Senior Backend Engineer

Our Mission

SPAN is enabling electrification for all

• Decarbonization

  is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere.

• Electrification

  is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives.

• Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy
• Making electrification upgrades possible
• Building more resilient homes with reliable backup
• Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid

The Role

• 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 gRPC, REST APIs and GraphQL as well as communicating with our IoT devices over MQTT.

• 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

About You

• 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 Kotlin, TypeScript, and Python

• Internet of Things (IoT) products (e.g. AWS IoT, Google Cloud IoT, something homegrown) or other hardware component to the product
• AWS SaaS and IaaS offerings
• Container-based deployments such a kubernetes
• A variety of different datastores (e.g. SQL and noSQL, key-value stores, document stores)
• gRPC or GraphQL APIs.
• Products with a rich mobile app
• Infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi or Terraform etc.