Staff Backend Software Engineer, Sense
$180-200k
+ Equity
Office located in Cambridge, MA
Intelligent home energy monitor
Open for applications
Intelligent home energy monitor
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-200k
+ Equity
Office located in Cambridge, MA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reduce global carbon emissions by transforming the relationship between people, homes and the electric grid.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience with a degree in a relevant field and proven track record in professional software engineering
- Mastery of Java, Linux, and AWS
- Experienced at designing clean, usable REST APIs and integrating with partner systems
- Strong understanding of how to apply security and data privacy principles within your specific engineering domain
- DevOps and SRE experience maintaining a production environment
- Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, and Python experience is a plus
- Energy industry or climate tech experience is a plus
- Authorized to work in the US
What the job involves
- We're looking for talented self-starters who want to be part of the energy transformation and are ready, willing, and able to tackle tough challenges and complex technical problems
- When you join the Sense team, you're helping us build a cleaner, more resilient future
- Sense supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and is an equal-opportunity employer
- We strive to foster an engaging, respectful, and supportive community where everyone feels empowered to do their best work
- As a Staff Backend Engineer at Sense, you’ll use your expertise to expand the capabilities of our cloud platform and enable the next generation of new product features. You will be a key contributor and leader maintaining and scaling a high-quality production service
- Focused on delivering functionality that benefits the customer and provides real value
- Able to partner effectively with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and engineering managers across multiple disciplines
- Ready to work with embedded engineers to develop systems that integrate with various hardware platforms
- Comfortable working closely with partners and customers to ensure success
- Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses
- Interested in building high-availability, performant, and scalable systems
- Tenacious when tracking down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to solve problems
- Ready to own team projects from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and bug fixing. Complete day-to-day work autonomously and identify gaps in requirements or processes, proactively suggesting improvements
- Familiar and comfortable with AI coding practices
- A strong leader and outspoken advocate for engineering best practices and team collaboration
Our take
Sense is a technology company hoping to have a positive impact on the environment by providing intelligent home energy monitors. So far, it has done so by supplying direct-to-consumer products for detecting and monitoring devices in the home, helping customers to understand and reduce their household energy consumption. However, it has recently announced a switch to a utility-driven, software-only model.
The company has distinguished itself through its proprietary AI and ML-based technology, which is capable of delivering real-time insights into energy and device activity (even if the devices themselves are not smart). The plan now is that this technology will be integrated into smart meters, rather than delivered to consumers and controlled via the company's app.
Sense has received substantial funding which has allowed it to expand its global footprint across the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and other regions. It has also secured lucrative partnerships with businesses such as Schneider, a key provider of energy infrastructure across the world. As it embarks on a new chapter, driven by the mass adoption of smart meters, we expect further success for the company.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2022
$22.6m
SERIES C
Apr 2022
$105m
SERIES C
Total funding: $213.6m
Company benefits
- Generous healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life and disability insurance
- Dental and vision benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Accident Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- 401K with company match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid family and medical leave
- Fitness subsidies
- Hiring practices that promote diversity
- Unconscious bias training
- Hybrid and remote work opportunities
- Remote work stipend
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
Leadership
Michael Phillips
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Founder and CTO at SpeechWorks and vlingo, as well as CTO at ScanSoft.
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