Senior Software Developer at Okra Solar

Skills you command

• 4+ years as a Software Developer
• Familiarity with our stack:
• Core: AWS, Typescript, NodeJS, React
• Supporting cast: RabbitMQ, AWS CDK, Python, Gitlab Pipelines, Docker, NextJS, Redux, MySQL, Postgres
• Tight time management & self-organizing skills
• Clear and frequent communicator
• Ability to solve problems autonomously (not excluding asking colleagues for help!)
• Curiosity: a learner more than a knower

Challenges you will face

• Infrastructure: strengthen an AWS-based infra for 10x growth while navigating cost pressure and plugging manual gaps and other weaknesses.
• Observability: build towards a proactive approach to surface issues instead of waiting for our customers to check-in, through endpoint metrics, better logging, tracing, and high signal:noise alerts.
• Billing: bolster our billing logic to deal with tricky problems like offline billing, financing, spotty connections, concurrency and software-firmware alignment.
• ‍Network planning: develop our scattered satellite-image-based simulation tools into a more unified and reliable experience, so we can generate plans for electrification in weeks instead of months.
• Mobile app: level up our existing PWA from covering basic field operations to become the core platform to empower field agents and households to fix issues, optimize project performance, and unlock opportunities for communities – think LLMs to solve field ops complexities, connections to agriculture partnerships, and so much more.

You will fit right in if…

• You are a highly capable individual contributor, capable of unblocking yourself and deliver quality output that solves challenging problems.
• A morally ambitious mission and challenging problems are your biggest motivation.
• You communicate with clarity and intent. Your colleagues never wonder what you are up to or stuck on, and your documentation is useful.
• You prioritize ruthlessly, asking “does this move the needle?” and parking it if not.
• You give feedback early and constructively, and welcome it yourself.
• You measure success by how you elevate the team.
• Shipping energizes you, but you also won’t let critical details slip by unnoticed.

Do not apply if…

• Rapidly changing priorities is a dealbreaker.
• You seek a people-management or tech lead track right now.
• Working solo for days is your favorite approach.