Senior Software Engineer – Internal Tools

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 are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on our internal engineering ecosystem. You will join a focused, collaborative team that designs and builds high-leverage tools and automation that directly multiply the productivity of our cross-atlantic teams, ensuring we succeed in our mission.

Responsibilities:-

You will take charge of a diverse range of responsibilities, which may include:

• Developing software tools to manage internal processes such as production lines, hardware procurement or component design 
• Work across multiple teams in the organisation to gather requirements, architect and deliver end-to-end software tools and cloud services used by the Lunar teams
• Define data access patterns and storage models for internal databases and processes, including the company Data Lake, to enhance their efficiency

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 required skills:

• Good experience in developing Python
• Good experience using relational databases
• Good experience using infrastructure as code
• Experience with Data Warehousing and Data Lakes
• Experience integrating internal systems and processes with third-party APIs
• A proven track record of at least 3 years’ of developing and architecting software, encompassing the full lifecycle from prototype to production.
• Ability to gather requirements from non-technical users and use them to drive the development of end-to-end solutions.

Good to have:

• Good experience with backend TypeScript or another statically typed language
• Direct experience with functional programming
• Good experience with Postgres
• Good experience using CloudFormation and AWS
• Interest in the energy sector or IoT

You should be: 

• Happy working in a small, fast-moving team, in which your initiative and contributions can have a big impact
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently
• Comfortable collaborating with colleagues in the Pacific Time zone

Joining us gives you:

• Competitive salary and stock options package
• Private Medical Insurance scheme through BUPA (medical history disregarded);
• A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
• 5% employer contributions pension matching
• A budget for work-related training of £1,000 per financial year and an allowance of 4 training days
• Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit
• Access to Spill – Mental Health Support platform
• Enhanced Maternity + Paternity Pay
• 25 days annual holiday entitlement + 8 Bank Holidays
• Flexible start and finish times, fully remote working or hybrid depending on preferences

Location: This role can be fully remote inside the UK. Our office in London Liverpool Street will remain available for any employees who wish to use them on any days.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, age or social background. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply.