### Our Mission
SPAN develops products that accelerate the rapid adoption of renewable energy
in the home. The flagship SPAN Smart Panel is the first true evolution for the
traditional home electric panel, harnessing enhanced technology for metering,
monitoring, and control. An expanded product suite of intelligent, integrated
solutions radically lowers the cost and complexity of energy
upgrades–including solar, batteries and EVs–empowering homeowners to be
active, resilient and informed players in the energy market.
**The Team**
R&D Infrastructure at SPAN is a multi-skilled team able to create solutions
for a wide variety of technological needs. Our skillset includes dedicated
electrical, mechanical, fabrication, and software expertise. This enables
rapid development of prototypes, experiment platforms, and hardware/software
automation/monitoring frameworks. We value creative approaches to solving
problems, and encourage building up new skills along the way. Our work
accelerates SPAN R&D, and helps many other teams in hardware and software
engineering on a daily basis.
### **The Role**
As a software engineer on the R&D Infrastructure Team, you will craft mission-
critical internal platforms enabling control, monitoring, and analysis of
various experimental and test efforts. Your creative solutions will weave
sensors, metrics, and logs into an accessible framework for capturing and
understanding physical measurements. While exploring concepts from
microcontroller analog sampling to cloud services, your work will have a daily
impact on Span’s current and future products.
**Potential Projects:**
* Develop and maintain flexible internally-facing web and backend applications for essential system management and fleet service tasks
* Assist with development of reliable data collection, processing, exploration, and presentation for long-term hardware test monitoring and alerts
* Assist with fast-response control and monitoring software for prototyping and short-term hardware/software research efforts
* Provide general assistance to other teams where cross-functional knowledge is needed
* Develop useful interfaces and drivers for physical test hardware and integrate incoming data sources with our monitoring and analysis platforms
### **About You**
**Required Qualifications**
* Professional experience developing, deploying, and maintaining applications written in Python (required), C, Rust, Node/Typescript, and/or related technologies
* Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining web and database applications
* Experience developing functional front ends for internally-facing applications
* Experience building containerized applications
* Experience setting up and managing Linux-based systems, complete familiarity with common administration tasks, shell commands, package management etc.
* Able to collaborate effectively with coworkers in shared codebases, including competency with software versioning and documentation systems
**Bonus Qualifications**
* Familiarity with deploying and managing cloud-based services (including user management, security, permissions, roles)
* 2+ years of professional experience with a web frontend framework (React, Angular, jQuery, etc)
* Experience implementing low-level interfaces and protocols (serial, RS485, Modbus, etc)
* Experience with publish-subscribe communication methods such as MQTT
* Familiarity with embedded device firmware development (small Linux devices, microcontrollers)
* Experience with industrial devices and protocols, laboratory test gear and protocols
* Familiarity with electrical and electronic system concepts, high and low voltage wiring, understanding electrical measurements
The U.S. base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $210,000 plus
benefits, equity and variable compensation for Sales-related roles. This range
represents SPAN’s good faith estimate of competitively-priced salary for the
role based on national, real-time industry data from companies of a similar
growth stage. This range reflects minimum and maximum new hire salaries for
the role across US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined
by location and individual factors including relevant skills, experience and
education or training. This range correlates to the relative level of the
candidate we believe we need for the role and may require an adjustment for
candidates of a different level.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the location
this role is based during the hiring process.
### Life at SPAN
Headquartered in San Francisco’s vibrant SoMa neighborhood, we are an eclectic
group of creative thinkers who value open communication, teamwork, and a ‘make
it happen’ approach to addressing complex challenges.
SPAN embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are
committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds,
perspectives, and skills.
We’re hiring talented individuals who are driven by success and are passionate
about shaping the future of renewable energy. If that sounds like you, we’d
love for you to consider joining the rapidly growing team at SPAN.
**The Perks:**
⚡ Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed
company
⚡ Comprehensive benefits (including medical; dental, vision, life and
disability insurance)
⚡ Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public
transit
⚡ Strong focus on teambuilding and company culture (events, meet-ups, clubs)
⚡ Flexible hours and unlimited PTO