Senior Software Developer

About Solar Panda

Solar Panda is a Canadian high-growth, clean-tech company providing home solar systems and appliances to customers in Kenya who lack access to electricity. Our loan-to-own model enables families to afford reliable electricity and life-changing appliances, significantly improving their lives.

Solar Panda provides innovative solar power systems for lighting and TV in rural communities. Our loan-to-own model allows households to have electricity for less than the daily cost of kerosene and mobile phone charging. With over 1 billion people worldwide without access to electricity, we believe that access to electricity should be a right for everyone, everywhere. Find us at www.solarpanda.com.

About The Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Senior Software Developer to join our dynamic team in a largely work-from-home setting. Your primary focus will be backend engineers to build scalable systems using TypeScript and Node.js within microservices architecture. You would work closely with the development team in Canada.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop backend services using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance server-side applications. Write clean, structured code that follows best practices.
• Create and manage microservices architecture.
• Build independent, deployable services with clear boundaries. Handle communication between services using REST, messaging, or event-driven patterns. Ensure resilience and scalability.
• Work with both relational (SQL) and document (NoSQL) databases.
• Design and optimize data storage, write efficient queries, manage migrations, maintain data integrity, and use caching where needed.
• Write automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
• Maintain test suites to ensure reliability and performance. Support CI/CD pipelines and apply test-driven or behavior-driven development when appropriate.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Review code for quality, performance, and security. Contribute to technical design sessions and suggest improvements for long-term architecture.
• Collaborate in Agile teams using Jira and GitHub.
• Work with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers in a Scrum environment. Manage tasks in Jira, contribute to pull requests in GitHub, and take part in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of professional development experience
• Proficiency in using Jira and Node.js expertise.
• Experience with TypeORM (or similar ORM)
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience with Agile , Jira and GitHUB
• Experience writing automated tests.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks in a remote work environment.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

About Solar Panda

Solar Panda is a Canadian high-growth, clean-tech company providing home solar systems and appliances to customers in Kenya who lack access to electricity. Our loan-to-own model enables families to afford reliable electricity and life-changing appliances, significantly improving their lives.

Solar Panda provides innovative solar power systems for lighting and TV in rural communities. Our loan-to-own model allows households to have electricity for less than the daily cost of kerosene and mobile phone charging. With over 1 billion people worldwide without access to electricity, we believe that access to electricity should be a right for everyone, everywhere. Find us at www.solarpanda.com.

About The Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Senior Software Developer to join our dynamic team in a largely work-from-home setting. Your primary focus will be backend engineers to build scalable systems using TypeScript and Node.js within microservices architecture. You would work closely with the development team in Canada.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop backend services using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance server-side applications. Write clean, structured code that follows best practices.
• Create and manage microservices architecture.
• Build independent, deployable services with clear boundaries. Handle communication between services using REST, messaging, or event-driven patterns. Ensure resilience and scalability.
• Work with both relational (SQL) and document (NoSQL) databases.
• Design and optimize data storage, write efficient queries, manage migrations, maintain data integrity, and use caching where needed.
• Write automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
• Maintain test suites to ensure reliability and performance. Support CI/CD pipelines and apply test-driven or behavior-driven development when appropriate.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Review code for quality, performance, and security. Contribute to technical design sessions and suggest improvements for long-term architecture.
• Collaborate in Agile teams using Jira and GitHub.
• Work with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers in a Scrum environment. Manage tasks in Jira, contribute to pull requests in GitHub, and take part in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of professional development experience
• Proficiency in using Jira and Node.js expertise.
• Experience with TypeORM (or similar ORM)
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience with Agile , Jira and GitHUB
• Experience writing automated tests.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks in a remote work environment.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred.