Are you ready to join a software team whose work is revolutionizing the way consumers interact with and use energy? If you love solving problems, working on cloud infrastructure and building highly scalable, distributed systems, then Tendril might be the place for you.

Tendril’s Sustaining Engineering team is responsible for providing support and delivering system improvements to a modern, cloud-based microservices platform that powers our energy efficiency products and services. The software applications that run on that platform provide energy efficiency insights to consumers and energy providers, processing millions of records of data every day.

As a member of the Sustaining Engineering team, you will be supporting and building software on our modern, cloud-based technology stack. You’re a motivated, skilled contributor who is versatile and adaptable, and isn’t afraid to dive into unfamiliar code or systems in order to squash a bug. You’re familiar with AWS and love to troubleshoot, write high-quality testable code, and practice the craft of software development.

What You’ll Do

• Work as an integral member of our Sustaining Engineering team.
• Collaborate with other software engineers to solve technical challenges.
• Provide support for several existing applications, investigating and fixing issues when they arise.
• Contribute to system improvements to enhance stability, reliability and scalability of our software platform.

What You Bring to Tendril

• Training - either a BS/MS in Computer Science (or related field), graduation from a code bootcamp, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 5 years professional experience.
• A pragmatic approach to building software and a desire to be a polyglot.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting existing applications in a production SaaS environment.
• Solid experience with scaling high availability systems and heavy Web traffic.
• Experience with deploying software to production using modern CI/CD tools.
• A value for testing and developing quality software.
• Versatility - you’re comfortable working on a variety of systems in a variety of languages and technologies.

Technologies We Use

• Cloud Environment

• • AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambdas)
  • Docker
  • Microservices
  • AWS ECS, Fargate
  • Jenkins

• Programming languages

• • Java
  • Scala
  • Python
  • JavaScript / Node
  • Ruby

• Data stack

• • Postgresql
  • Spark
  • Airflow
  • Redshift
  • Looker
  • Spectrum / Athena

• Important libraries

• • React
  • Express
  • Flask
  • PySpark

 Bonus Points

• Experience working in an AWS environment
• Experience working on a microservices architecture
• SRE, DevOps or CI/CD experience
• Experience with a variety of languages, frameworks and technologies

If this sounds like you, let’s talk.

What Makes Working at Tendril Awesome

Tendril’s high energy, sometimes silly, fast-paced work environment will keep you engaged, motivated, and well fed. Work-life balance is a core priority at Tendril. We work hard and we play hard and often the two overlap.  We love our dogs and bring them to work with us. We host family events and adult parties. We contribute to the community, we volunteer, and we mentor. Plus, we offer a ton of great benefits, including:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance with a generous employer contribution;
• An innovative and flexible paid time off policy;
• A 401(k) plan with generous matching;
• A kitchen stocked with breakfast and lunch food, coffee, sodas, snacks, and adult beverages;
• An open office environment where ideas flow among marketers and developers, product managers and support reps, who sit shoulder-to-shoulder collaborating and challenging and encouraging each other.