Senior Engineer

Description 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 industry-leading 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 to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing. Role Summary Renew Home is looking for a strong backend Software Engineer to join our HVAC Ecosystem team and help drive third-party device integrations and the day-to-day experiences of our customers. In this role, you will work with product, analytics, and the engineering team to develop new features that shape how customers can interact with our product. What You Will Do Design, develop and build backend features to support a wide variety of Renew Home customer experiences and third-party device integrations to enable energy saving automation. Serve as the technical owner of critical product experience flows. Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, analytics, and product management. Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, Nx, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira. Implement API monitoring tools and proactively monitor API service performance. Participate in our development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s and peer code reviews. Requirements 4+ years of industry experience building backend software services. Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry. Experience building features for scale and performance - using scalable APIs and working with REST frameworks. Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL and no-SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, mongodb etc.). Very strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby. Ability to work through ambiguity, excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail. Bonuses: Experience with scalable distributed data processing. Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions, pub/sub, 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. Experience working with external partners. Benefits What You'll Get A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is $160k - $200k. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a target annual bonus of 10% of base salary, and participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range. Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance. Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down 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 fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day. At this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future immigration from the company, including training plans for foreign students. 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.