<div><b>⚡About Amber</b></div><div><br></div><div>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 <b>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.</b> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly <b>(over 50k customers)</b>. We have also <b>recently expanded into licensing our core technology</b> to utilities overseas, including a <b>partnership with <a href="http://e.on/">E.ON</a> Next in the UK</b>.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Amber is backed by top Australian and international investors</b> including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners (UK/Europe based), and <a href="http://e.on/">E.ON</a> Next.</div><div><br></div><div>We are <b>scaling rapidly</b> and <b>you’d be joining a team of over 180</b> committed to <b>building a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture</b> as we transform a major industry.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries</b> cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $19/kWh, and <b>Amber for EVs</b> enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. <b>In 2025</b>, we will push this even further with our new <b>vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology</b>.</div><div><br></div><div><b>💻 About the role</b></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Want to help improve the environment by shifting Australia and the world’s energy usage towards renewables?</div><div><br></div><div>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 &gt;$100 in an afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:</b></div><div><b> - Home automation integrations</b> (to batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability</div><div><b> - Mobile &amp; Web apps</b> for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage</div><div> - A <b>pricing and billing engine</b> for real time energy pricing</div><div> - The <b>marketing site and associated tools</b> to drive customer growth</div><div> - The <b>tech stack</b> is <b>React Native mobile app</b>, some <b>React web frontends</b>, and a <b>Serverless Lambda backend on AWS</b>. We’re using <b>Typescript top to bottom</b>, and <b>Apollo GraphQL</b> sits in the middle. </div><div> - We keep our data in <b>DynamoDB</b> and <b>Postgres</b>, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.</div><div><br></div><div><b>You can learn more about our tech stack at </b><a href="https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric">https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><br><br><h3>Qualifications and Skills</h3><ul><li>You have a <b>positive mindset</b>: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do</li><li>A <b>minimum of 5 or more years of commercial software development experience</b> in either Web or Mobile environments</li><li><b>Past experience mentoring or leading software engineers</b></li><li>Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement</li><li>Experience with languages sharing features with <b>Typescript is also a plus (such as JavaScript, C#, Go, or similar)</b></li><li><b>We favour generalists</b> who can be flexible across the stack, but are particularly interested in engineers with deep skills and experience across both frontend and backend. It would be a bonus if you have skills in <b>CDK &amp; Postgres databases</b></li><li><b>Strong verbal and written communication skills</b> built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential</li></ul><h3>Your responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack in the areas of your speciality</li><li>Flexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting your team when they need it</li><li>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</li><li>Mentor and support other members of the engineering team</li><li>Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production</li><li>Take high level ownership of technical design and project delivery</li></ul><h3>Benefits</h3><ul><li>We’re committed to building a <b>diverse and inclusive workplace</b> and a <b>great culture</b> of people who love coming to work to build a better world.</li><li>You’d be a part of a <b>rapidly growing team of over 180</b> with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.</li><li>Be part of a <b>growing technology start-up</b> that will shape the future of household and grid energy use.</li><li><b>Flexible working hours</b> with provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD.</li><li><b>Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.</b></li><li>An <b>external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)</b> for mental health support.</li><li><b>Competitive salary and share options in Amber.</b></li><li><b>Annual Learning &amp; Development budget</b> to support your personal growth.</li></ul><br><div><b>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. </b></div><div><br></div><div><b>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.</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">🌈 </span><b style="font-size:16px;">If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">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.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">✍️</span><b style="font-size:16px;">How to Apply</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">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.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:16px;">Our process will generally be as follows:</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;"> - A screening interview with our talent team</span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;"> - A take-home technical challenge that should take no longer than four hours</span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;"> - A follow up interview with two members of the engineering team</span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;"> - A culture + final interview with one of our Engineering Managers and Director of Engineering</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>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.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia, preferably Melbourne with full working rights!</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>No recruitment agencies please. We've got this! Thank you.</b></div>

<p>Founded in 2017 by Chris Thompson and Dan Adams, Amber gives customers dynamic power prices that change depending on the real wholesale value of energy. Customers can pay less by charging your battery when energy is greener and cheaper as well as earn more by exporting when prices increase.</p>
<p>Combined with Amber's smart tech, solar and battery owners have the power to supercharge their savings, take control of their battery and make their energy work harder for them.</p>
<p>Amber is backed by some of Australia&rsquo;s best accelerators and investors, including EnergyLab (Australia&rsquo;s leading energy accelerator) and Startmate (Australia&rsquo;s leading tech accelerator). Investors include Blackbird, Square Peg, Main Sequence, Commonwealth Bank and Black Sheep Capital.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The company has won Startup Vic&rsquo;s Impact Pitch Night, for the best startup focused on making a positive social impact and been named Victorian Start-up of the Year.</p>

