Job Description
Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by the idea of a smarter, cleaner, more connected future—and the possibilities that will bring to the world and to the 7.3 million customers we serve.
Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes. More information is available at www.nrg.com or www.vivint.com. Connect with NRG and Vivint on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.
The Role:
The Ecosystem team within the Vivint Innovation Center is looking for a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform team. You will be working on experiences to support our world-class smart home solutions. We are looking to grow our team of exceptional engineers. Join us and use your passion for engineering cool solutions to create the world's best smart home experience.
What you will do:
- Collaborate closely with software engineers representing other disciplines to build amazing experiences from top to bottom.
- Leverage your technical expertise and interpersonal skills to help the team make great implementation decisions together, including active participation in code reviews and other software lifecycle activities.
- Work in a fast-paced, self-directed, agile environment.
- Research and evaluate new technologies and tools.
- Contribute to new feature development, maintenance, and architectural activities.
- Actively participate in the Platform guild with fellow engineers to develop better organization-wide development practices and solve hard problems.
- Participate in a quarterly "Innovation Week" and work on innovative projects of your choice.
- Put smart home products in your own home and experience your work product firsthand.
Who you will work with:
You will be a central part of a cross-functional delivery team focused on building customer experiences through integrations with our energy service providers. You will work closely with product management, program management, QA, UX designers and others. The position resides within the Ecosystem team. We are aligned in priorities and goals, and strong collaboration and employee satisfaction is a hallmark of our efforts. We succeed and fail together. You will find team members to be incredibly bright, driven, helpful, and supportive.
What we're looking for:
- Experience with well-known design patterns
- Experience with queueing, caching, persistence, performance, and concurrency techniques
- Experience contributing to scalable, high-availability, low-latency, distributed solutions
- Experience building RESTful services
- Experience with microservice architecture with gRPC
- Experience with any of the following is a plus: Python, Go, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS, Oauth2, security and data privacy
- 5+ years relevant work experience
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Skills that are highly desired, but you can learn them on the job:
- Agile development processes (Scrum)
- Mentoring fellow mobile engineers
- Driving architectural changes within an organization
- IoT products and services (security, home automation)
WORKING CONDITIONS:
This job operates in a professional office environment.
Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about:
- Free daily lunch and drinks on site
- Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
- Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
- Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
- Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Employee Resource Groups
WORKING CONDITIONS:
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
SAFETY:
We enforce a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements. Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public. Employee must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.
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