Graduate Web Developer

With the UK government's ambitious goal of delivering 60GW of solar power by 2030, Solar Careers UK are on a mission to help recruit, train, and place over 43,000 new professionals into rewarding careers within the solar and battery storage industry.

Solar Careers UK is a division of Solar Energy UK, the trade association representing over 425 solar businesses across the country. Many of these companies specialise in delivering high-quality solar installations for domestic, commercial, and utility-scale projects.

For the industry's most in-demand jobs, we have been asked to assist with the recruitment of full-time, permanent installation teams from across all regions of the United Kingdom.

By completing this application Solar Careers UK can help connect you to Graduate Web Developer - Glasgow live job vacancies that match your skills and experience, and provide guidance on the qualifications and training needed to pursue your chosen career in the solar sector.

If you are enthusiastic about renewable energy, whatever sector you currently work in, we encourage you to apply and join us in our mission to create a more sustainable future for everyone.

New entrants welcome.

Would you like to take your first software development footsteps in a growing company that's using technology to make the transition to a low carbon future easier?

Alongside our core business distributing components of renewable energy systems, we have a software team that builds and maintains our increasingly popular web applications for designing solar PV and heat pump systems.

We're expanding fast, and we're looking to take on a graduate developer to work alongside the more experienced members of the team.

You will join our software team, working on the next generations of Easy PV and Heatpunk, our web tools for designing PV and heat pump systems.

As a Graduate Developer you will be given the opportunity to try your hand at all aspects of software development. Some of the areas you will work in are:

• Front end code. You will work with our designer to implement our design system, ensuring users have a clean, pleasing, easy-to-use UI
• Complex user interfaces. Much of the magic in Easy PV happens in 2D and 3D graphical editors. You'll need to get your head round complex geometry problems
• Back end code. We are in the process of migrating our back end from PHP to node.js, with some Python and Rust modules for particular tasks. Some of our back end is routine work with databases, file storage and connections to external services - some of it is a lot more bespoke and esoteric!
• Testing and infrastructure. Our customer base is rapidly expanding, with a number of ‘Enterprise' implementations of Easy PV and Heatpunk for large installers and energy companies in addition to our public sites. We have to manage ever-increasing volumes of data and ensure new features are thoroughly tested in different environments before deployment
• Problem solving. Some of what we do needs solutions to complex mathematical and logical problems - you'll need to be a great problem solver

We are a fast-growing company selling a range of renewable energy products to trade customers from our offices across the UK.

We sell solar PV systems, battery storage, electric vehicle chargers, heat pumps and a variety of associated products. We were recognised as the UK's best renewables distributor in 2020 and 2022, and Easy PV came out top (by a large margin!) in a Linked In poll for the most popular PV design software in the UK.

As an organisation, we have a strong environmental ethos and a passion for promoting the uptake of renewable energy, and our team share a belief in an open and honest approach to business.

You're naturally talented at coding, thoughtful, and creative, and you want a career that will make a difference. You'd like to put your skills to use to make the planet greener as well as earn your keep.

You've got a passion for good code and would love to spend your days building software that is intuitive and enjoyable to use.

The main characteristic we are looking for is excellent problem solving. Software development is evolving…