Application Guide

How to Apply for Data Engineer

at Enode

🏢 About Enode

Enode is building the digital infrastructure for a renewable-powered electricity grid by connecting green energy hardware through APIs. Unlike generic tech companies, Enode specifically focuses on enabling flexible energy systems through software, making it an ideal workplace for engineers passionate about climate tech and tangible environmental impact. Their remote-first EU team works on solving critical infrastructure challenges for the energy transition.

About This Role

This Data Engineer role at Enode is central to their Flex product, responsible for building and maintaining reliable data pipelines that power demand/availability signals and monitoring for renewable energy systems. You'll evolve their data platform with pragmatic improvements while ensuring data quality through testing and lineage, enabling stakeholders to trust outputs for critical energy grid decisions. The role balances platform development with enabling self-serve analytics and collaborating on data science work for production models.

💡 A Day in the Life

A typical day might involve collaborating with data scientists on feature pipelines for Flex models, implementing dbt tests for new data sources from energy hardware, and documenting datasets for self-serve analytics while responding to data quality alerts from production pipelines. You'd balance platform improvement work with maintaining critical pipelines that power real-time energy availability signals for grid operators.

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🎯 Who Enode Is Looking For

  • Has experience building or evolving data pipelines/platforms in production environments, preferably in startup/scale-up settings where resources are constrained
  • Demonstrates a pragmatic 'improve the plane while flying' mindset with examples of incremental platform improvements while maintaining delivery
  • Shows strong ownership and proactivity in identifying what matters and pushing work forward in autonomous, small-team environments
  • Possesses solid SQL skills combined with data modeling expertise for creating well-structured datasets that enable self-serve analytics

📝 Tips for Applying to Enode

1

Highlight specific experience with energy data, IoT data streams, or time-series data relevant to energy hardware monitoring

2

Demonstrate your 'pragmatic platform mindset' with concrete examples of incremental improvements you've made to existing systems without major rewrites

3

Show how you've enabled data trust through specific implementations of testing, lineage tracking, or anomaly detection in past roles

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Emphasize experience collaborating with data scientists on feature pipelines and productionization workflows

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Tailor your examples to show how you've operated effectively in small, autonomous teams with high ownership expectations

✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter

["Explain why you're specifically interested in Enode's mission of connecting green energy hardware and enabling flexible grids", "Provide concrete examples of how you've 'improved the plane while flying' - making pragmatic platform improvements while maintaining delivery", "Demonstrate your understanding of data quality challenges in production environments and how you've implemented guardrails", "Show how you've enabled self-serve analytics through well-modeled datasets and documentation in previous roles"]

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🔍 Research Before Applying

To stand out, make sure you've researched:

  • → Understand Enode's Flex product and how it enables demand response and grid flexibility through connected energy hardware
  • → Research the EU energy grid landscape and challenges with renewable integration that Enode is solving
  • → Explore the types of energy hardware (EV chargers, heat pumps, batteries) that Enode's APIs connect
  • → Look into the data challenges specific to IoT devices and time-series energy data that this role would handle

💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics

Based on this role, you may be asked about:

1 How would you approach evolving a data platform while maintaining existing Flex-critical pipelines for energy availability signals?
2 Describe your experience implementing data quality frameworks (dbt tests, anomaly detection, freshness checks) in production environments
3 How have you collaborated with data scientists on feature pipelines and productionization workflows in past projects?
4 What's your approach to making high-leverage tech choices when resources are constrained in a scale-up environment?
5 Can you walk through how you've enabled self-serve analytics through data modeling and documentation?
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⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid

  • Focusing only on large-scale platform rewrites without showing ability to make incremental improvements
  • Presenting generic data engineering experience without tailoring examples to energy/IoT data contexts
  • Emphasizing individual technical achievements over collaboration with stakeholders and enabling others' work

📅 Application Timeline

This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.

Typical hiring timeline:

1

Application Review

1-2 weeks

2

Initial Screening

Phone call or written assessment

3

Interviews

1-2 rounds, usually virtual

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