Frontend Software Engineer

Our Mission  

SPAN is enabling electrification for all

SPAN is mission-driven to design, build, and deploy products that electrify our built environment, decarbonize our world, and slow the effects of climate change.

• Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere.

• Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives.

At SPAN, we believe in:

• Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy

• Making electrification upgrades possible

• Building more resilient homes with reliable backup

• Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid

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The Role

We are seeking Software Engineers to join our team and help us continue building world-class web ecosystem solutions in React as we design, implement, and manage a new SPAN web ecosystem. Our web application is key to unlocking the full potential of SPAN products for our support, Product, developers, QA in providing them with meaningful insights, visualization tools, and a powerful debugging tool. You’ll work with cross-functionally with mobile, cloud, device software, product, support and QA.

Responsibilities

• Commit to code craftsmanship, cutting-edge tooling, monitoring, and TDD.

• Design, implement, and test features using TypeScript and React.

• Collaborate on making technical decisions for SPAN’s frontend architecture and also reusable architecture across frontend and mobile apps.

• Work closely with product and design teams on SPAN’s product and execution strategy.

• Share knowledge within the team through pair programming, code reviews, presentations, example code, and documentation.

• Partner with firmware, mobile, and backend engineers to ensure seamless integration with our hardware products.

• Collaborate with QA and Platform Infrastructure teams to drive an efficient and robust quality system, ensuring speedy and reliable deployments.

As SPAN is a startup, this list is neither exhaustive nor complete. This role requires agility and a willingness to explore new areas of expertise and responsibility.

Potential Projects

• Turn technical challenges into reusable and scalable solutions, leading their implementation.

• Work on both internal- vs. external-facing tools

• Collaborate with other tech leads on a full-stack data communication refactor to help us scale to millions of homes.

• Work with product and the frontend team to iteratively deliver value predictably on multi-year projects.

About You

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and shipping user-facing applications for large audiences.

• 2+ years of experience in React development.

• Strong experience with TypeScript.

• Unshakable practices in Test Driven Development.

• Experience collaborating on design systems.

• Outcomes-oriented communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in the energy industry.

• Experience working with IoT devices.

• Experience with Next.js (App Router)

• Knowledge of gRPC, protobuf, GraphQL.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Experience managing packages and working with symlinks.

The U.S. base salary range for this position is $110,300- $170,000 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: 100% employee premiums for base plans on medical, dental, vision with options for additional coverage.  Parental leave up to twenty four (24) weeks depending on eligibility

⚡ Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit

⚡ Strong focus on team building and company culture: Employee Resource Groups, monthly social events, SPANcakes recognition breakfast, lunch, and learns

⚡ Flexible hours, one holiday per month, and flexible time off

Interested in joining our team? Apply today and we’ll be in touch with the next steps!