The world is embarking on a rapid journey to completely transform where our electricity comes from. It’s the biggest slice of solving the climate crisis. Australia is at the cutting edge of this transition, and SwitchDin is working at the forefront of innovation in the sector.

Our mission: To build the technology platform needed to shift from centralised energy grids to the smart grids of the future, where renewable generation, energy storage, and smart devices reign.

We're a Renewable Energy SaaS company, an Australian business with global reach. Our cloud platforms address the scale-out issues of the orchestration of distributed energy resources (DER), enabling better power system management, and broader usage of renewable sources. Our team is a group of dedicated, intelligent, and genuine people who are down-to-earth and super passionate about what we do.

We’ve recently been funded for growth, and we’re welcoming in a new tranche of smart, motivated software engineers to help us accelerate our mission. If you’re looking for meaningful work that allows you to contribute to a mission you believe in, and the opportunity to be part of a local tech startup success story, you will fit right in.

Why Join Now?

In a word: Purpose. We are about enabling extremely important step changes. What we're doing matters, it has an impact, and there is an incredible journey in front of us. You can help us find innovative solutions to large-scale problems, and change the way the world’s energy systems work.

The world has embarked on an energy transformation. Globally, we’re deploying solar PV generation equivalent to 100 coal-fired power stations each year. With this tsunami of renewables our grids are changing to include millions of little distributed power plants, as well as storage, EVs, and controllable loads. That all needs to be orchestrated at levels big and small to keep our complex energy infrastructure working, and power flowing to everyone. This requires a high-scale, ultra-reliable and secure blend of cloud, IoT, and intelligence to power the future power grid. We are building that system.

About this Role

We have a role open for an experienced software engineer to join our small, tight-knit team. Some areas of expertise that we’re looking to bring into the team right now are:

Experience with data pipelines, data platforms or telemetry;
Full-stack engineering with an API-first SaaS platform;
Python software development experience;
Exposure to Cloud Engineering / Infrastructure Automation, with a particular focus on AWS and Terraform;
An understanding that SRE and DevSecOps are part of good engineering practice.

We’re still a startup, so we rely on people being comfortable in T-shaped roles that will see them wearing different hats during the day and across the year. This is a role that will contribute to both the evolution of our products as well as internal-facing initiatives.

Who Are We Looking For?

To be successful on our team, you’ll need to be:

someone who loves building things with software;
not just a programmer, but a systems thinker who collaborates with others to design, build, deploy and manage large systems;
willing to own solutions and designs from end-to-end;
skilled with utilising modern tooling, like AI, to maximise your impact;
experienced in roles that have built your maturity across multiple areas of software development;
excited about the challenge of building a world-class system.

Ways of Working

We’re a remote-first company. Our headquarters is in beautiful Newcastle, NSW - 2 hours north of Sydney. You can be anywhere in Australia. (But the closer to the Eastern timezone the better!) Our CEO lives in Melbourne and our CTO in Brisbane, for example.

We’re primarily a product company, with our product roadmap being largely driven by projects we partner on with large, household name customers. As a a software engineer, you’ll be working with many people across the company, including pre-sales technical staff, product managers, customer support, customers and partners, and of course lots of engineers in your own team and other teams.

We’re small on hierarchy and big on transparency. No role is more than 3 hops from the CEO, and the head of each department shares what’s happening in their area at the weekly company all-hands.

Interested?

Does this sound like what you want to be doing?

If yes, please send through your resume ASAP. We would love to share more about our vision for the world, and discover together how you might be a great fit for helping us achieve it.

SWITCHDIN

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