Senior Backend Engineer – Remote (Energy & APIs)

Renew Home, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Home office setup allowance

No preset vacation limits (meaningful,

Parental leave benefits

Health and wellness benefits

401(k) plan with company contributions

Job summary

Renew Home is seeking a strong backend Software Engineer to join our HVAC Ecosystem team and help drive third-party device integrations and the day-to-day experiences of our customers. In this role, you will work with product, analytics, and the engineering team to develop new features that shape how customers can interact with our product.

You will design, develop and build backend features, own critical product experience flows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across a modern tech

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience building backend software services.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.
• Experience building features for scale and performance - using scalable APIs and working with REST frameworks.
• Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, MongoDB, etc.).
• Very strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and build backend features to support a wide variety of Renew Home customer experiences and third-party device integrations to enable energy saving automation.
• Serve as the technical owner of critical product experience flows.
• Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, analytics, and product management.
• Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, Nx, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.
• Implement API monitoring tools and proactively monitor API service performance.
• Participate in our development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s and peer code reviews.

Skills

Python

Java

PHP

Ruby

SQL

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS/GCP

Celery

Git

Jira

Ubuntu

REST APIs

Job description

Renew Home is seeking a strong backend Software Engineer to join our HVAC Ecosystem team and help drive third-party device integrations and the day-to-day experiences of our customers. In this role, you will work with product, analytics, and the engineering team to develop new features that shape how customers can interact with our product.

You will design, develop and build backend features, own critical product experience flows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across a modern tech