Backend Software Engineer

Location

San Francisco

Full time

Hybrid

Software Engineering

• $150K – $200K
  • Offers Equity

This range represents SPAN’s good faith estimate of competitively‑priced salary for the role based on national, real‑time industry data from companies of a similar growth stage. This range reflects minimum and maximum new hire salaries for the role across US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by location and individual factors including relevant skills, experience, and education or training.

This range correlates to the relative level of the candidate we believe we need for the role and may require an adjustment for candidates of a different level.
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• Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere.

• Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all‑electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives.

• Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy

• Making electrification upgrades possible

• Building more resilient homes with reliable backup

• Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid

We are seeking a seasoned backend software engineer to join our team building the cloud‑based glue that gives our users access to the rich information and controls provided by SPAN Panel, SPAN Drive, and future generations of our products. Our system collects a large volume of energy monitoring data that needs to be stored, processed and exposed in different ways for different end users from homeowners to utility operators.

We’re also opening up never‑before available levels of control of the energy in the home that need to be accessed in secure and easy‑to‑use APIs.

You’ll join our cloud software engineering team and work with other engineers including data engineering, mobile, web, device software (firmware), and systems software teams. Working with the team, you’ll lead the design and implementation of systems that integrate our hardware, mobile apps, dashboards and external APIs. You’ll work with product owners and other engineers to build features from start to finish.

• Design and develop new features and subsystems in the SPAN Cloud to support a variety of end users from homeowners, installers, fleet and utility partners.

• Work cross‑functionally with product and design teams to learn about our customers, identify solutions and develop the features that solve their needs

• Collaborate between firmware, frontend and backend engineers on projects to seamlessly build a cohesive product

• Work in our Kotlin and Type Script cloud with gRPC, REST APIs and Graph
  
  QL as well as communicating with our IoT devices over MQTT.

• Design APIs and data specifications for internal and external users, including large‑scale B2B enterprise clients.

• Mentor and collaborate with team members, sharing knowledge and best practices to elevate the entire engineering organization

• Maintain and evolve services over time, including planning for scaling, major version upgrades, and long‑term technical debt management

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a backend engineer with a track record of taking ownership of projects and features.

• Experience collaborating with engineers from multiple domains to complete projects

• Experience with Cloud‑native platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure (we use AWS)

• Experience collaborating with coworkers in shared code base using industry standard tools and processes including version control, type systems, linting and unit testing

• Understanding engineering principles and processes to design robust, scalable and resilient systems

• 8+ years of professional experience in a common backend programming language and a desire to…