Staff 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.

This position is primarily remote, with occasional visits to a local office or our corporate headquarters for team-building, training, and collaborative project work. These on-site sessions are designed to strengthen connections, share insights, and ensure a seamless experience for our team and customers. Equipment pick-up from a local branch will be required. We will  provide advance notice whenever on-site attendance is required, making these times purposeful and rewarding.

Overview

The person in this role will join a small but growing team bringing the capabilities of Sunrun’s residential solar+storage product to both homeowners and to utilities. You will work on a completely new platform based on state of the art technologies and will be driving technical and architecture decisions that will affect the platform for years to come. 

Responsibilities

• Establish the standards for the team in areas of technical excellence

• Work collaboratively with Product Management to develop applications using Agile

• Champion adherence to best practice development methodologies

• Write requirements and design specifications for systems, apis and other development artifacts

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

• Ensure creation of automated testing as appropriate for a Continuous Delivery (CD) environment

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

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing complex enterprise applications with Java

• Solid understanding of server side application design patterns

• Strong knowledge of designing, implementing and maintaining REST API’s

• Strong knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL

• Experience with NoSQL databases, particularly DynamoDB and Redis

• Advocate of Dev-Ops culture: responsibility for app in production as well as development

• Ability to work by objectives and to self-manage

• Excellent communication skills

• Good team player

• Feeling of shared ownership of code and other deliverables

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies

• Experience designing highly available, distributed systems

• Strong knowledge of AWS

• Strong knowledge of Git, version control, branching strategies, merging, and rebasing

• Solid understanding of MVC architecture and frameworks

• Experience with IaC tools

• Familiarity with renewable energy and the electricity industry

Recruiter:

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.

Starting salary/wage for this opportunity:

Sunrun provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, a wellbeing program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO). Other rewards may include annual bonus eligibility, based on both company and individual performance, as well as short- and long-term incentives and program-specific awards. Compensation decisions will not be based on a candidate's salary history. Please note: Employee benefits do not apply to our Fusion and Street Sales roles, which are 100% commission-based, (1099-NEC) positions.

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 are essential for our mission of connecting people to the cleanest energy on earth. 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.