Backend Software Engineer (UK)

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Job description

Join a leading green tech smart home scale up to help deliver on significant international growth potential, and make a measurable and lasting impact on global carbon emissions

Sense is on a mission to make all homes intelligent, and in turn more efficient, safer and reliable. Using the power of artificial intelligence, Sense can dramatically reduce a home's carbon emissions, with the potential to remove over one gigaton of carbon from the atmosphere every year.

We are now expanding internationally. Our strategy is to engage directly with partners in the energy, insurance, and home service industries and deliver our technology into millions of their customers' homes. We are now looking for extraordinary people to help us deliver on our exciting growth plans. We are building a new team in the UK. Benefiting from the support of HQ in Massachusetts, this team will be responsible for delivery and growth in all international markets

If the idea of having a significant positive impact on the product (and climate) sounds exciting to you, let's talk!

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

As a backend software engineer at Sense, you will help us expand the capabilities of our cloud platform to enable a wide range of new product features, and you will be a key contributor to maintaining and scaling a high-quality production service. You should be

Focused on delivering functionality that benefits the customer and provides real business value.
Experienced at designing clean, usable REST APIs.
Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses.
Interested in building (or learning how to build) high-availability, performant, and scalable systems.
Tenacious when tracking down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to run a problem to the ground.

Requirements

2+ years professional experience with backend development
Devops experience maintaining a production environment
Background in Java, Linux, AWS, Cassandra is a plus

Please only apply if you currently have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

WHY SENSE

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Sense is building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We welcome candidates with backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in tech, and we strive to foster an engaging, respectful and supportive community where everyone feels empowered to do their best work. Sense is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. Wondering if you should apply? Contact us with your CV and thoughts about the role and let's discuss.

Sense is a growing VC-backed startup with an experienced leadership team and revolutionary machine learning technology.

Best Startups in Cambridge - Tech Tribune
"One of the world's top 100 AI companies" - VentureBeat
Clean Tech Company of the Year - New England Venture Capital Association
50 on Fire - BostInno
Top 100 - Red Herring
Best Consumer AI Technology - AI Dev World
Global Cleantech 100

Benefits

Competitive compensation & benefits
Pension scheme
We have a hybrid working model designed to attract talented people from across the UK. Rather than a standard office, our collaboration space is based in Theale, near Reading. This location is in the heart of the M4 corridor with ready access to the motorway network, and yet just 40 mins from Paddington, one-stop from Reading station and Crossrail, and five minutes walk from Theale train station. Each week the team will gather in Theale for two to three days a week, with the rest of the week operating remotely or perhaps taking advantage of a hot desk within our office network. With our hybrid model, we want to draw the most talented workforce from London to Bristol, and from Birmingham to Brighton.
UK-approved Stock options