Job Description

Description

Job location:

Remote in India

About the role:

The SDE2 - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to help 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 conceptual 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 softwares, communication tools) with external services Coordinate with the Product Manager, development team & business analysts

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

Development experience: 3 - 5 years Should be very strong in problem-solving, data structures, and algorithms. Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java and Spring Boot Framework Strong Experience in SQL Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML) Understanding of code versioning tools (e.g., git) Experience in Agile/Scrum development process and tools Experience in Microservice architecture Hands-on experience in AWS RDS, EC2, S3 and deployments

Good to have:

Knowledge on messaging systems RabbitMQ, Kafka. Knowledge of Python 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.

About Sun King

Sun King is the world's leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.

Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via 'pay-as-you-go' purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.

Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.



Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents -- over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.

From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King's products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.


Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more -- all with a passion to serve off-grid families.

Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King's workforce.