Renew Home is hiring a Staff Engineer, Backend to build and maintain the core services that enable energy partners to communicate with and operate our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform. In this role, you'll lead software projects and system design, and rearchitect systems to support significant user growth.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain highly-available backend services allowing energy partners to seamlessly communicate with and operate our VPP platform.
- Develop and support the software operating our virtual power plants.
- Execute software projects with a high degree of independence over the course of multiple weeks.
- Lead small groups of other engineers to deliver on objectives.
- Lead the design of systems and features, including interfaces with other teams and external entities.
- Rearchitect and optimize existing systems to support 5x to 10x user growth.
- Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, product management, business development, operations, and marketing to ensure that their needs are consistently met.
- Work closely with development teams to integrate cloud services into the broader system architecture.
- Participate in our agile development process, including standups, 1-on-1’s, and peer code reviews.
- Serve as a mentor to team members through design and code review, delegation, and coaching.
- Drive a strong engineering culture.
What We're Looking For
- 7-10+ years of industry experience building backend software services.
- Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.
- Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL databases like MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, or Redshift.
- Strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.
- Experience leading the design of complex software systems.
- Strong leadership skills and proven ability to build and ship features independently.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail; ability to work collaboratively to resolve ambiguity and formulate clear problem statements at the system level.
Nice to Have
- Experience with scalable distributed data processing.
- Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions or GCP pub/sub.
- Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Experience in the electric power industry.
Technical Stack
- Languages & Frameworks: Python, FastAPI
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Prefect, Redis
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or GCP equivalents), Ubuntu, Apache
- Tools: Git, Jira
Team & Environment
You will work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, product management, business development, operations, and marketing.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $170k - $220k
- Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
- Real and lived work-life balance with no pre-set vacation limits, 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.
- Opportunity to work with passionate people in a fully-remote environment.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position for candidates located in the US.
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.
