Senior Full Stack Engineer, Amber Electric
£65-100k
React
AWS
TypeScript
React Native
GraphQL
Node.js
Postgres
DynamoDB
Mid and Senior level
London
1+ day a week in office (Paddington, London)
Wholesale electricity provider
Be an early applicant
Wholesale electricity provider
101-200 employees
B2CMarketplaceEnergySustainabilitySubscriptionFlexible workingSocial ImpactProduct
Be an early applicant
£65-100k
React
AWS
TypeScript
React Native
GraphQL
Node.js
Postgres
DynamoDB
Mid and Senior level
London
1+ day a week in office (Paddington, London)
101-200 employees
B2CMarketplaceEnergySustainabilitySubscriptionFlexible workingSocial ImpactProduct
Company mission
To shift Australia towards 100% renewable energy.
Role
Who you are
- You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
- A minimum of 5 or more years of commercial software development experience in either Web or Mobile environments
- Past experience mentoring or leading software engineers
- Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement
- Experience in Typescript is required, other languages such as Python & Go are a plus
- We favour generalists who can be flexible across the stack, but are particularly interested in engineers with deep skills and experience across both frontend and backend. It would be a bonus if you have skills in CDK (or any other infra-as-code platforms) & Postgres
- Strong verbal and written communications skills in English at a proficiency of C1/C2 level at a minimum
- Additional language skills, particularly in European languages, are a bonus and may support broader team and customer engagement
What the job involves
- Amber is an entirely new way of thinking about buying, banking and selling energy – where home energy technology works to put money back in customers’ pockets and accelerate the renewable energy transition
- Everything we build is about making that possible and putting traditional retailers in the shade:1
- We believe the cheapest, fastest and most rewarding way to reach 100% renewables is to automate the growing wave of home batteries and EVs
- To do that, we build products that customers love to help them unlock the full value of their home energy usage, storage and generation, while keeping them in control
- Customers get direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price and the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price they can be paid for it is highest:2
- We are backed by Australia’s leading VCs (including Square Peg Capital and Main Sequence Ventures), impact-focused investors and individuals, and most recently by Commonwealth Bank, NRMA and Gentrack:3
- We are growing rapidly and have thousands of customers who love what we are doing and a great product that will play a significant role in driving Australia and the world towards a renewable future:4
- We’re now at a critical moment in taking the business to real scale as we disrupt a huge market for the better
- You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 150, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations
- We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world:5
- ABOUT THE ROLE::6
- We are currently hiring for a Senior Full Stack Engineer
- Amber provides a great opportunity to apply your skills as an Engineer to help enable the uptake of renewable energy
- Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in the customers' homes, enabling them to time their usage to consume power at times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting them outbid energy generators and earn potentially >£50 in an afternoon:7
- The Amber Electric product team develops and supports::8
- Home automation integrations (to batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability:9
- Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage:10
- A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing:11
- The tech stack is React Native mobile app, some React web frontends, and a Serverless Lambda backend on AWS
- We’re using Typescript top to bottom, and Apollo GraphQL sits in the middle
- We keep our data in DynamoDB, Postgres and snowflake for our data-lake using one or the other as best suits a particular workload:12
- This is a full-time role to be based ideally from the UK/Ireland/Germany but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Europe
- We are also open to working 4 days a week, if that's what you are looking for. We do have an co-working space within London, Paddington where we work flexibly between the office and home
- You can learn more about our tech stack at https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric:15
Application process
- If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!
- Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status
- HOW TO APPLY:
- Please include your resume and a cover letter and tell us:
- One specific way you could use your technical skills to improve a household's energy use under the Amber model
- Our process will generally be as follows:
- A screening interview with our talent team
- A take-home technical challenge that should take no longer than four hours
- A follow up interview with two members of the engineering team
- A technical + culture interview with two of our Engineering Managers and/or Director of Engineering
- A final chat with one of the co-founders and the CTO
- Please note - As outlined in the "How You Work" section above, our designated core collaboration hours are from 7:00 AM TO 10:00 AM (BST). Accordingly, initial screening meetings will be scheduled within this timeframe to align with our team's availability and ensure effective collaboration
- We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team
- Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in UK/Ireland and Germany, with full working rights!
- Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible
- No recruitment agencies please. We are already working with our preferred partners. Thank you!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amber Electric is a Melbourne-based energy company helping Aussies take control of their power use. Instead of just selling power like traditional retailers, Amber gives customers access to real-time wholesale electricity prices and smart tools to help them lower their bills.
It's making big moves too, having recently acquired Charge HQ, a Sydney-based EV charging app. This means that Amber customers with EVs can now charge up using more solar power and less from the grid. It's a big step, and one that shows Amber isn't just talking about a greener future, but helping to build it.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2024
$2.1m
GRANT
Apr 2024
$18.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $50.5m
Company benefits
- Sustainability: We offset 100% of your carbon footprint for as long as you work with us
- Ownership: Equity in Amber for all permanent employees
- Growth & Development: Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth
- Parental Leave: Generous and equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies
- Flexibility: Flexible hours & days, hybrid and WFH, head office in Melbourne CBD, and co-working space in Sydney
- Wellbeing: An Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support, WFH equipment budget, additional PTO
Company values
- Believes our work has meaningful impact and purpose
- Understands the customer and value we provide
- Is constantly challenged to grow & succeed
- Takes ownership and pride in their job, without being consumed by it
- Feels safe to take risks
- Can be their authentic selves at work
Company HQ
CBD, Melbourne, VIC
Leadership
Dan Adams
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously a Business Development Manager at Tesla and a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Christopher Thompson
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously a Managing Director at Bamilo and a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
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