Backend Engineer, tibber
Energy Deal
Digital electricity supplier
Open for applications
Digital electricity supplier
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To use digital technology to make electricity consumption smarter.
Role
Who you are
- A skilled backend engineer with experience designing and running large-scale distributed systems. You are:
- Fluent in German and English, comfortable navigating both technical and regulatory discussions
- Based in Berlin (or willing to relocate) and ready to work closely with our local market experts
- Excited — or at least curious — to dive deep into the German energy market and master its EDI/BDEW standards
- A proactive, self-driven problem-solver who thrives with autonomy, communicates transparently, and collaborates constructively across teams
- Bonus points if you have experience with EDIFACT/BDEW messaging, the energy sector, or other highly regulated/high-volume transactional systems (e.g., finance, telecom)
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer at Tibber, you’ll play a key role in powering Tibber’s integrations with the German energy market — a critical enabler for helping households use energy smarter and greener
- You’ll design and operate services that process millions of market transactions reliably and at scale, ensuring Tibber stays compliant and competitive in one of Europe’s most dynamic energy markets by combining solid engineering practices with a deep understanding of its ecosystem, practices, and workflows
- Your work will directly support our mission to make sustainable energy usage effortless for our users
- Collaborate in a small, close-knit backend team — working daily with your Product Manager as part of the team — and partner cross-functionally when needed to evolve integration capabilities and tackle complex data flows
- Implement and maintain EDIFACT message flows (e.g. UTILMD, MSCONS, INVOIC) in line with BDEW specifications, analyzing updates and implementing required changes to ensure compliance and optimize workflows for performance, conversion, and reliability
- Build and scale backend services that process millions of transactions in the German energy market, using a modern stack (dotnet, TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Postgres) in a microservices architecture
- Take full operational ownership of the services you build — from monitoring and incident management to continuous improvement
- Shape Tibber’s technical direction by contributing to architecture discussions and long-term decisions that strengthen our position in the German market
Application process
- We usually respond within two weeks
Our take
The average household today is in a position to purchase electricity from a range of suppliers, but classically will only buy from one. Tibber supplies an AI for households to purchase energy from a number of suppliers, at the best prices at the best time of day, to reduce their electricity costs, alongside helping them to reduce usage in their homes.
The platform was built as a response to outdated utility management tools. Users access the service via an app, with the AI purchasing electricity automatically at the lowest possible price, as well as alerting customers to consume energy during the cheapest hours of the day.
The Tibber hub for smart homes is able to connect various energy sources, such as solar panels and EV chargers, to enable more intelligent electricity production as well as consumption. The company has seen huge amounts of investment, serves hundreds of thousands of households, and has its sights set on continued expansion across Europe.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Mar 2024
$104.9m
LATE VC
Mar 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $285.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Offices in Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin and Førde
- Annual pop-up office, to gather the work force to work, explore a new city and spend time together
- “No shoe” policy at the office to enhance the feeling of coming home - a great opportunity when it comes to showing off your slipper fashion range
Company HQ
Førde, Vestland
Leadership
Edgeir Vårdal Aksnes
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former EVP and Head of Software and Business Development at Enoro. Previously Development Manager at Visma. Co-founded Deriga.
Daniel Lindén
(Co-Founder & CPO)Former Head of Product Management at Enoro. Previously Head of Product Portfolio at Tieto, with experience in Business Development.
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