Mobile App Architect

The Company

Founded by Tesla’s former head of energy products, Span created a smartphone-enabled electric panel. It is beautiful to look at, it is built to last, it has onboard intelligence and it can interact with every single circuit in your home, which includes your electric car, solar panels and home battery. We think Span can fundamentally upgrade our homes, improve our lives and help us bridge to a clean energy future. Read the story behind Span to learn more.

The Role

As our Mobile App Architect, you will be responsible for the technical architecture of Span’s mobile-native, cross-platform apps - Span Home and Span Installer. You will responsible for the setting the technical direction of the app from top to bottom, animations to API interactions.

Span Home is the app homeowners use to interact and control their panel. It is meant to offer not just transactional value, but also to educate, engage, inspire and ultimately drive positive behaviors across the household. Watch this video to understand how we’re manifesting the vision - SPAN reinvented the hundred year old electric panel. The SPAN app brings it to life.  

Span Installer is the app install technicians use to commission and set up the Span panel. We want to put a panel in every home and for that, we need the installation experience to be simple, quick, reliable and require as little training as possible. Span Installer is a key enabler of that outcome

Responsibilities

• Design architectural and process patterns to help Span move quickly and efficiently in building new features.
• Understand our mobile apps from top to bottom able to debug issues and brainstorms solutions with product, design and support.
• Bring a depth of mobile experience to help Span avoid pitfalls and provide the best mobile experience to our end users.
• Implement new features within the apps.
• Lead project groups with engineers from multiple disciplines from design through delivery and testing.
• Communicate complex technical topics and trade offs to those very familiar with and not at all familiar with mobile apps.

About You

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about the climate crisis problems we are solving and is looking to engage with a diverse team of problem solvers to do so.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience developing mobile apps.
• Have built apps for both Android and iOS.
• Demonstrated experience shipping multiple different consumer facing apps that successfully delivered value to customers and the business.
• Experience on the full mobile stack including animations, UI/UX, layout, state management, navigation, api interactions etc.
• Collaborating with other engineers in a shared code base using industry-standard tools and processes like source control, unit testing, linting.
• An interest in working with React Native as the framework.

Bonuses

Any of these would be bonuses:

• Have worked with React Native or other Javascript based App development frameworks.
• Experience working with IoT products and technologies (e.g. Bluetooth).
• Experience building apps on top of GraphQL APIs.

Life at Span

Why Span?

Span offers a unique opportunity at a startup based in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We are a small, diverse team of creative thinkers. We value open communication, teamwork, and a make-it-happen attitude - no job is too big or too small. We strive to make change by imagining what the future could be and building a product to complete that vision. We are looking to grow our team with talented people who are on the same mission to shape the future of energy.

Working at Span, you can expect:

• Competitive compensation and early equity at a well-funded, fast-growing, venture-backed company (read more on why Amazon and others invested in Span here and here)
• A sunny 20,000 sq ft hardware lab + office space in SOMA, a stone’s throw from Caltrain and close to BART
• Flexible hours and vacation time - we simultaneously work hard and make space for the important stuff
• Additional Span holidays in celebration of causes we believe in (this year so far we provided days off in celebration of Black History in Feb, Women’s History in March, Earth Day in April and Gay Pride & Juneteenth in June) 
• Comprehensive benefits including a choice of medical plans; dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• Diversity - we are serious about this. Span embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.