About this role
At Priva Energy, we build software systems that help customers manage and optimize energy in real-world environments, from greenhouses to buildings. You'll join one of our Energy Solutions teams (spanning Building Automation, Horticulture, and Energy Flexibility Trading), landing wherever the need is greatest at the time, and you'll also carry some responsibility for the cloud infrastructure and scalability that benefits teams beyond your own. You'll work at the intersection of three things: shipping features end-to-end in Priva Digital Services (touching both backend and, where needed, the front end), integrating optimization and forecasting logic into production services , and strengthening the cloud/DevOps foundation the whole department builds on. You don't need to be equally deep in all three, but you do need to be comfortable moving between them, and you should genuinely enjoy the connective, systems-level work of making things run reliably in production. Come Shape the Future of Sustainable Energy with Priva Priva Energy is working to become the leading global lifecycle partner for high-performing, sustainable buildings, horticultural operations, and energy distribution and management companies. Energy systems are transforming fast: grid congestion, dynamic pricing, decentralized production, and tightening sustainability regulation are reshaping what our customers need from us. Our Digital Twin and optimization technologies exist to meet that shift at scale, delivering measurable results such as lower energy intensity, greater flexibility and reliability, reduced operating costs, and structurally lower emissions. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll help turn that ambition into production reality: building the services, integrations, and cloud foundation that put our optimization and forecasting capabilities to work for customers every day. Your work will directly contribute to: Reducing and optimizing energy costs and emissions across Europe Enabling customers to participate in future energy flexibility and trading markets Optimizing multi-energy systems (heat, cold, electricity, storage, HVAC) Driving the transition toward autonomous, intelligent buildings and greenhouses Helping customers stay compliant with increasing regulatory pressure (e.g., CSRD) What You’ll Do Priva Digital Services & product engineering Design and build backend services that process data and execute optimization logic for products across Neo Heat, Neo Light, Neo Building, and Neo Smart Contribute to user-facing Priva Digital Services features end-to-end, including front-end work where it's the fastest path to shipping value Build and maintain APIs for internal and external integration Optimization & forecasting integration Implement and integrate optimization and forecasting logic into scalable, production-ready systems. You bring these models into production; you don't develop new optimization theory Work on data processing pipelines, scheduling logic, and system orchestration Cloud infrastructure & DevOps Own and improve cloud infrastructure (Azure) that supports scalability across Energy Solutions teams Strengthen CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment practices so systems are reliable, performant, and maintainable in real-world operation Collaborate with product, domain experts, and other engineers across teams to deliver end-to-end solutions Contribute to technical design decisions within your domain, and participate in the full software lifecycle: ideation → design → development → testing → deployment → monitoring What you will NOT do This is not a research or modelling role. You implement and integrate optimization and forecasting models rather than developing new theory You are not expected to be a dedicated front-end specialist or a dedicated DevOps specialist. The role spans these areas by design, so depth in every direction isn't the bar