• About Amber
  Amber is a new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 5 mins. We then provide the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price is highest. It’s a cheaper way to buy power, a more rewarding way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.
  We are growing rapidly and have thousands of customers who love what we are doing and a great product that will play a significant role in driving Australia towards a renewable future. We are backed by Australia’s leading VCs (including Square Peg Capital and Main Sequence Ventures), impact-focused investors and individuals, and most recently by Commonwealth Bank, NRMA and Gentrack.
  We’re now at a critical moment in taking the business to real scale as we disrupt a huge market for the better. You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 140, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. 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.

THE AMBER ELECTRIC PRODUCT TEAM DEVELOPS AND SUPPORTS:

• Home automation integrations (to batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability
• Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage
• A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing
• The marketing site and associated tools to drive customer growth
  The tech stack is React Native mobile app, some React web frontends, and a Serverless Lambda backend on AWS. We’re using Typescript top to bottom, and Apollo GraphQL sits in the middle. We keep our data in DynamoDB and Timescale, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.
  You can learn more about our tech stack at https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric
  While we’re looking for talented and driven individuals our desire is to build a champion team, not a team of champions. We’re full-stack-ish; while it’s impossible for everyone to excel across every layer of the stack we value people who can chip in wherever they’re needed. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace from the ground up. We want engineers who are as comfortable communicating with people as they are with their code.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• At Amber, we want to hire self-starters who are eager to learn, and are comfortable working in a changing environment
• You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
• Between 3 and 5 years of commercial development experience in either Web or Mobile environments
• 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 favor generalists who can be or looking to be flexible across the stack, both frontend and backend
• Growing verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential

ABOUT THE ROLE

Want to help improve the environment by shifting Australia’s energy usage towards renewables?
We are currently hiring for mid-level Software Engineers. Amber provides a great opportunity to apply your skills as an Engineer to help enable the uptake of renewable energy. Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in the customers’ homes, enabling them to time their usage to consume power at times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting them outbid coal and gas generators and earn potentially >$100 in an afternoon.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Write and maintain high quality program code across the stack in the areas of your specialty
• Flexibly contribute outside your specialty 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
• Research, consult, analyse and evaluate our system requirements
• Test, debug, diagnose and correct errors in our tech stack according to our operational specifications
• Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production