Do you have professional experience with cloud technologies? Are you interested in serverless architecture? If you are a high performing developer with the capacity and personality to take charge of a team down the road if needed, read on!

Helvar as a company:

Helvar www.helvar.com is a 100 years old Finnish product and services company, into both software and hardware: advanced lighting control systems, products and services. Helvar Lighting Intelligence R&D is a 75 person technology group within the 250 person lighting solutions and components company. Based in Finland with Lighting Intelligence R&D offices in both Espoo and outside London, we develop intelligent energy efficient products and solutions for global customers in 50 countries. Inside our R&D Agile organization, we are developing new IoT solutions with products ranging from our own hardware and embedded software products and sensors, to mobile applications, developer APIs and cloud services. We even have our own advanced electronics factory, primarily for prototyping and production ramp ups.

Over the last few years we have gone through a digital renewal to foster our growth within product development and cloud-based systems, with an emphasis on digital, programmable and connected lighting control systems. We have since been developing advanced solutions including wireless, self-learning systems and sensor-based data services and analytics. Our wired and wireless lighting control systems will connect to the cloud; web user interfaces and apps will allow users to unleash the power of Helvar systems. Altogether, innovation is occurring around every corner from component development to our end-to-end systems.

The role:

As Software Engineer – Cloud Development, you will be part of an agile development team, working alongside similar professionals and reporting to the Software Team Leader. Your main responsibility will be to develop software for our cloud-based platform. This platform enables our systems deployed globally to collect data from buildings which is then analyzed to provide insights such as occupancy rates, space utilization, and energy consumption to building owner and tenants. We also use the collected information for various machine learning and AI based algorithms which can predict malfunctioning devices and future occupancy predictions.

You will be responsible for the designing, coding, testing and documenting of our cloud software. We heavily use serverless architecture and managed services in our solutions and we would expect you to be familiar of such services provided by the major cloud providers. This work involves close co-operation with other staff and departments both in Finland and abroad.

Requirements: 

• Minimum of 2 years of industry proven experience with Cloud services, preferably AWS
• Professional in JavaScript/Node.JS development.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL Databases: Cloud hosted, managed databases such as DynamoDB, RDS, AWS Aurora etc
• Experience in agile and test-driven development
• Knowledge of network programming, wireless technologies & distributed systems
• Knowledge of serverless architecture and microservices
• Prior experience or knowledge of various AWS managed services or similar such as Lambda, SNS, SES, S3, API Gateway, Cognito etc.
• Familiar with RESTful APIs

You are:

• An efficient developer with an understanding of algorithmic efficiency, data structures and object-oriented programming along with modern design patterns
• Passionate about delivering an outstanding experience
• Eager to learn and try new things
• Self-driven and able to communicate technical issues
• Wants to take responsibility and guide the team through technical challenges

A Career at Helvar gives you an opportunity to be part of the rapidly changing lighting industry. You will have wide responsibilities and various opportunities to influence research and development and to ensure our customers get the best product and service experience from us. At Helvar, we support you in your development as a professional. In our organization, an individual can really make a difference!

Helvar Behaviours:

• We create customer value in everything we do
• We are courageous and ambitious
• We take the initiative to collaborate for maximum value
• We always on feedback

Interested? Please apply via our website at www.helvar.com (Careers) by 7.6.2020. For additional information on the role, please contact our Cloud Solutions Team Lead Nadir Javed at nadir.javed@helvar.com.

Shortlisting and interviews:

If you are shortlisted, we will contact you and invite you to attend an interview. We’ll also tell you if there will be any skills tasks to complete as part of the recruitment process.

For further information about us, visit our website at www.helvar.com