Senior Engineer, Backend - Partner VPP (remote, US) - Remote Eligible

Renew Home Job Opportunity

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

What You Will Do

• Build and maintain highly-available backend services allowing energy partners to seamlessly communicate with and operate our VPP platform via API and pub/sub.
• Develop and operate the software running our virtual power plant.
• Execute software projects in a predictable and timely manner, taking into account necessary ancillary components like security, privacy, and testing.
• Rearchitect and optimize existing systems to support significant user growth.
• Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, product management, business development, operations, and marketing.
• Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Prefect, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Redis, Git, Jira.
• Participate in our agile development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1's, and peer code reviews.
• Improve code quality and contribute to team growth through design and code review.