\nRunwise is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join one of the largest and fastest-growing energy tech companies in the US. Runwise has offices in New York and Boston but is a remote-first product/engineering company, and has been since its creation. \n\nRunwise (www.runwise.com) is a fast-paced, customer-focused climate-tech startup that controls and runs the key energy systems (heating, water, etc…) in 7500+ buildings throughout the US. Runwise’s unique hardware and software service significantly reduces energy usage, substantially lowering costs and carbon output. As of today, Runwise’s technology takes the equivalent of 80,000 cars worth of carbon emissions off the road each year.\n\nAs a Senior Backend End Engineer at Runwise you will be responsible for helping design, test, and implement the core software that both embed on our controls in 7500+ buildings and the serverless cloud infrastructure that process & analyze billions of data points coming in from these buildings.  you will have the opportunity to help a variety of property companies from large well known owners (like Related, Blackstone, Douglas Elliman, Lefrak) to individual co-ops and condos effectively run their heating, cooling, electric, and water systems more efficiently while making tenants more comfortable.\n\nResponsibilities will include, but are not limited to:\n\n\n* Being a core contributor to our core Golang app and infrastructure. Our primary serverless Go architecture powers our web, mobile web, and native mobile iOS and Android apps, as well as our APIs which interface with and process significant volumes of data from our building computers and sensor networks \n\n* Writing code that efficiently and intelligently processes billions of data points per year \n\n\n\n\nWho you are:\n\n\n* You have 3+ years of hands on experience writing in Golang\n\n* You have 5+ years of hands on experience as an engineer \n\n* You are passionate about building new products\n\n* You have extensive experience with AWS services like Dynamodb, SQS, AWS Lambda, EC2, Cloudformation\n\n* Some experience with Python is a plus\n\n* Experience building embedded software architecture\n\n* You have experience in mentoring and coaching junior engineers\n\n* You are passionate about working with systems at scale\n\n\n\n\nAnnual Compensation: $140,000-$190,000\n\nWhat you believe: \n\n\n* No job is too small.\n\n* Sincerity builds trust.\n\n* Setbacks fuel progress.\n\n* Efficiency is vital.\n\n\n\n\nBenefits:\n\n\n* Medical, dental, and vision insurance\n\n* HSA & FSA options\n\n* Paid Parental Leave\n\n* Access to Talkspace & Health Advocate\n\n* Flexible PTO\n\n* Commuter Benefits\n\n* 401K\n\n* Company paid life insurance\n\n* Voluntary supplemental life insurance\n\n* Free in-office lunch on Wednesdays\n\n* Hybrid work environment\n\n* Summer Fridays\n\n* Monthly L&D Series\n\n* Employee Resource Groups (e.g. DEIB Committee, Run Club)\n\n\n\n\nThis is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-growing company and create a career path beyond this initial role. You will be surrounded by talented people where you will learn about real estate and software/managed services sales at a very fast growing tech company, whilst having a tangible impact on reducing carbon emissions across the country. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Serverless, Cloud, Mobile, Senior, Junior, Android, Sales, Golang, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City, New York, United States

IMPORTANT:\n \n1. This job is to work for a US company. An advanced level of English is a non-negotiable requirement. Please refrain from applying if this is not your case.\n \n2. This job is remote but if you’re not located in the region mentioned in the post’s title, do not continue. Your application won’t be reviewed. Please apply to the job posting for your country/region of residence.\nIf you’re in Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad, and Tobago, or Venezuela, we’re sorry but we can’t consider your application at this moment. #LI-Remote\n \n3. To be considered for this position, resumes must be sent in English\n\nInterviewing for a new company is a serious time commitment for all parties involved. Please take the time to read this and thoughtfully consider if we would be a good fit for one another.  No contractors or agencies. Seriously.\n\nAbout Very\n\nVery has been a remote-first company since 2011 which has allowed us to develop an amazing remote working experience and to have a remote office culture that exceeds that of any traditional on-site office.\n\nWe’ve built a collaborative, tight-knit team that thrives, whether we’re hanging out in person at our annual retreat or coordinating work across time zones. The results show that we’re doing something right. In 2020, we were named one of Inc’s Best Workplaces, Parity.org's Best Companies for Women to Advance List, and Fatherly’s Best Places to Work for Dads.\n\nAt Very we are focused on delivering world-class IoT hardware, software, and smart product engineering services to our clients. We have a wide array of clients from enterprise-level clients such as Vizio, Clear and iHeart Radio to small greenfield start-ups. Whatever size company our goal remains the same - Deliver world-class IoT services and solutions and truly partner with our clients to ensure overall product success.\n\n\nAbout this Role\n\nVery is looking to hire an experienced software engineer specializing in native mobile development to work across a wide variety of projects and technology stacks.\n\nAs a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable and well tested code. At Very, teaching and learning is at the core of what we do. Whether through pair programming, workshops, conferences or other cross project collaboration we expect every engineer to continue advancing and developing their skills.