Software Engineer

Everything we do at Sunrun is driven by a determination to transform the way we power our lives. We know that starts at the individual employee level. We strive to foster an environment you can thrive in through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Overview

As a Software Engineer, you’ll help with technical direction for all grid services engineering solutions at Sunrun and will also lead the way in transforming our systems to self-healing, reliable and reactive systems.

This position is for the engineering tools team. Our focus is to build out tools to support permitting, inspections and the tooling that helps us install Solar.

Responsibilities

• Help establish the development and architectural standards for the team in areas of technical excellence.

• Work collaboratively with Product Management, DevOps, and other software developers to develop applications that can be easily tested and perform well under a variety of network conditions.

• Champion adherence to best-practice development methodologies.

• Design and code appropriate, scalable, and secure algorithms, data structures, and software components.

• Lead design and code reviews.

• Facilitate automated testing so all teams can innovate at a rapid pace.

• Mentor and build skills across the team through effective standards setting, code reviews, and pairing. 

• Tune production applications to maximize efficiency.

• Demonstrated technical leadership skills with ability to conduct code reviews and architect solutions.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Minimum of 1 - 3 years experience designing and coding enterprise level applications or an applicable college degree in computer science.

• Experience developing complex enterprise applications with Typescript/Javascript/React/NodeJS and/or Java/Kotlin.

• Experience with REST API architecture and development, especially using Swagger or Apigee.

• Basic knowledge of Git including version control, branching, merging/rebasing, and pull requests.

• Strong focus on automation including Continuous Integration / Deployment with writing unit and integration tests.

• Good security practices and experience writing code that manages customer data.

• Impeccable communication and team skills with shared ownership of code and other deliverables.

• Familiarity with Docker and Serverless architectures like GCP Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS, S3, GCP Pubsub, SQS, CloudFormation, Terraform, and/or other similar cloud services.

• Experience with Maven/Gradle build systems.

• Experience with Github Actions / Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with team development tooling (especially with Jira and Github).

• Experience with development of self-healing, reliable and reactive systems.

Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to acts, such as The Equal Pay Transparency Act. It assumes that the successful candidate will be located in markets within the United States that warrant the compensation listed. Candidates in locations outside this local area may have a different  starting salary range for this opportunity which may be higher or lower.  Please speak with your recruiter to learn more.

The starting salary/wage for this opportunity is: $98,333 to $144,182

Other rewards may include annual bonus eligibility, which is based on company and individual performance, short and long term incentives, and program-specific awards.  Sunrun provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO). A candidate’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions. 

Recruiter:

This description sets forth the general nature and level of the qualifications and duties required of employees in this job classification, as well as some of the essential functions of this role.  It is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of all essential duties and qualifications. If you have a disability or special need that may require reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the hiring process or to perform this role if you are offered employment, please let us know by contacting us at candidateaccomodations@sunrun.com.

Sunrun is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging drives our ability to build diverse teams and develop inclusive work environments. At Sunrun, we believe that empowering people and valuing their differences will help us create a planet run by the sun for everyone. We are committed to equal employment opportunities without consideration of race, color, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal convictions, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.