Staff Software Engineer

Lunar Energy; City Of London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A renewable energy company in the UK is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build infrastructure for real-time data processing and optimize solutions using machine learning. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of software engineering experience, particularly with cloud technologies and IoT devices. This role offers competitive benefits, including remote work options and a strong focus on professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary and stock options

Private medical insurance

Training budget and days

Cycle to Work scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Life assurance and income protection

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience in strongly typed languages, such as Typescript or Rust.
• Experience working with IoT devices in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Building platform infrastructure to process big streams of data in real time.
• Solving complex optimisation problems using machine learning.
• Designing APIs and UI interfaces using functional programming.

Skills

Software Development

Machine Learning

Cloud Computing

Functional Programming

IoT Experience

Tools

AWS

Unix Operating Systems

Typescript

Python

Job description

Responsibilities

• Building the required platform infrastructure to ingest and process big streams of data in real time, using AWS primitives
• Solving complex optimisation problems, using machine learning and other often bespoke algorithms
• Designing and implementing the business logic to expose our functionality via APIs and UI interfaces, using functional programming and serverless computing

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience in strongly typed languages, such as Typescript, Rust or others
• Experience working with IoT devices in the cloud
• Working experience with Unix operating systems
• You enjoy working in a smaller team where you can see the huge impact of your work
• You value learning and approach new information with an open mind, willing to reconsider your opinions when presented with compelling evidence
• You are autonomous and enjoy managing your own workload and deadlines

Desirable Skills

• Experience with the functional programming paradigm
• Experience using AWS, serverless technologies and infrastructure as code
• Experience with Machine Learning in Python
• Professional experience in the renewable energy sector, or an interest in green tech

Company Overview

At Lunar Energy, we're on a mission to transform the way we power our homes by building an ecosystem of all-electric products, starting with a next-generation home battery system and a cloud PaaS to manage large fleets of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) assets. Comprising a team of visionary entrepreneurs and dedicated technology and industry experts, we're united by our shared vision of deploying and building products to electrify homes that are connected through an integrated software platform.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our talented team of Software Engineers in the UK.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and stock options package
• Access to a private Medical Insurance scheme through BUPA (medical history disregarded)
• A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
• 5% employer contributions pension matching
• Life assurance & income protection schemes (available after 12 months of service)
• A budget of £1,000 per financial year for work-related training and an allowance of 4 training days.
• Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit.
• A £200 bonus upon joining for remote work setup.
• Access to Spill - a Mental Health Support platform.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
• 25 days of annual holiday entitlement plus 8 Bank Holidays.
• Fully remote working within the UK

Other Information

Duration: Full-time