Staff Engineer, Web Applications

Position Overview

At REsurety, our focus is building the analytics engine for the clean energy economy. As a Staff Engineer on the web application team, you will focus on building scalable, data-intensive applications that provide insights into renewable energy markets. You will work with our team's engineers, researchers, and product managers to characterize revenue, risk, and environmental impact and contribute to renewable energy development.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate across scrum teams to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain data-intensive web applications
• Enable a clean user experience that simplifies and streamlines customer workflows
• Leverage our analytics engine to build powerful visualizations into our web platform
• Troubleshoot and conduct root cause analysis for production issues; promptly escalate defects to the engineering team
• Partner with product and engineering managers to ensure technical requirements are well-understood, well-scoped, and accurately implemented
• Work with the scrum team and product managers to elaborate epics into stories and tasks
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and understand new technologies, evangelize modern software engineering practices, and continuously develop solutions to enhance the system's performance and scalability
• Help provide a safe environment for engineers to take risks
• Conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or closely related equivalent education
• 10+ years of experience developing software in a professional environment
• 7+ years of experience building data-intensive web applications
• Extensive hands-on experience and understanding of: 
  • Architecting and building interfaces and API-driven applications using a modern SPA framework and its ecosystem 
  • Experience in a SPA framework, such as Vue.JS, Angular, or React, is required, but we prefer experience with Vue.JS
  • HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Typescript
  • State management patterns (e.g., Flux, Redux) and asynchronous programming
  • RESTful APIs and asynchronous data fetching
  • Experience with data visualization libraries
• Experience processing and transferring large datasets. Ability to evaluate data processing technologies and solutions (i.e., batching, streaming, warehousing) depending on system needs and capabilities
• Proficiency with at least one backend software development language. Python is strongly preferred (Java is also acceptable, but our platform is coded in Python)
• Strong background in API design, including concurrency programming, RESTful service implementation, versioning, isolation, and microservice architectures
• Extensive experience deploying and scaling software in a cloud platform. AWS is preferred (GCP, Azure acceptable)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on large-scale enterprise-level SaaS products
• Experience working with data warehouse and computation technologies. e.g. Snowflake, Spark.
• Experience maintaining high-availability production systems
• Familiarity with Docker and/or other build tools

Details:

• Location: Boston, MA
• Our organization works on a hybrid model. We are in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at our downtown Boston building, remote optional on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Company Overview

REsurety is a mission-driven organization dedicated to accelerating the world’s transition to a zero-carbon future. We provide software and services to support both the financial and sustainability goals of clean energy buyers, sellers, and investors. Our software offers data-driven insights at various stages of the project lifecycle from initial exploration to portfolio management. Our services leverage our domain expertise and deliver solutions tailored to the unique needs of our customers. 

We are a small team with a big impact! Our culture is open and collaborative.  We expect excellence from our team members and reward it with high ownership and flexibility.  If you’re a high-achiever with a passion for clean energy, we want to hear from you.

Company Values & Principles

At REsurety, we value the skills of execution, creativity & ownership, commercial focus, and teamwork, and we help and encourage all team members to develop these skills while at REsurety.

Our values also shape our culture and act as the foundation for our principles. Like all great companies, we strive to hire the best and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive company where team members feel engaged, valued, and supported. What is special about REsurety, though, is how much we:

• Share information openly, broadly and deliberately with each other;
• Encourage ownership by all team members;
• Provide continuous, constructive feedback; and
• Empower all team members to bring their full, authentic self to work.

Learn more about working at REsurety and our benefits information on our Careers page.

REsurety, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.