Full-Stack Product Engineer, Ruby on Rails (m/f/d) at Solar Startup

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About Us At VREY , we're building the EnergyOS for multi-family buildings . Germany has over 3.3 million apartment buildings — and they are the blind spot of the energy transition. VREY combines certified meter operation with proprietary software , enabling property owners to sell self-generated solar power directly to their tenants — simply, and without having to become an energy supplier themselves (§42b EnWG). Regulatory obligation becomes a profitable, predictable opportunity: Double-digit returns and asset appreciation for owners, ~20% electricity cost savings for tenants, and digital infrastructure for storage, heat pumps, and flexibility. We already manage a three-digit number of projects — including some of Germany's largest property holders and housing cooperatives — in all 16 federal states. In the course of our seed financing, we raised €3.3M from leading impact and energy VCs (including Rubio Impact Ventures, HTGF, and Kopa Ventures). We're now entering the next growth phase and expanding our team. We're at the beginning of a structural market shift. Join us and help build the leading EnergyOS. Your Profile You have 2+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications, ideally with Ruby on Rails . Experience in comparable frameworks (Django, Laravel, Spring Boot, NextJS) will also be considered, if you are truly motivated to learn and work with Rails. You have strong frontend development skills, ideally with solid fundamentals (HTML, CSS and JavaScript), as well as familiarity with the Rails-specific frontend technology (Hotwire, Turbo and Stimulus) and a framework like React or Vue. You have an eye for UI and UX - you know interface patterns, think from a user's point of view and have worked with design systems. You're comfortable designing and optimizing relational database schemas (we use PostgreSQL). You are used to working with APIs and integrating with 3rd-party services. You are familiar with cloud infrastructure - Heroku, AWS, or similar - including CI/CD pipelines and basic monitoring. You are actively working with AI and pushing for efficient agentic setups; we are establishing Claude Code in the team and the whole company. You like to take ownership for the features and components you work on and you are proactive in the product development. You are excited about startups and want to make a real impact on the produ…