Staff Engineer, Backend - Consumer Experience (Remote, US)

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at   to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.
Role Summary

Renew Home is looking for a strong backend Software Engineer to join our Consumer Experience team and help drive the day-to-day experiences of our customers. In this role, you will work with product, analytics, and the engineering team to develop new features that shape how customers can interact with our product.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop and build backend features to support a wide variety of Renew Home customer experiences and third-party device integrations to enable energy saving automation.
• Architect systems to handle users at scale.
• Serve as the technical owner of critical product experience flows. 
• Provide technical guidance to others in order to maintain a high quality bar, unblock junior engineers, and support correct prioritization of work.
• Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, product management, and partnerships.
• Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, Nx, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.
• Implement API monitoring tools and proactively monitor API service performance.
• Independently handle the task breakdown and prioritization required to resolve an issue.
• Participate in our development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s and peer code reviews.

• 7-10+ years of industry experience building backend software services.
• Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.
• Experience architecting systems for scale and performance - building and maintaining scalable APIs and working with REST frameworks.
• Experience building robust technical integrations with external partners:
• Navigating partnerships and alignment from the engineering side.
• Gracefully handling technical issues with 3P integrations to minimize customer impact.
• Coordinating with external engineering teams.
• Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL and no-SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, mongodb etc.).
• Very strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.
• Strong leadership and communication skills - the ability to take ownership of the entire development process.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.
• Bonuses:
• Experience with scalable distributed data processing.
• Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions, pub/sub, Prefect tools.
• Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
• Experience in the electric power industry.

What You'll Get

• A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is: $170k - $220k.
• Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
• Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
• Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

Not eligible for visa sponsorship.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.