Software Engineer

Description:

⚡About Amber
Amber is a new way to buy and sell power, a more rewarding way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.
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 towards a renewable future. 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 .
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 140 , 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.
About the role
Want to help improve the environment by shifting Australia’s energy usage towards renewables?
We are currently hiring for mid-level Software Engineers. 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 coal and gas generators and earn potentially > $100 in an afternoon.
The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:
- 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 - Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage - A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing - The marketing site and associated tools to drive customer growth
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 and Timescale , using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.
You can learn more about our tech stack at https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric
While we’re looking for talented and driven individuals our desire is to build a champion team, not a team of champions. We’re full-stack-ish; while it’s impossible for everyone to excel across every layer of the stack we value people who can chip in wherever they’re needed. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace from the ground up. We want engineers who are as comfortable communicating with people as they are with their code.Qualifications and Skills

• At Amber, we want to hire self-starters who are eager to learn, and are comfortable working in a changing environment
• You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
• Between 3 and 5 years of commercial development experience in either Web or Mobile environments
• Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement
• Experience with languages sharing features with Typescript is also a plus (such as JavaScript, C#, Go, or similar)
• We favour generalists who can be or looking to be flexible across the stack, both frontend and backend
• Growing verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential

Your responsibilities

• Write and maintain high quality program code across the stack in the areas of your speciality
• Flexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting your team when they need it
• Work collaboratively with your peers in product and across the wider company to ensure you're always shipping the right thing the right way at the right time
• Research, consult, analyse and evaluate our system requirements
• Test, debug, diagnose and correct errors in our tech stack according to our operational specifications
• Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production

Benefits

• 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
• You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 90 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations
• Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household renewable energy use
• Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD
• We offset 100% of your carbon footprint for as long as you work with us (via Nul)
• Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies
• An external Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support
• Competitive salary and shares in Amber
• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth

$120,000 - $145,000 a yearRange is quoted excluding superannuation. All roles at Amber include employee stock options. This is a full-time role to be based ideally from Melbourne, but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia.
We are also open to working 4 days a week if that's what you are looking for. We mostly work from home, catching up in a co-working space in the CBD every now and then. We expect to remain Melbourne based but maintain flexibility between the office and WFH.
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, color, 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 in person 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 founders and the CTO
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 only from candidates already based in Australia please. No recruitment firms.