Software Developer, Renewable Energy Software (DERMS) - #182169

Software Developer, Renewable Energy Software (DERMS)

(.NET/Web Developer) – Applicants Outside the Greater Toronto Area are welcome to Apply!

Are you looking to work in the energy transition? Do you thrive in a busy development environment? If this sounds like you, then Survalent wants to hear from you! Survalent seeks a Senior .NET/Web Software Developer to join the Distributed Energy Management Resource System (DERMS) Development team. The DERMS team is responsible for building a Distributed Energy Management Resource System to help utilities manage renewable resources such as Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to deliver grid services and help balance supply and demand. If you are passionate about creating real-time software applications to help combat climate change and eager to learn within a team of accomplished industry developers, this is a great opportunity.

What will you be doing?

• Create Web Services, including message queuing, push services, and required interfaces to support external product integration.
• Work within the development team to design, develop, and deliver various web applications for DERMS.
• Optimize applications and leverage your experience with debugging, code analysis, and performance profiling.
• Design and create test procedures, test data, and execute testing to ensure the delivered feature is bug-free and meets the required technical and business specifications.
• Trouble-shoot software issues with an aim to resolve them in timely manner.
• Provide support and product knowledge to end users and internal stakeholders.
• Drive technical standards, best practices, and support a culture of continuous improvement.
• Contribute as a member of the development team, utilizing Agile development processes to ensure efficiency while maintaining product robustness and quality
• Other duties as assigned

What You’ll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science or Power Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years full stack software development experience with strong focus on .NET frameworks and programming languages (C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core and other frameworks).
• Experience with modern front-end web frameworks (e.g. Angular, Vue, React etc.).
• Proven experience in creating and testing RESTful APIs using .NET and documentation tools like Swagger or API Blueprint.
• Excellent knowledge of web services standards and technologies (e.g. Web Sockets, JS, XML, SOAP, WSDL, REST, JSON, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with the Microsoft suite of technologies including server infrastructure, .NET based development tools, programming languages and MS SQL Server RDBMS.
• Strong knowledge of database integration and development including (Object-Relational Mapping - ORM libraries like Entity Framework) and SQL Stored Procedure.
• Experience with multi-threading, web optimization (caching, load balancing) and other performance related design constructs.
• Good knowledge of web security protocols, practices and data protection techniques e.g. end-to-end message encryption and Web/SQL injection prevention etc.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles and design patterns.
• Ability to communicate technical and non-technical information verbally and in writing.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starting, quick learning and teamwork skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience using C++, Visual Studio and developer frameworks including WPF, Windows Forms, Windows/Worker Services, Data Report designer/Generation.
• Experience working with industry standard interfaces (Multispeak, CIM).
• Experience within a spatial/geographic problem set and knowledge of tiled map libraries (e.g. Open Street Map, Bing, Google).
• Familiarity with multiple databases (e.g. MS SQL Server, Oracle, Redis, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design.
• Familiarity developing real-time software applications.
• Experience with various source control applications including Git, Bitbucket.
• We value experience and knowledge of Docker containers.
• Experience using collaboration tools including Confluence, JIRA.
• Experience with CURL, Postman, and similar technologies.
• Experience working with DERMS or DERs systems.

This is a full-time permanent position reporting to the Team Lead, DERMS. If you are interested in joining a growing organization in this exciting role, please submit your cover and resume.

About Us:

Survalent Technology Corporation is the leading provider of real-time smart grid management systems for enabling visualization, optimization and improved operations for utilities. For six decades, we have helped more than 800 utilities use operational data to increase reliability, efficiency, and customer service. With our proven and reliable SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), Distribution Management System (DMS), Outage Management System (OMS), and Substation Automation (SA) solutions, utilities transform data into actionable intelligence. We partner with utilities across the globe to create mission critical solutions that will achieve the promise of the Smart Grid.

Survalent values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of all races, color, creed, ancestry, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, marital status, family status, and those with disabilities to apply. Survalent is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing accommodation for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

While we appreciate the interest of all applicants, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.