Software Engineer
Amber Electric
Software Engineering
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
AUD 120k-145k / year + Equity
Posted 6+ months ago
⚡About Amber
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 50k 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 175-person team 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 $19/kWh, and Amber for EVs enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. In 2025, we will push this even further with our new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
💻 About the role
At Amber we believe that enabling a culture where everyone at Amber is set up to do the best work of their lives and feels connected and supported is one of the most important things we can do to ensure Amber’s long-term success.
Want to help improve the environment by shifting Australia and the world’s energy usage towards renewables?
We are currently hiring for a Mid-Level Software Engineer with:
- Front-end strength who cares deeply about user journeys, balancing usability with thoughtful moments of delight.
- Experience or interest in roles close to customers, growth, eCommerce, or other end-user-facing product environments.
Amber provides a great opportunity to apply your skills as an Engineer to help enable the uptake of renewable energy. Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in the customers' homes, enabling them to time their usage to consume power at times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting them outbid coal and gas generators and earn potentially >$100 in an afternoon.
The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:
- Home automation integrations (to batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability
- Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage
- A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing
- The marketing site and associated tools to drive customer growth
- The tech stack is React Native mobile app, some React web frontends, and a Serverless Lambda backend on AWS. We’re using Typescript top to bottom, and Apollo GraphQL sits in the middle.
- We keep our data in DynamoDB and Timescale, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.
You can learn more about our tech stack at https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric
While we’re looking for talented and driven individuals our desire is to build a champion team, not a team of champions. We’re full-stack-ish; while it’s impossible for everyone to excel across every layer of the stack we value people who can chip in wherever they’re needed. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace from the ground up. We want engineers who are as comfortable communicating with people as they are with their code.
Qualifications and Skills
- At Amber, we want to hire self-starters who are eager to learn, and are comfortable working in a changing environment
- You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
- Between 3 and 5 years of commercial development experience in either Web or Mobile environments
- Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement
- Experience with languages sharing features with Typescript is also a plus (such as JavaScript, C#, Go, or similar)
- We favor generalists who can be or looking to be flexible across the stack, both frontend and backend
- Growing verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential
Your responsibilities
- Write and maintain high quality program code across the stack in the areas of your specialty
- Flexibly contribute outside your specialty in other areas of the stack supporting your team 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
- Research, consult, analyse and evaluate our system requirements
- Test, debug, diagnose and correct errors in our tech stack according to our operational specifications
- Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production
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 150 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.
- Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD.
- 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.
This is a full-time role to be based ideally from Melbourne, but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia.
We are open to discussing 4 days a week or 9 days a fortnight once you're ramped up, if that's what you are looking for. We mostly work from home, catching up in a co-working space in the CBD every now and then. We expect to remain Melbourne based but maintain flexibility between the office and WFH.
🌈 If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
✍️How to Apply
Please include your resume and a cover letter and tell us one specific way you could use your technical skills to improve a household's energy use under the Amber model.
Our process will generally be as follows:
- A screening interview with our talent team
- A take-home technical challenge that should take no longer than four hours
- A follow up interview with two members of the engineering team
- A culture + final interview with one of our Engineering Managers and Director of Engineering
We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team.
Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia, preferably Melbourne with full working rights!
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.
No recruitment agencies please. We've got this! Thank you.
Salary range is between $120,000 and $145,000 base per annum and is quoted excluding superannuation. All roles at Amber include employee stock options over and above the base salary and superannuation.