Senior Software Engineer

Core 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
• Take high level ownership of technical design and project delivery

This role helps enable the uptake of renewable energy by developing technology that optimizes thousands of batteries and other devices in customers' homes, allowing them to shift energy usage to times of high renewable availability and export power back to the grid at critical times to outbid fossil fuel generators.

Required skills and qualifications:

• 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
• Strong verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans
• Positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
• Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement
• Experience 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

Benefits and perks:

• Competitive salary and share options in Amber
• Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD
• Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies
• External Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support
• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth
• Part of a rapidly growing team of over 180 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations
• Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household and grid energy use
• 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 is an entirely new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. They give customers direct access to real-time wholesale electricity prices and technology to shift energy usage to times when cheaper renewables are available, helping Australia reach 100% renewable energy faster.