Staff Engineer
Description
Uplight is creating a new category of energy. We make software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses—including things like smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and even people’s behavior—to generate, shift, or save energy to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable. This creates clean energy capacity that can be used by the power grid instead of burning more fossil fuels. Our solutions accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.
How you will make an impact:
We are searching for a disciplined Staff Software Engineer with back-end interest and expertise who is passionate about changing the way millions of people use energy. You’ll work within the Product Engineering department to build and improve our platform to deliver flexible and creative solutions to our utility partners and end users. You’ll be a part of developing a robust architecture to manage massive amounts of data and leveraging it to deliver a compelling experience to users across our platforms. And you’ll work on a great team with excellent benefits.
What you will contribute:
- Be excited to work with talented, committed people in a fast-paced environment
- Be passionate about energy availability and making a difference in the world
- Love developing great software -- some of your proudest moments involve GitHub
- Be capable of prioritizing your work to adhere to a deliverable schedule and ensure successful delivery that exceeds expectations
- Have a strong eye for detail and quality of your code
- Not be afraid to dig into hard problems, and enjoy experimenting to come up with simple, elegant solutions
- Be interested in putting your ideas forward for collaboration and team work with like-minded developers and architects across the business
What you bring to Uplight:
- You are an experienced engineer – You have 7+ years of professional experience designing and implementing scalable backend architecture
- You’ll work with a globally distributed set of engineering teams and help coordinate their technical work to achieve impactful results for our customers that also help serve our business in sustainable ways
- You’ll actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
- Lead high profile initiatives/projects from inception to completion. This includes working closely with PMs on definition, prioritization, and overall project execution
- Collaborate with key stakeholders – including Product Managers, Sales Engineers, Implementation Engineers, and Program/Project Managers
- Work collaboratively in an Agile/Scrum team to plan and execute at high velocity, and across teams throughout the organization to reuse existing components and architect shared functionality
- Experience with the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, C/C++, Objective C, Python, JavaScript)
- Experience with cloud-based architectures, development, deployment, and deployment automation
- You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to product managers, designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
- You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
- Experience in back-end development – you can understand and build flexible and scalable backend systems to meet the emerging needs of the business
- Proven track record applying industry security best practices to application and system development
- Excels in DevOps, engineers and automates CI/CD pipelines for seamless, independent deployments, advises in refactoring design to improve performance and deployment efficiency, drives devops best practices transforming manual processes into automated workflows
- BS in Computer Science / Engineering, or demonstrable industry experience
Bonus points:
- Previous energy industry experience
- Experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake, ETL and data pipelines
- Experience with Enterprise IT systems and Electronic Data Interchange
- Experience with cloud infrastructure automation such as Terraform, cloudformation or similar
- Solid experience with setting up developer flow and developer experience with automation
- You work on the command line confidently and are familiar with all the goodies that the linux toolkit can provide
- You are a Git guru and revel in collaborative workflows
- You have experience in public speaking events
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women, marginalized genders and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Uplight we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Why Join Uplight in Leading the Fight Against Climate Change?
At Uplight, we're not just offering a job – we're offering a chance to be part of the solution to one of the world's biggest challenges. As a certified B Corporation, we're deeply committed to both social and environmental responsibility. Here's why you should join our team of passionate Uplighters:
- Make a Meaningful Impact: Your work directly impacts our mission of decarbonization and building a more sustainable future.
- Grow Your Career: We offer ample advancement opportunities, robust learning and development programs, and a supportive team environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.
- Thrive: We offer comprehensive benefits, including flexible time off, generous parental leave, a wellness stipend, and work flexibility to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
- Belong to an Inclusive Community: We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, empowered, and heard. Our Employee Resource Groups offer opportunities to connect with colleagues who share your interests and backgrounds.
- Be Part of a Growing Movement: Join a team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future. We offer a collaborative environment where your ideas are valued and your contributions recognized. Together, we can build a brighter tomorrow.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefits package and other perks, visituplight.com/careers
Salary Range: $160,212 to $173,000 USD + bonus
Application Deadline: May 15, 2026
In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate annual base compensation range is listed above. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.
Uplight provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religion (including head coverings), age, sex, national origin, disability status (including neurodivergence), genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, neurotypicality, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.