Bright (YC W15) | Full Time | San Francisco
Bright is hiring a Software Engineer to help bring solar to developing countries - more here: www.thinkbright.mx/jobs
You’ll help build out Bright’s technology – a wide range of projects, including:
- Building an automated solar monitoring and alerting system from scratch (data analysis + visualization, solar modeling).
- Data integrations with existing Mexican energy infrastructure (reverse engineering, API integrations).
- Design / architect / implement a web platform for homeowners, local solar partners, and financiers (web technologies, API design, backend software).
- Working with finance, operations, investors and customers to develop a deep empathy for Bright’s end users, iterating quickly.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of professional full-stack experience. You’ve led development in large projects before. You’ve built stuff from the ground up before. You’ve used a well-known web framework before (Django/Python, Rails/Ruby, etc.).
- Working knowledge of ops and efficient monitoring. You’ve carried a pager before. We’re on AWS+Docker.
- Versatility: In addition to having an intimate knowledge of the whole web stack, you understand how all the pieces fit together (front-end, database, network layer, etc.) and how they will impact the performance of our platform.
- Practical experience with unit testing and functional testing.
- Experience working with various relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc.), non-relational databases (Redis, Cassandra, etc.), and caching systems (memcached).
- Strong opinions on technology decisions. We’re currently using React backed by Node.js, but we’re open to the right tool for the job.
- Strong architecture skills. You know how to build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements.
- Prior startup experience and product intuition is a plus
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