Backend Software Engineer, Span.IO

• 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer with a track record of taking ownership of projects and features
• Experience collaborating with engineers from multiple domains to complete projects
• Experience with Cloud-native platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure (we use AWS)
• Experience collaborating with coworkers in shared code base using industry standard tools and processes including type systems, linting and unit testing
• Understanding engineering principles and processes to design robust, scalable and resilient systems
• 5+ years of professional experience in a common backend programming language and a desire to work with TypeScript, Kotlin, and Python

Desirable

• We are seeking a seasoned backend software engineer to join our team building the cloud-based glue that gives our users access to the rich information and controls provided by SPAN Panel, SPAN Drive, and future generations of our products
• Our system collects a large volume of energy monitoring data that needs to be stored, processed and exposed in different ways for different end users from homeowners to utility operators
• We're also opening up never-before available levels of control of the energy in the home that need to be accessed in secure and easy-to-use APIs
• You’ll join our cloud software engineering team and work with other engineers including mobile, web, device software (firmware), and systems software teams
• Working with the team, you’ll lead the design and implementation of systems that integrate our hardware, mobile apps, dashboards and external APIs
• You'll work with product owners and other engineers to build features from start to finish
• Design and develop new features and subsystems in the SPAN Cloud to support a variety of end users from homeowners, installers, fleet and utility partners
• Work cross-functionally with product and design teams to learn about our customers, identify solutions and develop the features that solve their needs
• Collaborate between firmware, frontend and backend engineers on projects to seamlessly build a cohesive product
• Work in our Kotlin and TypeScript cloud with REST APIs and GraphQL as well as communicating with our IoT devices MQTT and gRPC
• Design APIs and data specifications for internal and external users
• Potential Projects
• Architect and co-ordinate full-stack solutions to enable new panel functionality such as geolocation-specific demand reduction to assist in reducing peak power draw
• Design and build 3rd party cloud-based integrations with a variety of other hardware partners
• Scale our existing cloud and data infrastructure to support SPAN’s growing fleet