[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @1KOMMA5°

Role Description

Your mission:

• Shape the organisation's technical strategy and innovation efforts.
• Accountable for consistent execution of technical decisions by setting clear direction and holding teams accountable for implementation.
• Ensure continuously that our software architecture is shaped in close alignment with product management to support current and future product direction.
• Lead architectural direction to enable the delivery of scalable, maintainable, and state-of-the-art solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Tackle and resolve deep technical challenges with urgency and precision.
• Mentor and challenge engineers to accelerate their professional growth.
• Build and scale a high-performance tech organisation and engineering culture.
• Embed security and reliability as direct customer value.
• Architect our systems and APIs so AI agents operate as first-class users with machine-readable contracts and structured errors that let agents self-correct.
• Drive the org's transformation to agentic engineering, reshaping how teams work so agents execute safely while humans stay accountable.

Technologies you will work with include:

• AI-assisted development with Cursor and agentic coding workflows.
• Cloud & Infra: Google Cloud Platform, GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Run, Terraform/IaC, Vercel.
• Messaging & IoT: Eclipse Hono, MQTT, Mender.
• Data & BI: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, SQLMesh, Looker.
• Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry.
• Languages: TypeScript (Nest.js), Java, Go, Flutter, Ruby on Rails.
• DevOps: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Linear, Notion, Figma, Miro.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in software development with multiple general-purpose programming languages for a minimum of 5 years.
• A proven track record of architecting scalable and secure systems, demonstrating a strong commitment to quality.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing APIs that enable seamless integration and system communication.
• An agile and result-oriented mindset, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and teamwork.
• Experience communicating with stakeholders in business terms and understanding the technical implications of their requirements.
• Industry-leading experience driving cross-functional teams and enforcing engineering alignment in fast-paced environments, including making and following through on critical technical decisions.
• Experience designing systems and APIs for agent consumption, with structured errors and clear contracts that let agents self-correct.
• Capability to guide an engineering team through the shift to agentic engineering, reshaping workflows so agents execute safely while humans stay accountable for every outcome.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, with proficiency in German considered a plus.

Benefits

• You are part of an international, dynamic, and highly motivated team of people who have proven to make things happen.
• With your work, you accelerate the "energy transition" and hence have a direct impact on our climate.
• Work with and learn from other super-smart colleagues.
• You will enjoy direct contact with core decision-makers.
• You will enjoy the best chances of entering full-time in one of Europe’s most thriving scaleups.
• You work remotely (Germany-wide), with offices in Hamburg, Berlin or Munich.
• Create a healthy balance alongside your work and enjoy all the benefits of the EGYM Wellpass.
• Benefits and discounts are yours with Futurebens.
• Whether city bike or e-bike - be flexible with our job bike leasing and do something good for the environment at the same time.
• Individualised opportunities for professional development.
• Reporting directly to the CTO.

Company Description

"At 1KOMMA5°, our vision is to accelerate CO2 neutral life for all! We created an easy one-stop-shop to buy and install solar, charging stations and heat pumps, with the purpose of liberating all European homes from the shackles of fossil fuels. With Heartbeat, we make clean energy smarter. Connecting our customers into one powerful clean energy operating system to enable flexible tariffs and to ultimately follow the rhythm of wind and sun!" - Philipp Schröder (CEO 1KOMMA5°)