\n\nResponsibilities:\n- Execute end-to-end software development and deployment in an agile environment\n- Provide technical guidance to other team members\n- Influence work of multiple teams relating to overall engineering group objectives \n- Drive continuous process and technology improvements\n- Lead production monitoring and resolution impacts\n- Own and operate large sections of software and systems\n- Partner with Product to spec out the technical aspects of a feature from inception through delivery\n- Guide software design and delivery through influence and education\n- Write acceptance, integration and unit tests\n- Coach and mentor other engineers\n- Conduct architecture discussions when necessary\n- Participate in recruiting of candidates and improvement of the overall interview process\n- Support sales and pre-sales engineering work to ensure Very Client fit\n\nAt Very we do not have just one technology stack as we work on interesting problems, not specific technologies. However, we do have some preferred stacks and proficiency in two of them is required:\n\nBackend Web / Embedded Technologies\nElixir: Phoenix / Nerves\nPython: Django / Flask / Serverless / Scientific Python\nRuby: Rails\nJavaScript: NodeJS Backends\nKotlin/Java: Web Backends\nC/C++: Zephyr RTOS / BareMetal\n\nFrontend Web / Mobile Technologies\nTypeScript: React / React Native\nSwift/Objective C: iOS Native\nKotlin/Java: Android Native\n\nWe value well-tested, reusable code and expect our engineers to be as good of practitioners as they are leaders and teachers.\n\n\nWhat You’ll Be Working On\n\nWe take customer success extremely seriously here at Very. As a senior engineer, you will be partnering with our clients to bring their products to market. You will be utilizing one or more of the above mentioned technology stacks coupled with a cloud provider to deliver an end-to-end solution for our customers. \n\nEach project is slightly different and can contain any combination of hardware, firmware, web / mobile frontend as well as an API backend/cloud architecture. We follow best practices such as Infrastructure as Code, well thought out and designed CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and other testing best practices, and always keep an eye on scalability. \n\nWe remain as agile as possible working on delivering a vertical slice of all involved layers as early as possible so we can iterate and demonstrate progress. Your role on a project will be focused on your area of expertise coupled with your learning goals.\n\n\nQualifications\n\nRequired\nUnfortunately, applicants who do not meet these criteria will not be considered.\n\n* Lead-level Software Engineering experience: Can guide a team to successful outcomes by architecting overall solutions, ensuring that work across the team meets a high standard, and helping the team focus on efficient solutions to business problems.  Their quality of work and overall approach to problem-solving means that review of their work is mostly for the sake of discussion/clarity, rather than to ensure quality. \n* Lead-level native mobile engineering experience: Has developed from ent-to-end and published multiple Android and/or iOS apps\n* Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience\n* Strong experience with Android App and SDK development experience with Java and Kotlin\n* Experience delivering and supporting  Android applications\n* Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle required\n* Good understanding of cross-platform app development\n* Experience with using RESTful Web Services with applications\n* Experience building web and API services, using remote data via REST and JSON\n* Experience in object orientated design and programming, design patterns, and related frameworks\n* Demonstrated expertise in continuous integration/delivery/deployment\n\nNice-to-haves\n* Experience with Docker and Kubernetes\n* Cloud development experience with AWS\n\nContract\n\nYour contract with Very will be as an independent contractor for an indefinite period.\nThis type of contract carries some additional responsibilities for you - you'll have to save some money to take care of taxes and you'll have to pay for public social security (Health and Pension) out of pocket.\n \nThat being said, we're confident that our competitive compensation and benefits package (see below) will still mean that you are happy with your take-home amount at the end of each month. For more information about Very and the contract type, see here.\n\nHow You’ll Be Compensated\n\nBase compensation\nDepending on your skill and experience, you can expect a monthly salary between USD $7,900 and $11,100 upon joining the company.  We also offer performance bonuses, a generous maternity/paternity leave policy, and numerous other employee benefits (including eliminating the stress and cost of commuting each day)\n\nWe also offer world-class perks:\n-$1,000 annual Healthcare Stipend (to be used towards Health insurance premium)\n-Paid Parental Leave\n-Continuing Education Stipend - After 1 year of Employment  ($3000/ year for learning and 100% of the costs if you’re speaking at an event)\n- Home Office Stipend ($1000 per year for your workstation / office)\n- $125/mo Monthly Communications Stipend (Can be used towards Cell Phone Data Plan, WiFi Plan, VOIP, VPN)\n- PTO / Sick Time\n- Variable Compensation based upon performance\n- MacBook Pro (Provided)\n- Personalized ESL coaching and access to an AI-powered adaptive platform to take your English to the next level\n\nAdditional Perks (could vary)\n- Paid trip to somewhere in the World for the annual global company retreat.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ads, Mobile, Excel, Non Tech, Salesforce, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Engineer, Analyst, Microsoft, Marketing, Travel, Director, Cloud, Software, Ecommerce, Teaching, Video, Education, Python, Legal, JavaScript, Amazon, Junior, Stats, HR, Finance, React, Java, Serverless and Android jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLatin America