Hybris Developer

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, providing affordable solar solutions to the 1.8 billion people without reliable access to electricity. By combining product design, fintech, and field operations, Sun King has connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding more than 200,000 new homes each month. Through ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing, customers make small payments to eventually own their solar systems, saving money and reducing reliance on harmful energy sources like kerosene.

Sun King employs 2,800 staff across 12 countries, with expertise in product design, data science, logistics, customer service, and more. The company is expanding its product range to include clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment solutions, all while supporting a diverse workforce — with women making up 44% of the team.

About the role

The Senior Software Developer - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to support Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products, and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.

What you will be expected to do:

• Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents.
• Design and develop coherent and physical data models to meet application requirements. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks/bugs according to operational requirements.
• Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.
• Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.
• Take complete ownership of projects (end to end) and their development cycle.
• Mentoring and guiding team members.
• Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like ticketing software and communication tools) with external services.
• Coordinate with Product Manager, development team, & business analysts.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience.
• Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java, Spring Framework.
• Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML).
• Should be very strong in problem solving, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong experience in SQL.
• Experience in the AWS suite (Ec2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway).
• Experience in scripting languages like Python.
• Experience in Microservice Architecture.
• Prior managing/mentoring experience.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, and deployment. 

Good to have:

• Knowledge on messaging systems RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Container-based application deployment (Docker or equivalent)
• Willing to learn new technologies and implement them in products.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

Data Engineer 

Mandatory Requirements  

• Experience in AWS Glue 

• Experience in Apache Parquet  
• Proficient in AWS S3 and data lake  
• Knowledge of Snowflake 
• Understanding of file-based ingestion best practices. 
• Scripting language - Python & pyspark 

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Create and manage cloud resources in AWS  
• Data ingestion from different data sources which exposes data using different technologies, such as: RDBMS, REST HTTP API, flat files, Streams, and Time series data based on various proprietary systems. Implement data ingestion and processing with the help of Big Data technologies  
• Data processing/transformation using various technologies such as Spark and Cloud Services. You will need to understand your part of business logic and implement it using the language supported by the base data platform  

• Develop automated data quality check to make sure right data enters the platform and verifying the results of the calculations  
• Develop an infrastructure to collect, transform, combine and publish/distribute customer data. 
• Define process improvement opportunities to optimize data collection, insights and displays. 
• Ensure data and results are accessible, scalable, efficient, accurate, complete and flexible  
• Identify and interpret trends and patterns from complex data sets  

• Construct a framework utilizing data visualization tools and techniques to present consolidated analytical and actionable results to relevant stakeholders.  
• Key participant in regular Scrum ceremonies with the agile teams   
• Proficient at developing queries, writing reports and presenting findings  
• Mentor junior members and bring best industry practices  

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 5-7+ years’ experience as data engineer in consumer finance or equivalent industry (consumer loans, collections, servicing, optional product, and insurance sales)  
• Strong background in math, statistics, computer science, data science or related discipline 
• Advanced knowledge one of language: Java, Scala, Python, C#  
• Production experience with: HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Oozie / Airflow, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker / Kubernetes, Snowflake   

• Proficient with 
• Data mining/programming tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, R, Python) 
• Database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake. and Greenplum) 
• Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy) 
• Comfortable learning about and deploying new technologies and tools.  

• Organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously and meet established deadlines.  
• Good written and oral communication skills and ability to present results to non-technical audiences  
• Knowledge of business intelligence and analytical tools, technologies and techniques. 

Familiarity and experience in the following is a plus:  

• AWS certification 
• Spark Streaming  
• Kafka Streaming / Kafka Connect  
• ELK Stack  
• Cassandra / MongoDB  

• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Confluence other related tools 

Experience: 2+ Years

Key Skills:

• Programming Languages: C# or VB.NET
• Server-Side Technologies: ASP.NET / MVC
• Front-End Technologies: Html5, ES5/ES6/ JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Ajax, Web Sockets
• Database: SQL Server

• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Ability to sell work and ideas, and respond positively to feedback.
• Candidates with 1+ years of agency work experience can apply. Prior experience in social media and Account Management will be preferred
• Candidate with Prior mandatory experience with copywriting, content, social media Management experience with a focus on creative direction,
• Strong communication & presentation skill along with client handling skill set is a must.
• Knowledge of Facebook,Instagram, Twitter, linkedin social media platforms

Roles/Responsibilities

• Own the coding/design of a sub-module
• Review the requirements and provide simple solutions  
• Design the sub-module working with the tech-lead
• Hands-on code the critical parts of the module
• Ensure coding standards, proper design patterns, writing test cases and project mgmt processes are followed
• Mentor the junior programmers
• Peer and junior programmers code review
• Work independently and proactively to deliver production-ready code with minimal guidance

Jobs Skills required

• Strong experience in developing either backend or front end systems
• Backend Exp: RoR, NodeJS, Java, Go, MySQL, Mongo
• Ability to work in a team structure and deliver projects
• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills in super changing environment
• Understanding of algorithms and data structures

Required Skills: ios + JS + flutter + bluetooth (all 4 are mandatory)

Experience in developing native apps.

Minimum Total Experience: 4+

Flutter Experience: 2+