Solar Monkey
Delft
At Solar Monkey, the goal is to enable solar to be the world’s leading power supply, and they accomplish that with software that makes solar power systems more affordable, secure and reliable. This is done in a very open and warm environment, where everybody can have his or her say on company values, structure, and policies.
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About Solar Monkey
The main product that Solar Monkey has is their design software, where users can quickly design all kinds of solar panel systems, and get a highly accurate yield calculation. Solar Monkey based their predictions on climate data, system specifications and advanced shadow analysis. Their application is an advanced piece of software, that extracts information from GIS data, runs distributed over a dozen of servers and uses the latest HTML5 canvas to facilitate easy Geospatial editing tools for the end user.
How does Solar Monkey work?
Solar Monkey combines in-person and online communication (through Basecamp & Zoom) – where it might not surprise you that the business side leans toward the former and the development team leans a bit toward the latter form of communication. This enables a very flexible working place. Nobody tells you where or when to work, trusting that you know best how to build on your own strengths.
They don’t uphold a very strict methodology for design, but do evaluate and improve their process continuously. It’s probably best described as a combination of Kanban and Scrum. This means that we are quite agile and can implement new features quickly when necessary. The work is divided in clear epics and stories, and are tracked in PivotalTracker.
Working at Solar Monkey
Solar Monkey currently consists of 13 full-timers, of which 5 are developers, and they always have a couple of awesome interns. They have the intention and capital to more than double that in a year, so that is where you come in!
Where is Solar Monkey located?
The office of Solar Monkey is located in Delft.