Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Global | Remote | English)

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Job Description

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Global | Remote | English)

Location: Fully Remote (Europe-friendly overlap preferred; other time zones considered with sufficient overlap)
Employment Type: Full-Time/Contractor
Languages Required: English fluency
Experience: Senior 6-10 year experience, ideally large history of open-source contributions
Salary Range: 40-130kEUR
Reports to: Head of Software Engineering
Travel Requirements: Occasional travel to workshops or team events needed
Start Date: Early/Mid 2026 (TBD)

About the Organization:

Open Energy Transition (OET) is a remote-first non-profit building open-source tools and data for energy and grid planning. We exist to make energy planning more transparent, reproducible, and accessible - and to help open approaches become the global standard by 2030.

Role Overview:

We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to help us build and improve applications across OET: product-grade web apps, dashboards, data tools, and internal platforms that support modelling workflows and real-world decision-making.

You’ll work across the stack, frontend, backend, and data layer, to ship new capabilities, modernize existing systems, and raise reliability and developer velocity. The scope is intentionally broad: some work will be user-facing (dashboards, reporting, results exploration), some will be platform-facing (APIs, databases, automation), and some will be glue work that turns modelling outputs into usable applications.

This is a hands-on role for someone who ships, cares about quality, and enjoys building pragmatic systems that others can trust.

Open Source at OET:

We build in the open. This role includes helping us ship and maintain open-source software responsibly — strong documentation, tests, contributor workflows, and a bias toward upstreaming improvements when it makes sense.

Key Responsibilities:

Build and evolve web applications and dashboards (results exploration, reporting, operational tools).

Improve and maintain existing platforms: refactors, performance, UX improvements, and reliability work.

Design and implement APIs + data models that make data easy to query, audit, and reuse.

Create critical automation: scripts, tooling, and reproducible environments that reduce manual work.

Integrate with Python-first pipelines and modelling workflows (ETLs, orchestration tools like Snakemake, Apache Airflow or similar).

Own quality via CI/CD, pragmatic testing, and stable deployments.

Communicate clearly in a remote-first team: async docs, high-signal PRs, and thoughtful reviews.

Qualifications:

Senior experience shipping full-stack products end-to-end.

Experience building cloud services and web apps, and setting up and managing their databases

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, etc, or equivalent experience

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Fluency in Python and JavaScript, and their environments (venv, conda/mamba, pixi)

Fluency in backend and frontend frameworks (Flask, React, Angular, Vue) and languages (JS, TypeScript, Rescript)

Experience with CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins), containerization tools (e.g.,Docker, Kubernetes, OpenTofu) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Golang).