Job Description
Hachiko Technologies Pty Ltd – Sydney CBD NSW
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Hachiko builds software that optimises, controls, and operates real energy storage assets. Our platform deals with the complexity of energy markets, forecasting, real-time control, and distributed backend systems, where correctness, reliability, and explainability actually matter.
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We're looking for a motivated software engineer who wants to develop some serious chops. You'll join a small, highly experienced team and get hands‐on exposure to production systems with real economic and physical consequences. This is a rare opportunity to learn fast in an environment that values clarity, ownership, and craft — not bureaucracy.
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What you'll do
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You'll contribute across the platform, working on a mix of product-facing and internal systems work. Day-to-day, this includes:
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Building and improving our web portal interface — the primary touchpoint for customers managing their energy assets
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Developing and maintaining our JSON API interface, ensuring it's well‐documented, reliable, and easy to integrate against
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Carrying out maintenance and improvement work across platform services in Python and Go
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Building API integrations with third‐party systems (energy platforms, hardware providers, market interfaces)
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Writing clean, tested code and participating in code reviews
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Gradually taking on more complex tasks in domain‐critical areas (markets, control, telemetry) as you build context and confidence
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What we're looking for
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2+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent depth from personal projects, open‐source, or a strong academic background)
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Solid fundamentals in at least two backend languages — Python, Go, or TypeScript
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Basic understanding of front‐end technologies and how they interact with backend systems
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Comfort working with web APIs: designing them, consuming them, debugging them
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Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines,



and working in collaborative codebases
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A genuine desire to learn — about distributed systems, energy markets, and building software that has to work in the real world
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A robust sense of ownership and accountability; ability to deliver a piece of work from ideation to completion
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Enough self‐awareness to ask good questions, flag when you're stuck, and learn from feedback without taking it personally
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Nice to have
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Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS
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Exposure to event‐driven architectures or message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
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Familiarity with time‐series databases (TimescaleDB)
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Familiarity with
monitoring/observability
tooling (Grafana, Prometheus)
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Interest in or exposure to energy systems, IoT, or hardware integrations
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Thoughtful use of AI‐assisted development tools, with a strong sense of ownership over code quality
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Experience with Docker, containerised development, or infrastructure‐as‐code
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What you won't be expected to do (yet)
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This role is about building a strong foundation. You won't be thrown into the deep end without support. Specifically:
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You won't be expected to make major architectural decisions alone, but you will be included in those discussions so you can learn how they're made
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You won't own production incidents solo, but you'll participate in post‐incident reviews and learn how we think about failure and recovery
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You won't need prior energy market knowledge, but you'll be expected to build it quickly — and we'll help
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What success looks like (6–12 months)
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You're independently delivering well‐scoped features across the web portal and API with minimal hand‐holding
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Your code is clean, tested, and reviewed without requiring major rework
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You've built enough domain context to ask sharp questions and spot issues that less engaged engineers would miss
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Senior engineers trust you with increasingly complex work because you've earned it through consistent quality and good judgment
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You've started forming your own views on how systems should be designed, and you contribute meaningfully to technical discussions
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Ways of working
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Approximately *****% hands‐on coding
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Approximately *****% learning, review, and collaboration
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No direct reports
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Close collaboration with senior engineers, data scientists, and the broader platform team
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Mostly remote work with semi‐frequent in‐person workshops and interactions (Sydney/Newcastle)
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Why Hachiko?
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We're one of the fastest‐growing energy software businesses in the country, having become a force to be reckoned with from humble beginnings in January ****. We don't faff around, focusing on what matters and ruthlessly discarding what doesn't.
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At Hachiko, you'll find:
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A high‐trust, high‐autonomy environment with clear standards
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A senior engineering team that genuinely invests in helping you grow
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Real problems with real consequences — your work directly affects energy assets, financial outcomes, and the energy transition
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A culture that's allergic to brilliant‐but‐toxic behaviour — we look for people who combine strong technical instincts with humility and respect for others
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Culture
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At Hachiko, our culture exists to help us make good decisions when the work is complex, the stakes are high, and the right answer is not obvious.
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We value Trust, Humility, Decisive Ownership, Empathetic Honesty, Excellence through Collaboration, and Adaptation with Intention.
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📌 Software Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Hachiko Technologies
📍 New South Wales