Senior Software Engineer

<div><b>⚡About Amber</b></div><div><br></div><div>Amber is an entirely new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy.&nbsp;We give customers direct access to the real-time <b>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.</b>&nbsp;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.</div><div><br></div><div>We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly&nbsp;<b>(over 50k customers)</b>. We have also&nbsp;<b>recently expanded into licensing our core technology</b>&nbsp;to utilities overseas, including a&nbsp;<b>partnership with <a href="http://e.on/">E.ON</a> Next in the UK</b>.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Amber is backed by top Australian and international investors</b> including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners (UK/Europe based), and <a href="http://e.on/">E.ON</a> Next.</div><div><br></div><div>We&nbsp;are&nbsp;<b>scaling&nbsp;rapidly</b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>you’d&nbsp;be&nbsp;joining&nbsp;a&nbsp;team&nbsp;of&nbsp;over&nbsp;180</b>&nbsp;committed to <b>building a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture</b> as we transform a major industry.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries</b> cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $19/kWh, and <b>Amber for EVs</b> enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. <b>In 2025</b>, we will push this even further with our new <b>vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology</b>.</div><div><br></div><div><b>💻 About the role</b></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Want to help improve the environment by shifting Australia and the world’s energy usage towards renewables?</div><div><br></div><div>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 &gt;$100 in an afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:</b></div><div><b> - Home automation integrations</b>&nbsp;(to batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability</div><div><b> - Mobile &amp; Web apps</b>&nbsp;for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage</div><div> - A&nbsp;<b>pricing and billing engine</b>&nbsp;for real time energy pricing</div><div> - The&nbsp;<b>marketing site and associated tools</b>&nbsp;to drive customer growth</div><div> - The&nbsp;<b>tech stack</b>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<b>React Native mobile app</b>, some&nbsp;<b>React web frontends</b>, and a&nbsp;<b>Serverless Lambda backend on AWS</b>. We’re using&nbsp;<b>Typescript top to bottom</b>, and&nbsp;<b>Apollo GraphQL</b>&nbsp;sits in the middle. </div><div> - We keep our data in&nbsp;<b>DynamoDB</b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Postgres</b>, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.</div><div><br></div><div><b>You can learn more about our tech stack at&nbsp;</b><a href="https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric">https://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><br><br><h3>Qualifications and Skills</h3><ul><li>You have a <b>positive mindset</b>: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do</li><li>A <b>minimum of 5 or more years of commercial software development experience</b> in either Web or Mobile environments</li><li><b>Past experience mentoring or leading software engineers</b></li><li>Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement</li><li>Experience with languages sharing features with <b>Typescript is also a plus (such as JavaScript, C#, Go, or similar)</b></li><li><b>We favour generalists</b> who can be flexible across the stack, but are particularly interested in engineers with deep skills and experience across both frontend and backend. It would be a bonus if you have skills in <b>CDK &amp; Postgres databases</b></li><li><b>Strong verbal and written communication skills</b> built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential</li></ul><h3>Your responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack in the areas of your speciality</li><li>Flexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting your team when they need it</li><li>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</li><li>Mentor and support other members of the engineering team</li><li>Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production</li><li>Take high level ownership of technical design and project delivery</li></ul><h3>Benefits</h3><ul><li>We’re committed to building a&nbsp;<b>diverse and inclusive workplace</b>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<b>great culture</b>&nbsp;of people who love coming to work to build a better world.</li><li>You’d be a part of a <b>rapidly growing team of over 180</b> with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.</li><li>Be part of a&nbsp;<b>growing technology start-up</b>&nbsp;that will shape the future of household and grid energy use.</li><li><b>Flexible working hours</b>&nbsp;with provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD.</li><li><b>Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.</b></li><li>An&nbsp;<b>external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)</b>&nbsp;for mental health support.</li><li><b>Competitive salary and share options in Amber.</b></li><li><b>Annual Learning &amp; Development budget</b>&nbsp;to support your personal growth.</li></ul><br><div><b>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. </b></div><div><br></div><div><b>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.</b></div><div><br></div><div><span>🌈&nbsp;</span><b>If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!</b></div><div><br></div><div><span>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.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>✍️</span><b>How to Apply</b></div><div><br></div><div><span>Please include your resume and a cover letter&nbsp;and tell us one specific way you could use your technical skills to improve a household's energy use under the Amber model.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>Our process will generally be as follows:</b></div><div><br></div><div><span> - A screening interview with our talent team</span></div><div><span> - A take-home technical challenge that should take no longer than four hours</span></div><div><span> - A follow up interview with two members of the engineering team</span></div><div><span> - A culture + final interview with one of our Engineering Managers and Director of Engineering</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>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.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia, preferably Melbourne with full working rights!</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>No recruitment agencies please. We've got this! Thank you.</b></div>

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