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findhelp | Software Engineers (mid/senior), Product Owner/Manager | Full-time | Austin, Denver, or REMOTE (US)

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We do this by ensuring privacy of those looking for support and strive to serve them with dignity and ease. We are growing to ensure we can reach people where they are and empower those already serving them (particularly care navigators, social workers, and individuals directly) with the most accurate and robust catalog of free and reduced cost programs to connect with and follow-up easily.

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findhelp | Software Engineers (mid/senior), VP of Engineering, Product Owner/Manager, UX Designer | Full-time | Austin, Denver, or REMOTE (US)

Findhelp is a search engine and platform to connect those in need with the nonprofits, government programs, community organizations and whoever offers a helping hand.

We do this by ensuring privacy of those looking for support and strive to serve them with dignity and ease. We are growing to ensure we can reach people where they are and empower those already serving them (particularly care navigators, social workers, and individuals directly) with the most accurate and robust catalog of free and reduced cost programs to connect with and follow-up easily.

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Glad it doesn't go unnoticed, actually was the team lead for that project (Mobility House -- real time battery control). If you have any questions about it or other cool projects we have done -- https://www.mobilityhouse.com/int_en/magazine/press-releases... actually works with the batteries to do the same thing.

So we can use them in the car to charge when there is excess renewables, and then use the second-life batteries in large stationary storage installations to do the same. Tying into the different grid systems is a bit of a nightmare with everyone having their own standards unfortunately, otherwise it would be easier to roll these out more often.

(I am speaking for myself, not Mobility House).


Hey there,

I am the tech team lead at Mobility House (the company behind taking the batteries and doing the real time control in that setup) for that particular project. https://www.mobilityhouse.com/int_en/magazine/press-releases...

It's actually a really cool setup that allows us to take in excess solar (that isn't used onsite) to charge the batteries, the batteries actually act as backup power for the event days (that AFC Ajax plays). When not needed they provide frequency containment (grid stabilization to prevent brownouts+blackouts) for the European electrical grid at large (on days where it is financially viable to do so).

If you have any questions I would be more than happy to discuss more :)


How often does it happen that this is financially viable? The way the European electricity market is set up is quite interesting, so I wonder how the ArenA-system ties in.

Also, is the system also charging up when there's negative electricity prices like there were recently? And get payed to take in power?


The Mobility House | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE | Austin, TX

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets.

We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (~30MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of near real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info


The Mobility House | Software Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE | Austin, TX

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets.

We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (~30MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of near real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info


Always one of the good articles to link to when creating a Python repo from scratch.

Should mention that __init__.py is not needed for python 3.3+ anymore (just found that out this week myself to my surprise) so for projects where backwards compatibility is not required you can stop creating extra blank files if you don't need them.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37139786/is-init-py-not-...


Although, beware that you may need to change `find_packages()` to `find_namespace_packages()` in your setup.py.

I get burned by that one a lot!


That's really not recommended. A lot of behaviors are subtly affected by failing to have init files.


Like what?


Not op but I have personally noticed that doing a ‘python setup.py install’ doesn’t correctly import modules unless you have an __init__.py file. It’s possible I could be doing something wrong however.


Mypy sometimes uses init files to understand internal imports.


The Mobility House | Software Engineer (all levels) | Full-time | ONSITE | Austin, TX

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets.

We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (25MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of near real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info


The Mobility House | Software Engineer (all levels) | Onsite | Austin, TX

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets. We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (25MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info


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