Staff Engineer, Uplight
$160.2-173k
+ Bonus
Clean energy technology partner
Be an early applicant
Clean energy technology partner
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160.2-173k
+ Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fuel the transition to clean energy in order to build a more sustainable future.
Role
Who you are
- Be excited to work with talented, committed people in a fast-paced environment
- Be passionate about energy availability and making a difference in the world
- Love developing great software -- some of your proudest moments involve GitHub
- Be capable of prioritizing your work to adhere to a deliverable schedule and ensure successful delivery that exceeds expectations
- Have a strong eye for detail and quality of your code
- Not be afraid to dig into hard problems, and enjoy experimenting to come up with simple, elegant solutions
- Be interested in putting your ideas forward for collaboration and team work with like-minded developers and architects across the business
- You are an experienced engineer – You have 7+ years of professional experience designing and implementing scalable backend architecture
- You’ll work with a globally distributed set of engineering teams and help coordinate their technical work to achieve impactful results for our customers that also help serve our business in sustainable ways
- You’ll actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
- Lead high profile initiatives/projects from inception to completion. This includes working closely with PMs on definition, prioritization, and overall project execution
- Collaborate with key stakeholders – including Product Managers, Sales Engineers, Implementation Engineers, and Program/Project Managers
- Work collaboratively in an Agile/Scrum team to plan and execute at high velocity, and across teams throughout the organization to reuse existing components and architect shared functionality
- Experience with the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, C/C++, Objective C, Python, JavaScript)
- Experience with cloud-based architectures, development, deployment, and deployment automation
- You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to product managers, designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
- You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
- Experience in back-end development – you can understand and build flexible and scalable backend systems to meet the emerging needs of the business
- Proven track record applying industry security best practices to application and system development
- Excels in DevOps, engineers and automates CI/CD pipelines for seamless, independent deployments, advises in refactoring design to improve performance and deployment efficiency, drives devops best practices transforming manual processes into automated workflows
- BS in Computer Science / Engineering, or demonstrable industry experience
- If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways
Desirable
- Previous energy industry experience
- Experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake, ETL and data pipelines
- Experience with Enterprise IT systems and Electronic Data Interchange
- Experience with cloud infrastructure automation such as Terraform, cloudformation or similar
- Solid experience with setting up developer flow and developer experience with automation
- You work on the command line confidently and are familiar with all the goodies that the linux toolkit can provide
- You are a Git guru and revel in collaborative workflows
- You have experience in public speaking events
What the job involves
- We are searching for a disciplined Staff Software Engineer with back-end interest and expertise who is passionate about changing the way millions of people use energy
- You’ll work within the Product Engineering department to build and improve our platform to deliver flexible and creative solutions to our utility partners and end users
- You’ll be a part of developing a robust architecture to manage massive amounts of data and leveraging it to deliver a compelling experience to users across our platforms
- And you’ll work on a great team with excellent benefits
Application process
- Application Deadline: May 15, 2026
Our take
Uplight provides end-to-end technology solutions that aim to increase efficiency within energy ecosystems. The company's tech solutions consist of energy personalization systems to motivate customers to use energy more efficiently, in addition to energy reports, marketplaces, and other API microservices. They're currently working with more than 80 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities.
Uplight’s software gives these utility companies granular data about how customers consume energy in their homes and businesses and offers ways to reduce their base power demand. They also offer a consumer marketplace for finding rebates and deals on energy-efficient appliances and electric vehicles.
The company has grown rapidly, reaching Unicorn status in 2021, despite only being founded two years previously. Uplight has since entered its next phase of growth, and is focused on significantly scaling its software solutions to further expand globally.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Supplemental Medical Plan: Our Employer of Record partner provides access to supplemental medical coverage tailored to the regulations and needs of your country.
- Generous PTO and Sick Time: Employees enjoy generous paid time off and sick leave to prioritize their well-being.
- Pension (where applicable): We know saving for the future is important, so we help contribute.
- Parental Leave: Support programs so you can focus on your growing family, specific to your country of residence.
- Learning and Development: Take charge of your career development with courses tailored to your interests and goals.
Company HQ
Boulder, CO
Leadership
Luis D'Acosta
(CEO)Previously Executive Vice President at Schneider Electronics, CEO at SEL, Director General of Mexico for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Power Systems Manager in Mexico for ABB.
Michelle Anastasi
(CPO)Prior to joining Uplight in 2021, Michelle wserved as the CPO at Mersive Technologies and Ibotta. She also spent 4 years at ComPsych as the VP of Human Resources.
Hannah Bascom
(Chief Growth/Commericial Officer)Previously, Hannah was a VP of Regulated Business at SPAN. She also spent nearly 5 years at Google as the Head of Energy Partnerships .
Jesse Demmel
(CTO)Jesse was previously the CTO of Sovrn Holdings before joining Uplight in 2021. He also spent nearly 4 years at Under Armour in VP Engineering roles and 3 years at MapMyFitness in Senior Development Manager/VP Engineering roles.
Sally Lambert
(COO)Sally has been at Uplight since 2019, initially joining the team as a Regional Director of Customer Success. Since then, she has held a number of roles and became COO in 2024. She previously held Director roles at Tendril and CLEAResult.
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