Junior Hub Developer

Were looking for someone to help grow Embers network of charging hubs. Youll work alongside our existing developers to find sites take them through legals and planning manage the build and energise them. How you work and think matters more to us than which industry youve worked in. You think clearly can run several projects at once and are as at home on a site as behind a desk.

About Ember

Were building the future of public transport convenient affordable connected and zero-emission. Our goal is to make it easier and more enjoyable to get from A to B with Ember than it is with your own car.

Ember is a tech company not a traditional bus operator. Weve built a platform that coordinates our entire operation everything from monitoring vehicles and controlling chargers to selling tickets and calculating ETAs. This allows us to use electric buses more intensively than anyone else in the world leading to a massive reduction in emissions. It also helps us provide a much better passenger experience with innovative features like demand-responsive stops.

Were still tiny with a handful of routes and 100 buses. The challenge is to scale this 50x whilst staying lean increasing efficiency and delivering an even better product experience. Weve recently raised a Series A from some of Europes leading climate VCs and are looking for mission-driven individuals who want to get on board and help take us to the next level.

The role

Charging hubs are Embers key growth enabler. They give us the ultra-fast charge points we need to run our network and they act as a base for our fleet parking washing driver lounges and more. We have hubs across Scotland today with additional sites across the UK under construction or in the pipeline.

Youll join a small team of four. Youll start out supporting the team on their live sites but well be looking for you to be running your own sites end-to-end as quickly as possible. Were typically running a handful of projects at any one time.

Step one is finding a site. Youll need to think about where we need charging capacity to support future routes scout industrial estates and brownfield plots and reach out to commercial agents local authorities and landlords. Some great sites are advertised but many are not so landing one usually means being patient and creative.

Once youve got a site we move on to lease negotiations design the planning application and the power connection. Youll work with network operators to land the grid connection and with our suppliers to procure install and commission the charging equipment. Solicitors architects and engineers are there to help but the project is yours to drive you set the direction you ask the difficult questions and you make the trade-offs.

Its important to be hands-on. We dont go to tender and leave the rest to an outsourced project manager we want you on site asking why a kerb is in the wrong place. Even after a site is live our involvement doesnt stop. The team keeps refining and improving every site and youll be part of that work across the network not just on the sites youve built yourself.

Diversity and equality

At Ember we support diversity across our team and customers. We work to ensure every employee feels respected and able to give their best whether temporary part-time or full-time. Were happy to offer flexible working patterns where they make sense are compassionate when it comes to time off and offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave.

Read more about our approach in our Equal Opportunities Policy.

Whats on offer

Youll receive a salary of per annum depending on your experience and skills plus share options. Youll be expected to work from our lovely office in central Edinburgh most days we value in-person communication but theres flexibility around the odd day from home with an expectation that youll spend some time travelling to different sites.

How do I apply

Send your CV and a short note on why this interests you.

Applications close Friday 2 October at 5pm.

Who were looking for

You should have a desire to get involved in the growth of a quickly scaling business with a real opportunity to make your mark. How you work and think matters more to us than specific industry experience. The following should sound a lot like you:

• Curious and quick to learn. Youre comfortable in unfamiliar territory new technical specs new legal terms new planning processes and you treat each one as an opportunity to learn. You dont expect to know everything on day one.

• Engineering mindset. Youre the sort of person wholl happily watch YouTube videos explaining concrete reinforcement three-phase distribution or substation transformers. Youll be excited to dive into the same level of detail on our projects.

• A first-principles thinker. You take problems back to fundamentals rather than reaching for jargon or the way things are usually done. When you work with experts solicitors architects engineers you treat them as people you can learn from not people you can outsource your thinking to.

• Highly organised. Managing a pipeline of projects is complex with many timelines people to chase details to look into and things that can (and will) go wrong. We want you at Inbox Zero not in inbox hell.

• Comfortable using AI. At a minimum you use it as part of how you work to learn faster draft documents and get to the bottom of unfamiliar topics. But maybe youll go further and build software to help the team work faster and more precisely.

• Hands-on. Hubs are built in the real world not behind a screen. Youll meet landlords talk to electricians and look at drains but youll also need to read contracts and chase agents whove gone quiet.

• A strong sense of what good looks like. Whatever the topic problem or issue. You need to know how to hold yourself and others to a high standard.