Senior Full Stack Engineer

Amber Electric Pty; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Amber Electric is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to optimize home energy technology. Join a diverse team dedicated to renewable energy solutions. Enjoy flexible working hours and a competitive salary while contributing to a sustainable future.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Remote working

Employee stock options

Annual Learning & Development budget

Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support

Annual company conference in Melbourne

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Experience mentoring or leading software engineers.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills in English at C1/C2 level.

Responsibilities

• Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack.
• Mentor and support other members of the engineering team.
• Work collaboratively with peers to ensure timely delivery of projects.

Skills

Positive Mindset

Communication

Typescript

Python

Golang

Job description

About Amber

Amber 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 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 the world towards a renewable future.

We’re now at a critical moment in taking the business to real scale in Europe 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 Batteriesunlocks 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, 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 role

At 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 the worlds energy usage towards renewables?

We are currently hiring for a Senior Full Stack 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 energy generators and earn potentially >£50 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 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, Postgres and snowflake for our data-lake using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.

**You can learn more about our tech stack athttps://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

• You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
• A minimum of 5 or more years of commercial software development experience in either Web or Mobile environments
• Past experience mentoring or leading software engineers
• Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement
• Experience in Typescript is required, other languages such as Python & Golang are a plus.
• 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 (or any other infra-as-code platforms) & Postgres
• Strong verbal and written communications skills in English at a proficiency of C1/C2 level at a minimum.
• Additional language skills, particularly in European languages, are a bonus and may support broader team and customer engagement.

Your Responsibilities

• Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions 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
• Mentor and support other members of the engineering team
• Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production
• The role will see you working directly with external clients while collaborating across internal teams, including leadership, product, design, and engineering to deliver impactful solutions.

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.
• Join a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household renewable energy use
• You’d be a part of a growing team of about 150 people with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
• Flexible working hours & remote working - see "How You Work" for more info.
• Competitive salary within your local market
• Shares in Amber Electric
• Employment and leave entitlements as per your local country
• An external Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support
• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth
• Annual company conference in Melbourne, Australia, flights & accommodation paid for

How You Work

• You will be working predominantly remotely within a high-trust environment where transparency and accountability are foundational to our engineering culture. Amber's flexible approach allows you to shape your schedule around core collaboration hours, which are 7am - 10am Monday to Wednesday (occasional Thursday) London time. This overlap enables meaningful collaboration with your Australian colleagues.
• Outside these core hours, we trust you to manage your time effectively. We focus on outcomes and impact rather than hours logged, but we do expect consistent communication and reliable delivery on commitments. Regular check-ins and transparent progress updates are part of how we maintain this balance of freedom and responsibility.
• We value work-life balance and sustainable pace - we don't want team members to overwork or burn out, nor do we expect you to be available 24/7. Instead, we promote clear boundaries and open dialogue about workload and capacity.
• Our headquarters is located in Melbourne, Australia, with a second co-working office in Sydney, Australia. We're establishing a UK co-working hub that you'll visit during your first 2 weeks of onboarding and approximately every 2 months thereafter for team collaboration. These in-person sessions help strengthen relationships and reinforce our collaborative culture.
• You will be flown out to Australia post your probationary period for 2 weeks to meet with the team face-to-face & to collaborate locally with the Australian engineering team (this would be your final part of on-boarding). We also have AmberCon every year, this is a big team calendar event and we will fly you to Melbourne to be there with the rest of the team.
• We will always cover flights, accommodation and other travel costs as part of our travel policies.

£65,000 - £100,000 a year

Salary range is anywhere between£65,000 and £100,000 base per annum. All roles at Amber include employee stock options over and above the base salary.

This is a full-time role to be based ideally from the UK/Ireland/Germany but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Europe.

We are also open to working 4 days a week, if that's what you are looking for. We do have an co-working space within London, Paddington where we work flexibly between the office and home.

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, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

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 co-founders and the CTO

Please note - As outlined in the "How You Work" section above, our designated core collaboration hours are from 7:00 AM TO 10:00 AM (BST). Accordingly, initial screening meetings will be scheduled within this timeframe to align with our team's availability and ensure effective collaboration.

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 will be accepted only from candidates already based in UK/Ireland and Germany, 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. We are already working with our preferred partners. Thank you!