At Lunar Energy, we're on a mission to transform the way we power our homes by building an ecosystem of all-electric products, starting with a next-generation home battery system and a cloud PaaS to manage large fleets of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) assets. Comprising a team of visionary entrepreneurs and dedicated technology and industry experts, we're united by our shared vision of deploying and building products to electrify homes that are connected through an integrated software platform.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our small, focused and collaborative team of talented developers. Your work will mostly focus on the Typescript+React-based web front-end to our platform, but an ability to work with the supporting (Typescript) backend services would be beneficial.
Your responsibilities would include-:
- Taking initiative to ensure delivery of high stakes and/or time sensitive deliverables
- Working and co-ordinating across multiple teams to ensure delivery, raise standards and ensure consistency
- Ensuring the quality and reliability of our highly available systems
- Contributing to the continual improvement of our development best practices
You will be supported to work and grow your knowledge on multiple parts of the stack according to your interests and abilities. Our team has a strong tradition of using functional programming and type systems to build pragmatic and flexible systems to solve business problems.
Your key skills & experience:
- Expert level in the Typescript programming language
- Experience in backend development using serverless architectures
- Experience in frontend development using React
- Experience using Machine Learning for forecasting or optimisation usecases
- Experience working in a functional programming paradigm or openness to doing so
- Experience mentoring other developers and providing leadership on technical decisions
- Working experience with Unix-like operating systems
- You are autonomous and enjoy managing your workload and deadlines
Optional/useful:
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with high data throughput pipelines, IOT or the energy sector
- Ability to work independently, using your assessment of the technical landscape to work out where you will be most effective
- Ability to engage with multiple technical stakeholders and teams, to find common needs and themes
Joining us gives you:
- Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and stock options package.
- Healthcare Benefits: Access to a private Medical Insurance scheme through BUPA (medical history disregarded).
- Wellbeing Perks: A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash.
- Financial Security: 5% employer contributions pension matching, life assurance & income protection schemes (available after 12 months of service)
- Investment in Your Growth: A budget of £1,000 per financial year for work-related training and an allowance of 4 training days.
- Other Benefits: Participate in the Cycle To Work scheme and benefit from the Home office Setup Support: Receive £200 upon joining for remote work setup.
- Mental Health Support: Access to Spill - a Mental Health Support platform.
- Family-Focused Benefits: Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, Workplace Nursery benefit.
- Time Off: 25 days of annual holiday entitlement plus 8 Bank Holidays.
- Hybrid Work Arrangements: Work one day per week in the London office
Duration: Full-time
Fully remote within the UK, but you are welcome any time at our office in Spitalfields, London (UK), as often as you like.
Inclusivity Matters: Lunar Energy is committed to being an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from individuals regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, age, or social background. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented and minority groups, and we do not filter applications by university background, welcoming those who have taken alternative educational and career paths.
Join Lunar Energy and be a part of the future of sustainable home energy. Make an impact, grow your expertise, and contribute to a cleaner, more eco-conscious world. Apply now!
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What We Do
Lunar Energy was founded to make energy cleaner, safer, and more reliable. We build products for home electrification to move the world towards 100% clean energy.
