Senior Data Engineer, PeakPower
Software solutions for sustainable energy usage
Job no longer available
Software solutions for sustainable energy usage
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To decarbonize energy, the built environment, and mobility through enabling intelligent energy in smart cities
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science or related technical field (e.g. EE, physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience
- AWS certifications, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience as a data engineer, software engineer or similar technical role using Python to build, test and deploy data pipelines
- Experience deploying and maintaining containerized cloud applications and cloud functions
- Experience working with relational and time series databases, like Postgres, TimescaleDB and InfluxDB
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Luigi
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code software such as Pulumi
- Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed computing frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink
- Experience building a data lake using Amazon S3, or similar technologies
- General knowledge of software development, APIs, data stores, networking, security, machine learning and cloud computing services
- You are self-sufficient in troubleshooting and resourceful in uncovering mysteries
- Continuously learning new frameworks and technologies to generate innovative solutions
- You are curious, but strive first to understand being seeking to be understood
- You have strong analytical skills and find solutions to complex problems and drive
- Excels when collaborating with a small team using an agile process
- Great communication and collaborative problem-solving skills
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering, you will have the opportunity to work with a talented group of Software Engineers, Data Scientists and business stakeholders in a fast-paced and exciting environment.
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will join a team on a mission to provide insights and predictions to our customers by acquiring and organizing large volumes of data from our production applications.
- Your people, process and technology skills will be especially valuable as you work with your team and others
- Deliver. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills to find solutions to complex problems and drive high-risk initiatives to completion on time, on budget
- Implement data pipelines that are secure, reliable and scalable by design to support data science teams and real-time business intelligence reporting
- Diagnose and troubleshoot problems; implement changes so problems only happen once
- Perform disaster recovery planning to ensure that data and systems can be recovered
- Report. You will monitor and report on progress, methodically evaluate processes and systems to improve efficiency; and implement processes that provide transparency and tracking
- Collaborate. You have strong interpersonal and communication skills to keep everyone on the same page when working cross-functionally
- Collaborate with software teams to understand and document the sources of data from production applications
- Collaborate with data scientists to deploy and optimize machine learning models
- Provide technical guidance and coaching to influence the design, development and testing of cloud applications that produce data
- Grow. The team prides themselves on creating a lot of things, with the motto to never fail! With an obsessive passion for product development at the bleeding edge of innovation and curiosity for continuous development, you will bring your expertise to create scalable systems
- Continuously improve data security, reliability, scalability and performance
- Stay current with the latest cloud computing, machine learning and data science technologies with opportunities to attend some of the industry’s leading data conferences
Our take
The world is shifting towards sustainable solutions in transport, housing, and energy. Individuals and organisations are also becoming more aware of the effect of their carbon footprints. In the face of many sustainability solutions such as electric vehicles, smart grids and alternative energy, Peak Power was founded to help its customers become a part of the climate transition solutions
Peak Power’s software solutions are built on Artificial Intelligence that helps its customers turn their individual clean technology solutions into one holistic ecosystem. It has improved upon the work done to create smart grids and smart power storage, and promises its customers both energy and money savings. Peak Power’s solutions and expertise are also available for traditional organisations in housing and transportation looking to make the switch to clean-tech.
The company has leveraged several institutional partnerships in order to expand its services and reach beyond Canada. It has amassed significant funding which will power its growth and help the company push clean technology into several carbon-negative industries.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2023
$35m
LATE VC
Sep 2022
$3.6m
GRANT
Total funding: $49.6m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance from Day 1 for Canadian team members
- Generous and flexible vacation and personal days
- Continuous development paid for by Peak Power
- Fun stuff including team events and happy hours
- Half days before each long weekend
- Gym memberships, WFH equipment budget, and much more
Company HQ
Entertainment District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Derek Lim Soo
(CEO)Previously held senior leadership positions at clean-tech companies like Advanced Green Innovations, Suzlon Wind Energy A/S, and Stirling Energy Systems.
Matthew Sachs
(COO)Previously a General Manager at Urbandale Construction. Also has experience as a Business & Energy Consultant at Sustainable Ventures Inc., Marbek Resource Consultants.
Imran Noorani
(Strategic Advisor)Was previously the Divisional President of Energy at Ozz Group. Has also worked in public & private energy such as Union Gas
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