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The apartment building is transforming from passive real estate into an active part of the decentralised energy infrastructure.\nWhat's missing is an integrated system that makes this transition economically viable and operationally manageable.\nVREY 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:\nDouble-digit returns and asset appreciation for owners,\n\n~20% electricity cost savings for tenants, and\n\ndigital infrastructure for storage, heat pumps, and flexibility.\n\nWe 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.\nWe're at the beginning of a structural market shift. Join us and help build the leading EnergyOS.\nYour Profile\nYou have 2+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications, ideally with Ruby on Rails. 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You will enjoy working in our office in Friedrichshain with the team most of the time, with the flexibility of 1-2 remote work days a week.\n\nYou are willing to learn energy industry terms in English and German and being comfortable with some parts of the company operating mostly in German. (Team language is English.)\n\nYour Responsibilities\nYou'll be an early member of our growing product development team, working across the entire stack. Currently that's a straight-forward Ruby on Rails app + PostgreSQL + Hotwire on Heroku which we will specialize and optimize as we're scaling.\nThe core functionality of the VREY platform is processing smart meter measurement data for analyzing and billing solar power usage. For this purpose, we provide landlords and tenants with a portal and automate contract management, invoicing and payment flows. An admin interface and integration with internal tools enable the creation and management of projects by our operations team.\nYou focus on the users' perspectives, get involved in interface design discussions and actively shape both the product and the team.\n1. Full-stack feature development and UI quality\nYou co-design and build features across the full stack, from database to UI.\n\nYou work directly with product management, design and users to get the details right.\n\nYou help raise the bar on frontend quality by improving code structure and contributing to consistent design patterns that scale across the product.\n\n2. 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