies.