Full Stack Software Engineer, Sunsave
£50-70k
+ Equity
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The UK’s first solar subscription
Job no longer available
The UK’s first solar subscription
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£50-70k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years programming experience shipping code to production
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, building React UIs and/or NodeJS APIs
- Working knowledge of Git
- Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM environment
Desirable
- Experience working with AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, EKS)
- Experience working with a CI/CD pipeline
What the job involves
- Build and shape SunSave products using a modern technology stack, enabling our growth
- Help plan and deliver projects, participating in technical discussions
- Gather requirements and interact with designers and customer/installation operations
- Use data to guide product and engineering decisions to focus on what matters most
- Learn about new technologies and the energy industry
Application process
- Exploratory call with Head of Engineering to discuss your background and answer any of your initial questions about the role/company (30 mins)
- Technical test to evaluate your technical skills and get an idea of how you go about solving a task. We encourage collaboration in this so think of this more as a pair programming exercise where you take the wheel, and we will send you this ahead of time so there's no surprises (1 hr)
- Architecture session to assess your knowledge of distributed systems and how they work (45 mins)
- Culture interview with a co-founder to discuss experiences and motivations for working at SunSave, how you approach certain scenarios and what you’ll bring to the role (45 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Sunsave, founded in 2022, is on a mission to make solar energy and battery storage accessible to the mass market by removing the upfront costs and providing a subscription service that takes care of everything - from installation to maintenance - so that more UK households can save on their energy bills.
The model is designed to remove the biggest barrier to installing rooftop solar and storage - the ~£10k typical upfront cost and long payback period - allowing customers to save on their energy bills from day one. This is wrapped into a hassle-free service, with installation, monitoring, and maintenance included, which also enables households to sell excess electricity and participate in the smart grid.
The green company has already attracted the attention of blue-chip VC funds such as Norrsken, the UK Department of Energy, and household name entrepreneurs including Michael Spencer and Stuart Rose, raising ~£11M in funding and growing to ~30 FTEs. Sunsave is the first company to bring the tied and tested solar subscription business model to the UK and in doing so, will build the next green unicorn.
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"We are literally starting from scratch, which means there is a lot of manual work that needs to be automated by building processes, systems and..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2023
$7m
SEED
Jan 2022
$6.1m
SEED
Total funding: $13.1m
Company benefits
- Private health insurance
- Mental health support
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly wellness budget (Juno)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Team social events (remote & live)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) + extra holidays for long service
Company values
- Outcome not ego
- Empowered to thrive
- Act on your curiosity
- Strength in diversity
- Build trust through transparency and communication
- Live your mission
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Founders
Alick Dru
(Co-Founder)ex VC Investor at SoftBank Vision Fund, ex Strategy Consultant at Strategy&, ex Founder at Spires, ex Founder at Tripr. Ex Oxford University.
Ben Graves
(Co-Founder)Ex PE Investor at EMK, ex Strategy Consultant at BCG, ex Customer Success at Triptease. Ex Oxford University.
Diversity & Inclusion at Sunsave
Juliet Mance (Head of Sales)
- One of our core values as a young start up is that there's strength in diversity.
- We believe that a team with different perspectives, backgrounds and life- experiences will always outperform a homogenous one.
- We believe in creating a team that actively celebrates and benefits from all types difference - including, race, gender, sexuality & neurodiversity.
- We're committed to recruiting a team that doesn't look, feel and think the same way we do. And we have formal processes and measures in place to hold ourselves to account (at every level). This is to try and ensure that our values aren't just things written down on a Notion page somewhere (sadly many of us have experienced workplaces like that!), but are actually values that we live and strive to demonstrate daily.
- Practical ways we show our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive team are:
- Flexibility of working hours, location and benefits to ensure employment suits different circumstances
- Enhanced parental leave
- Utilising software to test all job descriptions for unconscious bias
- Recruitment processes that are inclusive of our wider team and include an objectively measured skills based assessment wherever appropriate
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