Senior Developer Python

You will have the exciting opportunity of gaining valuable experience in a start-up environment and contribute to reducing 4.In your role as a Senior Software Engineer , you will collaborate with the engineering team using agile development practices, supporting our engineers and discussing designs with the team, making sure all the key software quality characteristics are met. Podero are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will work directly with our engineering department and contribute to the development and success of our customers, their customers—households and businesses—and our software engineering teams. We are seeking a candidate who can start in September 2025 (approximately 6 months from now). Mentor the team on the relevant techniques, methods, and tools to achieve the highest standards of quality of our Software solutions
You have proven experience in developing and architecting complex software products and mentoring software teams, ideally in a B2B SaaS startup context:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Development
• Having built and delivered Software solutions operating in large-scale environments with high levels of complexity
• Demonstrate high expertise using the Python programming language.
• Strong understanding of Agile Software Development practices

Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and Azure DevOps
Familiarity with Software Reliability practices is a plus
As you will be a senior team member, we expect you to be an expert in many of the domains mentioned above and to have a good generalist understanding of software development, engineering practices, startups, and various stakeholders involved in the operation of a software company. Professional level education in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related area
Excellent communication and collaboration skills , with a customer-centric approach to problem-solving. Learning / Professional Growth : Join a fast-paced, early-stage startup with significant learning and career advancement opportunities. Startup experience: Remote or hybrid work options with the ability to work in our Vienna office. Travel budgets for customer visits, conferences, and industry events.
~ Energy suppliers face many challenges in their B2C business, including low margins, low differentiation of their electricity offers, emerging market players, unprofitable electricity trading, and limited IT resources.
Podero is a software platform for utilities that reduces the energy cost of flexible consumer devices like heat pumps, EVs and chargers, inverters, and home batteries by over 25%. Podero steers devices based on consumers’ PV production, fluctuating spot electricity prices, and the grid-stabilizing balancing energy markets. Podero enables utilities to trade the aggregate device power on the energy markets, ensuring a win-win situation for both utilities and consumers.
Customers of Podero include E.By creating the most profitable trading software for electric devices (Distributed Energy Resources).
We are solving one of the most fundamental problems of the electricity grid caused by the rapid consumer adoption of Distributed Energy Resources like heat pumps, EVs, and batteries, and the simultaneous exponential growth of renewable power generation. Renewables like solar and wind cause spikes in production, while Distributed Energy Resources cause spikes in consumption — unfortunately, mostly at opposite times.
We balance supply and demand in electricity markets by utilizing existing consumer devices as energy storage. Each time we shift the electricity use of consumer devices to match supply and demand, our software makes profitable trades, benefiting consumers and utilities. This balances the grid, which means that more consumers can use CO2-friendly Distributed Energy Resources and more renewables can be brought online.
We are driven by customer obsession, working closely with customers to uncover what is true in our market, gathering frequent feedback, communicating openly, and building solutions that truly meet their needs. We value learning on the job, learning from colleagues, customers, mentors, and competitors.