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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

• Design, build and integrate scalable and reliable backend systems based on business and product requirements. • Identify and resolve bottlenecks, bugs, and operational issues. • Drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, observability, and cost optimization. • Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for new products and features and do POC to validate new AI initiatives. • Take complete ownership of projects from design through deployment and production support. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, QA teams, and other engineering teams. • Lead the establishment and evolution of Sun King's AI Engineering capabilities, including architecture, tooling, development standards, and best practices. • Define and drive the AI technology stack, ensuring scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective adoption of AI across engineering and business workflows. • Architect systems that combine LLMs, retrieval systems, business logic, databases, APIs, and operational tooling. • Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and models, and provide technical direction on their adoption and integration within the organization. • Mentor and guide engineers on backend architecture, AI system design, and implementation best practices, fostering AI expertise across the team.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in designing and developing scalable REST-based micro-services and APIs using Java (Spring Boot) and Python. • Strong experience with SQL, database design, and query optimization. • Experience working with AWS services such as EC2, RDS and Lambda. • Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications or workflows in production environments. • Practical understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and their application to business problems. • Experience designing and building AI agents, copilots, workflow assistants, or intelligent automation systems. • Understanding of tool-calling, context management, prompt design, structured outputs, and hallucination mitigation techniques when integrating LLMs with business Systems, APIs and databases. • Ability to design end-to-end AI-powered solutions that combine deterministic systems with LLM-driven reasoning. • Prior experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

🏖️ 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.