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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Greenlight Planet

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2009

⚡ Energy

🌍 Social Impact

👥 B2C

Energy • Social Impact • B2C

Greenlight Planet is a company that has transitioned to the brand Sun King. It specializes in designing, distributing, installing, and financing solar energy solutions, specifically for the 1. 8 billion people without reliable electricity access. The company provides a range of solar products, such as lanterns, home systems, and AC electricity systems, to meet diverse power needs across Africa and Asia. Sun King's solutions facilitate off-grid power access, offering reliable and sustainable energy alternatives to traditional power sources. The company operates on a global scale, including in regions such as East Africa, South Asia, and Oceania, and also provides pay-as-you-go financing options to make solar energy more accessible and affordable.

📋 Description

• Work as part of the Digitization and Automation team • Design, develop, and implement intelligent, technology-enabled solutions for a variety of business problems • Lead incident root-cause analyses • Write design documents and architecture maps • Mentor engineers through code review and pairing • Own systems after launch, including on-call responsibilities, runbooks, and costs • Use AI coding assistants daily while reviewing, testing, and taking ownership of generated code • Design and build applications and systems from wireframes and product requirements • Identify and fix bottlenecks and bugs • Design and develop logical and physical data models • Build for scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs • Create prototypes and proofs of concept • Own projects and their full development cycle end to end

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in Java and Python • Hands-on expertise with frameworks such as Spring Boot and Django/FastAPI • Expertise in AWS, including Lambda, SQS, S3, EC2 (Linux-based VMs), Load Balancer, and RDS • Expertise in SQL, including query plans, indexing, locking, primary–replica architecture, and schema changes on live tables • Prior experience working with Redis • Experience with microservices and distributed, event-driven system design, including webhooks, queues, and third-party API integrations • Observability experience with Grafana and Prometheus/Loki, or an equivalent stack • Experience running Docker in production, including images, Compose, and runtime configs • Working experience with message brokers and event-streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor • Ability to lead incident RCAs • Ability to write design docs and architecture maps • Experience mentoring engineers through code review and pairing • Experience owning systems after launch, including on-call, runbooks, and cost • Judgement to review, test, and take ownership of AI-generated code • Ability to design and build applications and systems from wireframes and product requirements documents • Ability to identify and fix bottlenecks and bugs according to operational requirements • Ability to design and develop logical and physical data models • Ability to build for scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs • Ability to create prototypes and proofs of concept • Ability to take complete, end-to-end ownership of projects and their development cycle

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.