Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

over 2 years ago
Full time role
Philadelphia, PA, US... more
Philadelphia, PA, US... more

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Inspire is a clean energy technology company on a mission to transform the way people access clean energy and accelerate ...

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Job Description

ABOUT US

Inspire is a clean energy technology company on a mission to transform the way consumers access clean energy and to accelerate the world’s transition to a net-zero carbon future.

We provide our customers with access to renewable energy from wind, solar, and hydro powered sources without service interruptions or costly installations at a flat, predictable monthly rate. For every year that a customer spends with Inspire Clean Energy, they have a greater impact on climate change than 10 years of strict recycling.

Our rapidly growing team of mission-driven, climate enthusiasts is passionate, innovative and committed to a better future for the planet.

POSITION SUMMARY

Inspire’s Technology organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for working in our core systems, integrating with third party APIs, and supporting some of our most important internal tools. You will join a dynamic team building technology and contribute alongside them, working in a collaborative and supportive environment. You’ll rely on your experience to make our technology better.

THE SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER HAS 4 MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Be an integral contributor within a product-design-engineering “squad”. Write code, write tests, ship code to production multiple times per week.
  • Own your features, from inception to completion. Participate in grooming sessions, QA process, and post-deploy monitoring.
  • Write and maintain comprehensive documentation of solutions including flowcharts and code comments.
  • Advocate for best-practices within the team and mentor more junior engineers through code reviews and coaching

SOME YEAR 1 DELIVERABLES

  • Internal Tools / Internal APIs
    • Work with a team to create new internal tools and modify existing ones to run and scale our business.
    • Maintain the applications, fixing bugs and improving interfaces, iterating quickly with stakeholders
  • Vendor API Integrations
    • Integrate with RESTful APIs for our third party vendors. Implement new integrations, and improve our existing integrations. Document internal Inspire APIs when updating
  • Tech Stack Improvements
    • Make recommendations and implement changes to how we test, lint, review, deploy code.
    • Assist in the migration of our last AngularJS app to React

SUCCESS METRICS

  • Ability to get up to speed quickly: Be actively contributing code within the first sprint, within a month you’ll start to own your first feature.
  • Learning about an application in our stack, sharpening your tech skills along the way
  • Eliminating bugs in your code and others code through a combination of automated and manual testing.

EXPERIENCE

  • Must Have
    • Experience that provides a foundational knowledge in software engineering concepts, with a focus on web technologies.
      • Some examples of topics you’d feel comfortable speaking about:
        • How and when to use modern frameworks
        • Best practice for API conventions
        • Optimal code organization
        • When to test your code and how
        • Optimal database structure
    • Experience: You should feel comfortable building web apps, APIs, databases, and other business-focused technology systems. This should take the form of multiple relevant professional experiences
    • You have a passion towards technology and interest in solving tough problems.
    • You should care about our mission of spreading renewable energy across the country.
    • Desire to provide technical mentorship to the core team. This could take many shapes but some examples include:
      • Providing actionable, helpful feedback on pull requests,
      • Running best practice presentations
      • Pair programming with others less senior (and more senior) than you
    • Understanding of best practices for retrieving data from consumer APIs
    • Experience with the following languages and frameworks:
      • Front End: ReactJS, SCSS/Bootstrap/Tailwind
      • Automated Testing: Mocha/Jest
      • Development lifecycle experience: Git and Github
      • DevOps: Experience deploying to Heroku, AWS, or similar cloud environment
  • Nice to Have
    • Proven ability to work with business-focused cross-functional teams
    • Experience building RESTful APIs using one or more of the following languages:
      • Back End: Ruby, Python, Node, or Java

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