Who We AreRenew 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 <a href="http://www.renewhome.com">www.renewhome.com</a>  to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.What You Will Do<ul> <li>Build and maintain highly-available backend services allowing energy partners to seamlessly communicate with and operate our VPP platform.</li> <li>Develop and support the software operating our virtual power plants. </li> <li>Execute software projects with a high degree of independence over the course of multiple weeks.</li> <li>Lead small groups of other engineers to deliver on objectives.</li> <li>Lead the design of systems and features, including interfaces with other teams and external entities.</li> <li>Rearchitect and optimize existing systems to support 5x to 10x user growth.</li> <li>Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, product management, business development, operations, and marketing to ensure that their needs are consistently met and that gaps and risks are escalated appropriately.</li> <li>Work closely with development teams to integrate cloud services into the broader system architecture.</li> <li>Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Prefect, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.</li> <li>Participate in our agile development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s, and peer code reviews.</li> <li>Serve as a mentor to team members through design and code review, delegation, and coaching.</li> <li>Drive a strong engineering culture.</li> </ul>Requirements<ul> <li>7-10+ years of industry experience building backend software services.</li> <li>Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.</li> <li>Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, etc.).</li> <li>Strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.</li> <li>Experience leading the design of complex software systems.</li> <li>Strong leadership skills and proven ability to build and ship features independently.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail; ability to work collaboratively to resolve ambiguity and formulate clear problem statements at the system level and develop solutions that work within the constraints of the business.</li> <li>Bonuses:</li> <ul> <li>Experience with scalable distributed data processing.</li> <li>Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions, GCP pub/sub.</li> <li>Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.</li> <li>Experience in the electric power industry.</li> </ul> </ul>BenefitsWhat You'll Get<ul> <li>A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $170k - $220k.</li> <li>Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.</li> <li>401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same. </li> <li>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.</li> </ul>Not eligible for visa sponsorship.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERIndividuals 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.

Renew Home transforms everyday homes into a unified force for the clean energy transition. Leveraging existing infrastructure with scale-ready technology, we deliver an innovative solution that can be implemented immediately.

Staff Engineer, Backend - Partner VPP (Remote, US)

Who We AreRenew 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 <a href="http://www.renewhome.com">www.renewhome.com</a>&nbsp; to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.What You Will Do<ul> <li>Build and maintain highly-available backend services allowing energy partners to seamlessly communicate with and operate our VPP platform.</li> <li>Develop and support the software operating our virtual power plants.&nbsp;</li> <li>Execute software projects with a high degree of independence over the course of multiple weeks.</li> <li>Lead small groups of other engineers to deliver on objectives.</li> <li>Lead the design of systems and features, including interfaces with other teams and external entities.</li> <li>Rearchitect and optimize existing systems to support 5x to 10x user growth.</li> <li>Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, product management, business development, operations, and marketing to ensure that their needs are consistently met and that gaps and risks are escalated appropriately.</li> <li>Work closely with development teams to integrate cloud services into the broader system architecture.</li> <li>Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Prefect, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.</li> <li>Participate in our agile development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s, and peer code reviews.</li> <li>Serve as a mentor to team members through design and code review, delegation, and coaching.</li> <li>Drive a strong engineering culture.</li> </ul>Requirements<ul> <li>7-10+ years of industry experience building backend software services.</li> <li>Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.</li> <li>Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, etc.).</li> <li>Strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.</li> <li>Experience leading the design of complex software systems.</li> <li>Strong leadership skills and proven ability to build and ship features independently.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail; ability to work collaboratively to resolve ambiguity and formulate clear problem statements at the system level and develop solutions that work within the constraints of the business.</li> <li>Bonuses:</li> <ul> <li>Experience with scalable distributed data processing.</li> <li>Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions, GCP pub/sub.</li> <li>Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.</li> <li>Experience in the electric power industry.</li> </ul> </ul>BenefitsWhat You'll Get<ul> <li>A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $170k - $220k.</li> <li>Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.</li> <li>401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same. </li> <li>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.</li> </ul>Not eligible for visa sponsorship.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERIndividuals 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.

Staff Engineer, Backend - Partner VPP (Remote, US)

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