Staff Engineer

Uplight

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About The Position

Uplight is creating a new category of energy. We make software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses—including things like smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and even people’s behavior—to generate, shift, or save energy to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable. This creates clean energy capacity that can be used by the power grid instead of burning more fossil fuels. Our solutions accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.
How you will make an impact:
We are searching for a disciplined Staff Software Engineer with back-end interest and expertise who is passionate about changing the way millions of people use energy. You’ll work within the Product Engineering department to build and improve our platform to deliver flexible and creative solutions to our utility partners and end users. You’ll be a part of developing a robust architecture to manage massive amounts of data and leveraging it to deliver a compelling experience to users across our platforms. And you’ll work on a great team with excellent benefits.

Requirements

• You are an experienced engineer – You have 7+ years of professional experience designing and implementing scalable backend architecture
• Experience with the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, C/C++, Objective C, Python, JavaScript)
• Experience with cloud-based architectures, development, deployment, and deployment automation
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to product managers, designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
• You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
• Experience in back-end development – you can understand and build flexible and scalable backend systems to meet the emerging needs of the business
• Proven track record applying industry security best practices to application and system development
• BS in Computer Science / Engineering, or demonstrable industry experience

Nice To Haves

• Previous energy industry experience
• Experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake, ETL and data pipelines
• Experience with Enterprise IT systems and Electronic Data Interchange
• Experience with cloud infrastructure automation such as Terraform, cloudformation or similar
• Solid experience with setting up developer flow and developer experience with automation
• You work on the command line confidently and are familiar with all the goodies that the linux toolkit can provide
• You are a Git guru and revel in collaborative workflows
• You have experience in public speaking events

Responsibilities

• Be excited to work with talented, committed people in a fast-paced environment
• Be passionate about energy availability and making a difference in the world
• Love developing great software -- some of your proudest moments involve GitHub
• Be capable of prioritizing your work to adhere to a deliverable schedule and ensure successful delivery that exceeds expectations
• Have a strong eye for detail and quality of your code
• Not be afraid to dig into hard problems, and enjoy experimenting to come up with simple, elegant solutions
• Be interested in putting your ideas forward for collaboration and team work with like-minded developers and architects across the business
• You’ll work with a globally distributed set of engineering teams and help coordinate their technical work to achieve impactful results for our customers that also help serve our business in sustainable ways
• You’ll actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
• Lead high profile initiatives/projects from inception to completion. This includes working closely with PMs on definition, prioritization, and overall project execution
• Collaborate with key stakeholders – including Product Managers, Sales Engineers, Implementation Engineers, and Program/Project Managers
• Work collaboratively in an Agile/Scrum team to plan and execute at high velocity, and across teams throughout the organization to reuse existing components and architect shared functionality
• Excels in DevOps, engineers and automates CI/CD pipelines for seamless, independent deployments, advises in refactoring design to improve performance and deployment efficiency, drives devops best practices transforming manual processes into automated workflows

Benefits

• We offer comprehensive benefits, including flexible time off, generous parental leave, a wellness stipend, and work flexibility to help you thrive both personally and professionally.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees