We’re a new generation software company based in Hyderabad, helping to scale digital businesses to disrupt global utility retail markets. We provide technology development, customer experience and process optimisation services to support our award-winning utility retailers in New Zealand and Australia.
It’s an exciting time where traditional utilities need to innovate. Consumers expect companies to do good for their employees, customers, local communities, and for the future of the planet (all while offering seamless user experience that’s great value). Our strategy recognises that the exceptional technology we create makes us one of the best consumer facing businesses in our industry.
Our Culture: The “Real” Deal We don’t just build software; we build careers through our Employee Value Proposition (EVP):
- Real Growth: Learning is integral to delivery. We provide clear pathways and role-based upskilling and certifications.
- Real Care: energytec elevate (e²): 3 hours of protected in-work learning time each week to enable sustainable high performance, continuous development, and long-term career growth; we value sustainable impact over burnout.
- Real Impact: Turn your learning into a legacy. Work with Practice Champions to strengthen our platform architecture and reduce dependencies.
Job Description:
Senior Software Consultant (Full-Stack Developer)
About the role:
We are seeking a Senior Software Consultant to lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions for our product platform. This role requires strong technical depth in backend engineering, cloud architecture, and modern software delivery practices, along with the ability to lead teams, solve complex problems, and partner effectively across functions.
AI-first engineering at energytec.ai
At energytec.ai (eTEC), we build with an AI-first mindset. We are a human-led, agent-operated organization where engineers own outcomes and use AI responsibly to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and strengthen platform resilience.
- Apply AI across the SDLC: design assistance, coding, test generation, security checks, documentation, incident summarization, and runbook automation.
- Maintain guardrails: code review, security and privacy controls, and governance are non-negotiable; impact is measured via SLOs, DORA metrics, and cost/performance outcomes.
- Share knowledge: standardize prompts, playbooks, and reusable automation to multiply team effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage technical teams, including full-cycle and self-sufficient teams, to deliver high-quality software solutions end to end.
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend services, distributed systems, and APIs.
- Lead technical execution across teams, ensuring code quality and adherence to engineering best practices.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and secure deployment processes to improve delivery speed and reliability.
- Optimize AWS-based solutions with a focus on scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.
- Support production systems to meet agreed SLOs/SLAs, and drive improvements in system availability, performance, and incident response.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term corrective actions.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, technical consulting, or solution delivery, with proven ability to lead teams.
- Experience with front-end and web technologies such as Angular, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript; PHP experience is a plus.
- Hands-on expertise in Python and experience building distributed systems, microservices, and REST APIs.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and containerization technologies.
- Solid understanding of secure software development, automated testing, and software quality practices.
- Experience working with production systems governed by defined SLOs/SLAs.
- B.E./B.Tech (CSE), M.E./M.Tech (CSE), or MCA in Computer Science or Information Technology.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider (e.g., Azure, GCP).
- Familiarity with deployment strategies such as blue/green and canary releases.
- Familiarity with testing frameworks and tools such as Pytest, Jest, Karma, Jasmine, or similar.
- Exposure to AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices and tools to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery outcomes.
At the heart of our business is a purpose led culture. We’re a community at heart, and we know our people are unstoppable when they have the empowerment to come up with the answers. Here’s some of the benefits we give:
- Flexible working
- Growth academy and internal career opportunities - we grow our people while we grow our company
- Competitive salary
- Five extra days of paid leave every year to do the things that matter to you
- A paid volunteer day every year to give back to your community
- Parental leave that’s above and beyond legal requirements
Want to help us make it better? Apply and we’ll be in touch.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience overseeing technical teams
- Expertise in agile development methodologies
- CI/CD practices using cloud-based Microservices architecture
- Programming ability in PHP, Angular, HTML, JQuery, Python
- Experience in responsive design using CSS and API development
- Experience in CI/CD and AWS or any other cloud services
- Working knowledge of Containers such as Docker or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with automated testing frameworks like Jest, Karma, Jasmine
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science or related field
What We Do
EnergyTech Global Private Limited is part of The Energy Collective, a company incorporated and registered in New Zealand. The Energy Collective is a global retail energy and technology business. We exist to create and scale digital brands which leverage the power of our proprietary technology platform to disrupt retail markets by outperforming our competitors on both cost and service and allowing all our customers to contribute to the energy transition. The Energy Collective is currently operating a retail business with the brand names Electric Kiwi in New Zealand and ReAmped Energy in Australia. EnergyTech Global is the technology super power of The Energy Collective - tasked to develop and maintain our in-house software solutions. Our staff provide awesome customer experience services to retailers too
