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Bright (YC W15) | Full Time | San Francisco Bright is hiring a Software Engineer to help bring solar to developing countries - more here: www.thinkbright.mx/jobs You’ll help build out Bright’s technology – a wide range of projects, including: - Building an automated solar monitoring and alerting system from scratch (data analysis + visualization, solar modeling). - Data integrations with existing Mexican energy infrastructure (reverse engineering, API integrations). - Design / architect / implement a web platform for homeowners, local solar partners, and financiers (web technologies, API design, backend software). - Working with finance, operations, investors and customers to develop a deep empathy for Bright’s end users, iterating quickly. Here’s what we’re looking for: - 5+ years of professional full-stack experience. You’ve led development in large projects before. You’ve built stuff from the ground up before. You’ve used a well-known web framework before (Django/Python, Rails/Ruby, etc.). - Working knowledge of ops and efficient monitoring. You’ve carried a pager before. We’re on AWS+Docker. - Versatility: In addition to having an intimate knowledge of the whole web stack, you understand how all the pieces fit together (front-end, database, network layer, etc.) and how they will impact the performance of our platform. - Practical experience with unit testing and functional testing. - Experience working with various relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc.), non-relational databases (Redis, Cassandra, etc.), and caching systems (memcached). - Strong opinions on technology decisions. We’re currently using React backed by Node.js, but we’re open to the right tool for the job. - Strong architecture skills. You know how to build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements. - Prior startup experience and product intuition is a plus