Amber is an entirely 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 and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid. It’s a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.
We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly (over 80k customers). We have also recently expanded into licensing our core technology to utilities overseas, including a partnership with E.ON Next in the UK.
Amber is backed by top Australian and international investors including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners (UK/Europe based), and E.ON Next.
We are scaling rapidly and you’d be joining a team of over 200 committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture as we transform a major industry.
Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $20/kWh, and Amber for EVs enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. In 2026, we will push this even further with our new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
💻 About the role
We are hiring engineers for our Tech Enablement team - a team that ensures our engineering staff are productive, secure, and supported in doing their best work. We are motivated by helping and unblocking others, and have skills that span documentation, deployment, release tooling, observability, incident management, reliability, continuous integration, and infrastructure.
We use tools and vendors like CDK, Notion, GitHub and GitHub Actions, AWS and serverless, Snowflake, Expo, and Typescript. We support teams that work with tools like React and React Native, AWS Lambda, SQS, Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and Kinesis.
To keep colleagues unblocked we split our time across a planned strategic work, and reactive collaboration. We mix our own expertise with the best patterns we can see working across the organization and define golden paths that make the best solutions easy.
Qualifications and Skills
- You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
- A minimum of 5 years of commercial software development experience in product development, DevOps, platform or SRE teams
- Experience and opinions about several of the following:
- AWS, particularly serverless architectures, Cloud-formation, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB, and Aurora Postgres
- Infrastructure as code tools and practices
- CI/CD tooling and practices
- Observability
- Incident Management and on-call practices
- Typescript, JavaScript and the Node.js ecosystem
- React, React-Native and the expo ecosystem
- A pragmatic and customer focused approach to collaboration
- Strong verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential
Your responsibilities
- Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack in the areas of your speciality
- Flexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting colleagues 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
- Mentor and support other members of the engineering team
- Take high level ownership of technical design and project delivery
🎉 Benefits
- 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.
- You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 200 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
- Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household and grid energy use.
- Enjoy a lively, collaborative workspace at our buzzing Melbourne CBD headquarters in the heart of the city
- Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements.
- Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.
- An external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support.
- Competitive salary and share options in Amber.
- Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth.
- Additional PTO between Xmas & New Year
Skills Required
- Minimum of 5 years of commercial software development experience
- Experience with AWS and serverless architectures
- Proficiency in Typescript and the Node.js ecosystem
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and practices
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
What We Do
Founded in 2017 by Chris Thompson and Dan Adams, Amber gives customers dynamic power prices that change depending on the real wholesale value of energy. Customers can pay less by charging your battery when energy is greener and cheaper as well as earn more by exporting when prices increase. Combined with Amber's smart tech, solar and battery owners have the power to supercharge their savings, take control of their battery and make their energy work harder for them. Amber is backed by some of Australia’s best accelerators and investors, including EnergyLab (Australia’s leading energy accelerator) and Startmate (Australia’s leading tech accelerator). Investors include Blackbird, Square Peg, Main Sequence, Commonwealth Bank and Black Sheep Capital. The company has won Startup Vic’s Impact Pitch Night, for the best startup focused on making a positive social impact and been named Victorian Start-up of the Year.
