Everything we do at Sunrun is driven by a determination to transform the way we power our lives. We know that starts at the individual employee level. We strive to foster an environment you can thrive in through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Sunrun’s Pricing team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help lead the development of our next-generation pricing systems. Sunrun is the leading residential rooftop solar provider, and our Pricing engines are at the core of making it cost-effective for customers to join the clean energy revolution.
The solar power and home electrification industry is rapidly evolving, with frequent changes to incentive programs and exciting new products coming to market regularly.
Some of the challenges you’ll help us solve are:
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How do we build flexibility into our systems to account for the highly dynamic nature of residential solar power?
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How do we help customers better understand how Sunrun solar power systems benefit the customer and the planet?
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How do we create price commitments that our customers can rely on in the face of supply chain disruptions?
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Help deliver new products to customers.
As our ideal candidate, you’ll excel at creating high-quality software systems. You quickly understand complex business problems and develop simple, innovative software solutions to solve them. You think beyond individual features to improve performance, reliability, resilience, and flexibility. You ask questions and help improve the customer experience.
You bring your unique perspective on Sunrun’s customers to the team and use it to inform the direction not just of your work but of your fellow engineers. You love to teach as much as you love to learn, and always remember that there’s another human being on the other end of every conversation, discussion, or disagreement.
Sunrun is growing, opportunities for Solar are brighter than ever, and we are excited for you to grow your career with us.
Interested but worried about making the transition to solar? No problem! We have some of the industry's most experienced solar and energy professionals, and we’re happy to teach.
Responsibilities
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This position will be on one of several teams that build Sunrun’s software for rooftop solar, as such you will be responsible for:
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Embodying Sunrun’s corporate values of human centricity, integrity, curiosity, passion, courage, and impact.
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Promoting high-quality communication and collaboration on our cross-functional team.
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Building a deep and nuanced understanding of the residential solar domain and how Sunrun’s business model is differentiated in the industry.
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Designing and writing software optimized for readability, maintainability, and testability.
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Understanding when or when not to use industry-standard design patterns or practices.
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Applying a systems thinking mindset to your work.
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Maintaining operational stability of software systems from development through to production.
Qualifications
Technical Skills Needed
Candidates are expected to be able to apply the following skills on day 1, and thus should have strong applicable experience:
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Familiarity with algorithms and data structures
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3+ years of experience delivering and maintaining production software in a structured language, such as C++, C#, or Java
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Experience developing complex distributed systems and operating them in production
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Familiarity with microservice architecture
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Experience designing and developing APIs
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Applying the practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
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Experience with building performant backend applications
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Driving the development process with test automation.
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Applying high-quality security practices.
?Bonus Technical Skills
Candidates will not need to apply these skills on day 1, but they may need to learn them over time with Sunrun support. Practical knowledge and experience in the following areas is a bonus:
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Experience developing systems in Kotlin
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Experience building native Lambdas with GraalVM
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Designing and implementing data persistence in an appropriate database
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Maintaining deployment pipelines that work with infrastructure as code tools, in particular GitHub Actions and CDK.
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Experience developing with Rules Engine
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Familiarity with Docker, Serverless technologies.