Sr Software Engineer - Remote Eligible

Smart Home Team Engineer

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we're driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.

Our mission is to redefine the home experience with tech and services to create a smarter, greener, safer home that saves our customers money every month.

Summary:

In this role, you'll be building the back-end APIs and services that power our app experiences for Vivint's millions of customers. Your work will directly impact how customers use Vivint to secure and control their homes. In this highly collaborative role, you will partner with teams across Vivint—including other platform engineers, mobile app developers, camera embedded engineers, QA, and product and program managers—to support new smart home camera and security products and features.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and implement APIs for mobile apps and cameras in collaboration with app developers and embedded camera engineers.
• Develop cloud services that process the events and settings that enable our Smart Home experiences.
• Participate in architecture discussions for new features and technical improvements.

What We're Looking For:

3+ years experience with Go

Experience with Python

Experience using AI tools to design, develop, and review software

Experience building secure, scalable, high-availability, low latency, and distributed cloud services.

Experience developing gRPC and REST APIs

Experience using MQTT to communicate with IoT devices

Experience with using Kafka to send messages between microservices

Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

Experience with Mongo DB or other NoSQL document databases

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Capable of identifying problems, taking initiative to propose solutions, and successfully executing plans

5+ years of software development experience

B.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred

Familiarity with source control (Git) and CI/CD build systems (ArgoCD)

Learn about the Vivint Culture and why it's a great place to grow your career! Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:

• Free daily lunch and drinks on site
• Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
• Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
• Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
• Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Employee Resource Groups

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employee must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills. Official description on file with Talent. Vivint, an equal opportunity employer, does not consider any protected traits (e.g., race, creed, color, religion, gender, national origin, non-job-related disability, age, or any other protected trait) when hiring—under federal, state, and local laws. We are a drug-free environment. We do not conduct pre-employment drug screening; however, we do conduct random drug testing on site.