Frontend Software Engineer

As one of Europe's fastest growing greentech start-ups, we're determined to make our dream of bringing local and clean energy to every home a reality.

Otovo provides solar panels to homeowners' roof and we use software and technology to make solar energy easy, cheap, and available everywhere.

• We make solar easy by providing tailored offers to customers visiting our website and entering their address. No need for home visits.
• We make solar cheap by providing a platform where installers compete on price and quality to get assignments.
• We make solar available everywhere by quickly expanding our platform to new markets all over the world.

We have come a long way since launching in 2016—we're in Norway, Sweden, France, Spain, Poland, Italy, Germany and Brazil and we won't stop expanding.

We'd like your help

The team's mission begins on our home pages where people check their roof's potential with a few clicks. Otovo's sales agents customizes offers in a matter of seconds using the tools we make. We do everything in our power to make it easy to go solar. Our team make haste slowly, and strive for high velocity and quality. We grow fast, and make sure we build maintainable, scalable software on that path. We've come this far with a small team of 25 excellent engineers, designers, and product people, but now we need your help to keep up with the growing demands and market expansions.

What's in it for you?

You'll get to be part of our journey. We learn fast and encourage bold attempts and risky experiments: Otovo is a puzzle to work on and a riddle to solve. If you like that, you'll like it here.

We enjoy being together in the office, and are open to working from home when you need focus time.

Here's some more of what we offer:

• More solar panels → reduced global warming. You have a chance to make a meaningful contribution to the world.
• You'll work with enthusiastic colleagues; passionate for their fields and eager to learn.
• Great pension and insurance coverage.
• We take care of your internet and phone bills—no more slow access at home.
• Pick your own gear.
• We're very flexible regarding working hours.

You have experience with JavaScript and CSS

We'd prefer you to have few years of relevant experience, but an enthusiastic spirit willing to learn fast can compensate for the amount of years. We code in JavaScript and use Next.js, styled components and emotion as our primary frameworks. We code on Mac or Linux machines, usually with Visual Studio Code. We prefer to work in pairs, remote and in the office. We push code to production every day with help from Vercel, Heroku and GitHub.

You prioritize the users

We work to ensure our product is delightful to use for our users. You'll work together with a team of software engineers, a designer and a product manager where everyone seek to understand our customers; how our product is used, how it's perceived and which needs the users have. We do that with user interviews, behavior recordings, data collection through tools such as Google Analytics.

You want to work with online conversion

We improve our products and way of working through trial and error. You'll be working closely with the team's designer and product manager, and you need to have great empathy for the users. Our work is seen by consumers everywhere so details matter. We code with quality and strive to make our user interfaces loved. We constantly run variants of our interfaces to understand our users, and to improve conversion.

Hiring process

Update your CV and submit your application. If we think you could be a good fit, we'll start an interview process that looks like this:

• First interview - informal first meeting with potential future colleagues.
• Technical interview - working on a technical problem together.
• Third interview - meeting up with colleagues outside of the product function.

If all of the above checks out nicely, we'll call a reference that you provide before we send you an offer. The whole process should take between 2 and 3 weeks.

Any questions? Send an email to [email protected]. Otherwise, there's no time like now—help us make the world transition to renewable energy and submit your application 🌅