Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Lunar Energy, a company transforming home power with all-electric products, as a Staff Software Engineer in the UK. You will build platform infrastructure for real-time data processing using AWS, solve optimization problems with machine learning, and design APIs and UIs using functional programming. This role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, proficiency in strongly typed languages, and experience with IoT devices and Unix systems. Lunar Energy offers a competitive salary, stock options, private medical insurance, pension matching, life assurance, training budget, and remote work flexibility.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience in strongly typed languages, such as Typescript, Rust or others
• Experience working with IoT devices in the cloud
• Working experience with Unix operating systems
• You enjoy working in a smaller team where you can see the huge impact of your work
• You value learning and approach new information with an open mind, willing to reconsider your opinions when presented with compelling evidence
• You are autonomous and enjoy managing your own workload and deadlines

Responsibilities

• Build the required platform infrastructure to ingest and process big streams of data in real time, using AWS primitives
• Solve complex optimisation problems, using machine learning and other often bespoke algorithms
• Design and implement the business logic to expose our functionality via APIs and UI interfaces, using functional programming and serverless computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the functional programming paradigm
• Experience using AWS, serverless technologies and infrastructure as code
• Experience with Machine Learning in Python
• Professional experience in the renewable energy sector, or an interest in green tech

Benefits

• A competitive salary and stock options package
• Access to a private Medical Insurance scheme through BUPA (medical history disregarded)
• A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
• 5% employer contributions pension matching
• Life assurance & income protection schemes (available after 12 months of service)
• A budget of £1,000 per financial year for work-related training and an allowance of 4 training days
• Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit
• A £200 bonus upon joining for remote work setup
• Access to Spill - a Mental Health Support platform
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
• 25 days of annual holiday entitlement plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Fully remote working within the UK