Description

The Position

Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 75 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expect–improving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are B Corp certified,  enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.

What you get to do:

You would be joining one of Uplight’s Orchestrated Energy engineering pods - a cross-functional team charged with building and maintaining software that helps utilities with Energy Demand Management. Uplight’s Orchestrated Energy software enables utilities to reduce peaks of high usage by shifting load to other times of the day, in the process of saving energy and preventing strain on the entire energy grid. 

An engineer on our pod thrives in an environment where requirements can change quickly and context switching is common. They understand the common trade-offs in software development and understand how to pitch and prioritize work that moves the product in a positive direction. They are an exceptional communicator inside and outside of the engineering organization.

Skills and experience are necessary, but we hire on value alignment first, so if you feel you would be a good fit with us, still consider applying.

What you will contribute:

• Work as a Senior Engineer on one of our Orchestrated Energy teams, primarily developing in Python and leveraging a wide range of technologies, notably: AWS and GCP, Docker, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and PostgreSQL
• Take problems from inception all the way to completion - own the building, testing, deployment, and maintenance of the code that you work on
• Tackle complex problems that span a wide range of technical abilities, including:
  • Integrating with 3rd-party device APIs (i.e. Nest, Ecobee)
  • Developing data pipelines to transform and process data between systems
  • Building complex event state management systems to track the many interactions that take place in our distributed architecture
  • Scaling our software to handle the ever-growing demand of new enrollees to the program
• Work effectively on an Agile team and collaborate well with your other team members.

What you bring to Uplight:

• Training - either a BS/MS in Computer Science (or related field), graduation from a code boot camp, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience developing in a modern programming language (Python preferred)
• A value for testing and developing quality software
• Strong critical thinking skills and a desire to work with ambiguous challenges
• Experience working in an Agile environment and a strong understanding of the full SDLC
• Strong troubleshooting skills that span the full-stack (front-end clients, APIs, networking, DNS, Linux, containers, databases, distributed systems, etc.)
• Experience deploying production applications on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Bonus Points:

• Experience writing and maintaining data pipelines and ETLs leveraging Spark
• Experience working cross-functionally with design, product, customer success, sales, etc.

What makes working at Uplight amazing:

In addition to all the standard medical and dental benefits, that kick in Day 1, we:

• Are proud to be over 300+ rebels with an important cause by helping to create a more sustainable planet
• Are committed to the environment, our employees, and our communities
• Are focused on career growth by following defined career ladders
• Take our work and mission seriously and….we love to laugh!

We also:

• Provide a 401k Match
• Have an innovative flexible time-off policy
• Keep you energized with plenty of food and drink

Uplight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.