Front End Engineer

You will build UIs and client-side web applications to help our team of energy market experts manage complex distributed resources in wholesale energy markets. At the same time, you will build apps to make our customers’ lives easier while they get paid for using less energy.

You have experience with modern web development frameworks (especially React) and are comfortable working on the API layer when you need to. You have the product chops to create beautiful customer-facing tools or functional internal tools, and have the judgment to know which to build when. You know how to write next-generation frontend code that can still support legacy browsers. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.

What you will do

• Contribute to our ever growing frontend ecosystem by building shared tooling and developing process and best practices
• Create reusable frontend components for our budding design system
• Work on the application and API layers for customer-facing and internal tools to process and understand our ever-growing pile of electricity demand data and market intelligence
• Implement and follow engineering best practices, including testing and continuous integration

What is important to us

• Self initiated and curious, someone who is always looking for ways to improve our applications and infrastructure.
• Can work independently and thoughtfully allocate time among projects
• Communicates well with others, especially important in a remote team
• Interested in building positive and welcoming engineering culture 
• Cares about the environmental impact of reduced energy use
• Interested in learning more about the energy industry
• Familiarity with React/Redux, HTML/CSS, ES2015+
• Familiarity with some testing frameworks
• Experience working in agile, team environment

What is not important to us

• Having a CS or engineering degree
• Having lots of github contributions

Some technologies we use in our stack

• Python, Javascript, Go, Rust
• Postgres, Redis, S3, Kafka, InfluxDB
• AWS, Docker, Nomad, Terraform
• React, Flask, Scrapy