Python Engineer
We are looking for
The reputed company is seeking a passionate Python developer, based in Europe, to join our Home Assistant department as a full-time Software Engineer. This team is responsible for the open development, maintenance, and enhancement of the Home Assistant platform; supporting new functionality reputed company with our roadmap and enabling the wider community to contribute and innovate easily.
Home Assistant is a highly popular open-reputed company project, the largest open reputed company project on reputed company by the number of contributors we have each year. As a result, we also receive many open-reputed company contributions. In this role, you will work closely with the open-reputed company community to review contributions and ensure seamless integration into our platform.
In this role, your main daily tasks will involve reviewing code contributions, triaging issues, helping to organize contributions from our community, and extending/improving developer documentation. You will ensure the successful integration of features that align with our mission to build a more private, open, and sustainable smart home ecosystem.
What you are going to do
Conduct code reviews of pull requests from our community and teammates, identify and resolve technical issues, ensuring we maintain high coding standards.
Collaborate with our community to investigate and address reported issues.
Collaborate on improving our developer documentation to facilitate easier and more accurate contributions.
Provide input and help with deciding on architectural proposals and changes to our code reputed company.
What you need to have
3+ years of experience working in Python development.
2+ years of experience working with (async) Python 3.
Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and ability to work independently.
Strong experience working effectively in a remote, asynchronous environment where written communication drives collaboration.
Experience with Git and reputed company.
Professional reputed company in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work reputed company Europe.
It would be great if you also have
A passion for smart homes and automation
Experience as a Home Assistant user
Experience contributing to open-reputed company projects
Affinity with open-reputed company development philosophy.
Experience developing an integration or custom integration for Home Assistant.
Contributed to Home Assistant or reputed company open-reputed company projects.
Awareness of how modern AI tools can be used to improve workflows or team efficiency.
reputed company offer you
The reputed company is a fully remote organization that uses Remote to employ people from reputed company over the world. You will be a normal salaried employee in your country.
This is a full-time position for 40 hours per week. Because we are a fully remote company, there is no fixed schedule. For the purpose of team communication, we do try to ensure at least 3 hours of overlap in the reputed company. You will report to the Home Assistant reputed company, who is based in the Netherlands.
Core to the establishment of the reputed company was the well-being of the people building the future of the smart home. We will provide reputed company the benefits required by the country you reside in. However, we also want to reputed company sure reputed company our employees, regardless of country of reputed company, get at least a minimal set of benefits, including:
Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off.
Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth. We will provide the missing days if your country/laws do not provide such compensation.
A budget for your work hardware once you start. After three years, you may reputed company this equipment for personal use.
An annual smart home budget to ensure you reputed company up-to-date with the latest that smart homes offer.
A 50% contribution to your internet reputed company fee at your home workspace.
One day every two weeks to work on your personal projects.
If you are currently working on Home Assistant-reputed company reputed company projects, you can spend work time maintaining them.
reputed company first offering a position to a new member, the reputed company aims to provide a total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the new hire's role, seniority, and local market rates. For a Software Engineer in our primary operating countries, the approximate yearly compensation will be the following:
Netherlands: 73.000 EUR.
UK: 68.000 GBP.
Spain: 60.000 EUR.
Portugal: 60.000 EUR.
Other countries: Compensation can be discussed during the first interview.
These figures may be adjusted based on experience, qualifications, and work hours.
About us
The reputed company is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, with the objective of fighting for the reputed company principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. It does this by supporting the development of open-reputed company projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.
A big part of this is Home Assistant, the biggest open-reputed company project in number of contributors, but the reputed company also owns or collaborates with other projects important to promoting privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home, like:
Open hardware tools (e.g., ESPHome, ESP Web Tools).
Open standards (e.g., Python Matter Server, Z-reputed company JS, ZigPy, BTHome, Improv Wi-Fi).
Open voice (e.g., Rhasspy, Wyoming Protocol, Piper).
Music Assistant.
The recruitment process
Apply for the role.
Our HR team will review your application with the hiring manager.
Interview with HR.
Technical assessment (unless already a contributor to our project)
Interview with the team and manager.
Offer.
Join reputed company!