Senior Software Engineer

About AmberAmber is an entirely new way of thinking about buying, banking and selling energy – where home energy technology works to put money back in customers' pockets and accelerate the renewable energy transition.

Everything we build is about making that possible and putting traditional retailers in the shade.We believe the cheapest, fastest and most rewarding way to reach 100% renewables is to automate the growing wave of home batteries and EVs.

Customers get direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price and the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price they can be paid for it is highest.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 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 and the world towards a renewable future.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 150, 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.Amber for Batteries

• unlocks more value for homeowners with batteries, driving down their energy bills and their payback periods.

By storing energy when it's cheap and exporting it to the grid for wholesale feed-in rates of up to $19 / kWh, Amber's software is completely changing the economics of home batteries and accelerating the energy transition.Amber for EVs is our EV smart charging solution that helps EV owners save on their charging costs by using more cheap, renewable energy - whether that's their own excess solar energy, or renewable energy that's abundant in the grid.

In 2025, we are kicking off development of our game-changing vehicle-to-grid technology.

About the roleAt Amber we believe that enabling a culture where everyone at Amber is set up to do the best work of their lives and feels connected and supported is one of the most important things we can do to ensure Amber's long-term success.Want to help improve the environment by shifting Australia and the world's energy usage towards renewables?We are currently hiring for aSenior Software Engineer.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 appsfor customers to monitor and manage their energy usage- Apricing and billing enginefor real time energy pricing- Themarketing site and associated toolsto drive customer growth- Thetech stackisReact Native mobile app, someReact web frontends, and aServerless Lambda backend on AWS.

We're usingTypescript top to bottom, andApollo GraphQLsits in the middle.- We keep our data inDynamoDBandTimescale, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.

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 skillsYou have a positive mindset : equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-doA minimum of 5 or more years of commercial software development experience in either Web or Mobile environmentsPast experience mentoring or leading software engineersCommercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirementExperience with languages sharing features with Typescript is also a plus (such as JavaScript, C#, Go, or similar)We favour generalists who can be flexible across the stack, but are particularly interested in engineers with deep skills and experience across both frontend and backend.

It would be a bonus if you have skills in CDK & Postgres databasesStrong verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essentialYour responsibilitiesMake sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack in the areas of your specialityFlexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting your team when they need itWork 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 timeMentor and support other members of the engineering teamSupport the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to productionTake high level ownership of technical design and project deliveryBenefitsWe're committed to building adiverse and inclusive workplaceand agreat cultureof people who love coming to work to build a better world.You'd be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 150 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.Be part of agrowing technology start-upthat will shape the future of household and grid energy use.Flexible working hourswith provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD.Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.Anexternal Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)for mental health support.Competitive salary and share options in Amber.Annual Learning & Development budgetto support your personal growth.$150,000 - $195,000 a yearRange is quoted excluding superannuation.

All roles at Amber include employee stock options.This is afull-time roleto bebased ideally from Melbourne, but we are also open to considering the right candidateanywhere within Australia.We are also open to working 4 days a week / 9-day a fortnight, if that's what you are looking for.

We do have an office in the Melbourne CBD, where we work flexibly between the office and home.

For those based in Sydney, catch up in a co-working space in the city every now and then, and rest of the locations in Australia work from home.

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 ApplyPlease include yourresumeand acover letter andtell 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 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 CTOWe 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 will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia, preferably Melbourne with full working rights!Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly.

All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.No recruitment agencies please.

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