Staff Backend Software Engineer

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🕒 January 3

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

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SPAN

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51 - 200 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

⚡ Energy

Manufacturing • Energy • Smart Home

SPAN is a company that revolutionizes the traditional electrical panel by offering a smarter version that provides energy management and control for homes. Their products, such as the SPAN Panel, enable precise monitoring of energy usage at the room and appliance level, and facilitate cost-saving strategies through actionable insights. SPAN's technology supports efficient home battery use, electric vehicle charging, and renewable energy integration, enabling homeowners to extend battery life during power outages and avoid costly utility upgrades. SPAN's solutions are designed for new construction and renovations, preparing homes for future energy needs with intelligent, real-time adjustments and safety features. Their products are compatible with major battery systems like Tesla Powerwall and Enphase, making them a valuable companion in the smart and sustainable home space.

📋 Description

• 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 TypeScript cloud with gRPC, REST APIs and GraphQL 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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 work with Kotlin, TypeScript, and Python • Strong JVM expertise with deep understanding of JVM internals, performance tuning, and memory management with proven track record of maintaining services over time, including planning for scaling, major version upgrades, and managing technical debt • Deep experience with Apache Kafka including topics, consumer groups, stream processing, and event-driven architectures • Container-based deployments such a Kubernetes • Spring Boot

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company • Comprehensive benefits: 100% employee premiums for base plans on medical, dental, vision with options for additional coverage. • Parental leave up to twenty four (24) weeks depending on eligibility • Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit • Strong focus on team building and company culture: Employee Resource Groups, monthly social events, SPANcakes recognition breakfast, lunch, and learns • Flexible hours, one holiday per month, and flexible time off