Backend Software Engineer

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 manage residential energy for users, prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort, while contributing to cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels heard. Learn more about our work at www.renewhome.com.

What You Will Do:

• Build and maintain highly-available backend services enabling energy partners to seamlessly communicate with and operate our VPP platform.
• Develop and support the software operating our virtual power plants.
• Execute software projects with a high degree of independence over multiple weeks.
• Lead small groups of engineers to deliver on objectives.
• Lead the design of systems and features, including interfaces with other teams and external entities.
• Rearchitect and optimize existing systems to support significant user growth (5x to 10x).
• Work with cross-functional teams (engineering, product management, business development, operations, marketing) to ensure needs are met and to escalate gaps and risks.
• Integrate cloud services into the broader system architecture.
• Work across our stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Prefect, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.
• Participate in our agile development process, including team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1s, and peer code reviews.
• Mentor team members through design and code review, delegation, and coaching.
• Drive a strong engineering culture.

Requirements:

• 7-10+ years of industry experience building backend software services.
• Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.
• Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, etc.).
• Strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.
• Experience leading the design of complex software systems.
• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to build and ship features independently.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail; ability to work collaboratively to resolve ambiguity, formulate clear problem statements, and develop solutions within business constraints.

Bonuses:

• Experience with scalable distributed data processing.
• Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions, GCP pub/sub.
• Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
• Experience in the electric power industry.

Benefits:

What You'll Get:

• Full-time position with a competitive salary based on experience. Base salary: $170k - $220k.
• Fully remote work environment with a home office set-up allowance.
• Work-life balance: No pre-set vacation limits (with a culture of taking meaningful PTO), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package including health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Renew Home is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. We are committed to ensuring 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.