POSITION SUMMARY

Inspire’s Technology team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Consumers Apps & Services team, responsible for building Mobile, Web, and Services that focus on delivering customer value. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be a key decision-maker in the architecture and implement resilient, highly available systems. You will be an advocate, and a champion, for best API practices across the organization, and will partner closely with Product and Design to deliver features in a world-class utility management service.

THE SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER HAS FOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Utility Integrations: Leverage 3rd party APIs and web scraping technologies to extract consumer data from energy utilities.
2. Billing Experience: Design, implement, and support a billing experience for Inspire’s members using Stripe or similar payment vendor integration.
3. API Standards: Help define standards for consumer APIs across Inspire and evangelize best practices with engineers on various teams.
4. Product Collaboration: Work closely with Product to understand the business requirements and collaborate early and often to deliver the right value / effort tradeoff.

DESIRED TRAITS

• Takes Ownership: Feels deep ownership over tasks and systems, to ensure we build sustainable products
• Endlessly Curious: Always learning about new technologies, industry trends, etc. and applying them when applicable to technology stack and process.
• Shows Strong Leadership: Drives technology platform forward, and can mentor and level-up others on the team to build a world-class APIs
• Works Collaboratively: Works well cross-functionally with Product, Design, Marketing, Data Science, BD, and others to ensure alignment

EXPERIENCE

• Must Have
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar, or equivalent education that provides a strong foundation in computer science (data structures, algorithms, compilers, processors, etc.) 
  • 4+ years of professional experience building building APIs, evented/queued systems, and other business related systems
  • Strong understanding of HTTP, REST standards, backward compatibility, and other best practices for building consumer APIs 
  • Passionate about technology and interested in solving tough problems
• Nice to Have
  • Experience implementing billing systems using payment vendor integrations such as stripe
  • Experience with GO
  • Experience with javascript, node
  • Experience with web scraping technology, such as puppeteer
  • Experience with databases and ORMs