Solcast is looking for a multi-talented software developer to help us expand, improve and support our solar radiation and solar power forecasting API to enable industry transition to a more solar powered future. The role is an 18 month, full-time contract position. We have an office in Canberra ACT, and we are also open to remote work within the +7 to +12 UTC time zones, preferably within Australia.
Responsibilities
- Writing web services using . NET Core and the ServiceStack framework
- Write unit and integration tests for the API
- Working with customers of the API including troubleshooting and writing documentation
- Working with our researchers to support them furthering the field of solar radiation forecasting
- Building internal tools to make our developers and researchers lives easier
- Occasional working across multiple programming languages when required, this may include R, MatLab, Python and others.
- Building and maintaining applications running in a Linux and Docker environments
- Supporting our applications running on AWS including support resolution and troubleshooting
- Optimizing database queries and functions.
- Building and integrating automation and monitoring systems to help us keep the API online without human interventionnpm dt
- Responding to production outages out of hours (compensated with time-in-lieu)
Required skills and experience for this position
- Strong interest in solar energy technology
- Working well with a remote team
- Experience supporting linux production systems and tooling
- Working openly within a team, comfortable making, owning and sharing mistakes, learning from them and moving on
- Strong skills in writing HTTP based APIs
- Strong front end web development
- Strong . NET or Java experience
- Good with SQL, confident working with both standard SQL, Postgres and . NET/Java ORMs
Desirable skills and experience for this position
- Working experience of GIS based systems
- Experience working with AWS
- Working with statistical modeling tools such as R or MatLab
- Experience with the ServiceStack framework If you think you fit some or all the above, we’d love to hear from you, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@solcast.com.au No contacts from recruitment agencies or consultancies will be considered.
