Offer summary

Qualifications:

7-10+ years of experience in backend software development., Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience., Strong proficiency in Python and experience with scalable API architecture., Excellent SQL skills and experience with relational and NoSQL databases..

Key responsibilities:

Design and develop backend features for customer experiences and device integrations.

Architect scalable systems to handle large user bases.

Provide technical guidance and support to engineering team members.

Participate in development processes including code reviews and team meetings.

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industryleading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com to learn more about the worldchanging work we are doing.

Role Summary

Renew Home is looking for a strong backend Software Engineer to join our Consumer Experience team and help drive the daytoday experiences of our customers. In this role, you will work with product, analytics, partnerships, external partners, and the engineering team to develop new product features and new device integrations.

What You Will Do

Design, develop and build backend features to support a wide variety of Renew Home customer experiences and thirdparty device integrations to enable energy saving automation.

Architect systems to handle users at scale.

Serve as the technical owner of critical product experience flows.

Provide technical guidance to others in order to maintain a high quality bar, unblock junior engineers, and support correct prioritization of work.

Work with crossfunctional teams consisting of engineering, product management, and partnerships.

Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, Nx, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWSGCP (CDK, ECSEKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.

Implement API monitoring tools and proactively monitor API service performance.

Independently handle the task breakdown and prioritization required to resolve an issue.

Participate in our development process regular team updates, standup meetings, 1on1’s and peer code reviews.

Requirements

710+ years of industry experience building backend software services.

BachelorsMasters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.

Experience architecting systems for scale and performance building and maintaining scalable APIs and working with REST frameworks.

Experience building robust technical integrations with external partners:

Navigating partnerships and alignment from the engineering side.

Gracefully handling technical issues with 3P integrations to minimize customer impact.

Coordinating with external engineering teams.

Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL and noSQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, mongodb etc.).

Very strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.

Strong leadership and communication skills the ability to take ownership of the entire development process.

Ability to work through ambiguity, excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.

Bonuses:

Experience with scalable distributed data processing.

Experience with AWS LambdaCloud functions, pubsub, Prefect tools.

Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.

Experience in the electric power industry.

Benefits
What Youll Get

A fulltime position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $170k $220k.

Fully remote work environment with home office setup allowance.

Real and lived worklife balance Company perks include no preset vacation limits (with a topdown culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.

Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.

401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.

Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fullyremote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

Not eligible for visa sponsorship.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.