Hands-on Software Architect

Job description

At iwell, we help European businesses become more energy independent and resilient through energy management solutions. Our in-house developed EMS and modular battery storage help businesses stay in control of their energy and become future-proof. We are a fast-growing international team of engineers, software developers, creative thinkers, and customer-focused business developers who are determined to make a positive impact.

Hands-on Software Architect at iwell

The Role

As iwell's Hands-on Software Architect, you oversee the technical direction of our entire software stack, and you spend roughly half of your time writing code yourself. We don't believe in architects who only draw boxes on whiteboards. The best technical decisions are made by people who feel the consequences in the code.

Our stack spans the full path from device to cloud: C# applications running on Azure IoT Edge at our sites and batteries, an Angular web app with a C# backend, several cloud services on Azure, data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform, and optimization applications in Python. You'll hold the mental map of how it all fits together and steer it toward something coherent as we scale.

The hands-on part of your week you will work with one of our development teams, on foundational work such as improving our identity provider. You're the kind of engineer who can drop into an unfamiliar codebase and be useful within days, and you genuinely enjoy doing it.

Success in this role means being able to:

• Set the architectural direction across our heterogeneous, multi-cloud, edge-to-cloud platform, and coach tech leads toward a jointly built roadmap.
• Move fluently between C#, TypeScript/Angular and Python.
• Get up to speed quickly in any codebase, and help others do the same.
• Raise the technical bar by working alongside engineers, not above them.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of iwell's full software stack and keep it coherent as the company grows.
• Spend around 50% of your time writing production code.
• Make and document key technical decisions: technology choices, service boundaries, data flows, security and identity, deployment and operability.
• Partner with tech leads and product managers to align technical direction with product strategy.
• Coach and mentor engineers, reviewing designs and code.
• Keep an eye on non-functional concerns, scalability, reliability, security, cost, across Azure and GCP.

What we are looking for

• Substantial experience as a software engineer, with a track record of taking architectural responsibility for non-trivial systems.
• Productivity in at least two of C#/.NET, TypeScript/Angular and Python.
• Hands-on experience with Azure (and ideally GCP), including identity, security, and platform services.
• Familiarity with edge or IoT scenarios; Azure IoT Edge is a plus.
• Strong communication skills, you can explain a tricky architectural trade-off to a junior engineer and to a C-level stakeholder on the same day. Fluency in English is required.
• A pragmatic mindset: you choose the boring, well-understood solution when it's the right one, and you know when it isn't.

We care

• 30 days of holiday to rest and recharge, plus a yearly company holiday and one volunteer day per year.
• Get a budget of €1,500 per calendar year for personal development and career growth.
• Pension plan with BrandNewDay.
• We cover your travel costs (bike, car, or public transport).
• Mobile phone allowance: €25 per month.
• We offer the possibility to work from home 1 day per week.
• Office perks, including daily fresh fruit and team activities.