About Amber
Amber is an entirely new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy.
We give customers direct access to the real-timewholesale electricity price as it varies every 5 mins and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid.It's a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.
We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly(close to 100k customers).
We have alsorecently expanded into licensing our core technologyto utilities overseas, including apartnership withE.ONNext in the UK.
Amber is backed by leading Australian and international investors, including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners and E.ON Next.
Most recently, Amber raised a $78.5 million Series E, led by 1GT, Morgan Stanley Investment Management's climate tech fund, alongside participation from existing investors.
We arescaling rapidlyandyou'd be joining a team of close to 250committed tobuilding a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven cultureas we transform a major industry.
Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $19/kWh, and Amber for EVs enables the cheapest, cleanest charging.In ****, we will push this even further with our newvehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
About the role
At Amber we believe that enabling a culture where everyone at Amber is set up to do the best work of their lives and feels connected and supported is one of the most important things we can do to ensure Amber's long-term success.
Want to help improve the environment by shifting Australia and the world's energy usage towards renewables?
Amber provides a great opportunity to apply your skills as an Engineer to help enable the uptake of renewable energy.
Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in the customers' homes, enabling them to time their usage to consume power at times of high renewable penetration (and cheap prices), and then export power back to the grid at critical times - letting them outbid coal and gas generators and earn potentially >$100 in an afternoon.
The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:
- Home automation integrations(to batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon)



that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability
- Mobile & Web appsfor customers to monitor and manage their energy usage
-pricing and billing enginefor real time energy pricing
-marketing site and associated toolsto drive customer growth
-tech stackisReact Native mobile app, someReact web frontends, and aServerless Lambda backend on AWS.
We're usingTypescript top to bottom, andApollo GraphQLsits in the middle.
- We keep our data inDynamoDBandPostgres, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.
You can learn more about our tech stack athttps://stackshare.io/companies/amber-electric
While we're looking for talented and driven individuals our desire is to build a champion team, not a team of champions.
We're full-stack-ish; while it's impossible for everyone to excel across every layer of the stack we value people who can chip in wherever they're needed.
We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace from the ground up.
We want engineers who are as comfortable communicating with people as they are with their code.
Qualifications and Skills
You have apositive mindset: equal parts curious, team-oriented, and can-do
Aminimum of 5 or more years of commercial software development experiencein either Web or Mobile environments
Past experience mentoring or leading software engineers
Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not a hard requirement
Experience with languages sharing features withTypescript is also a plus (such as JavaScript, C#, Go, or similar)
We favour generalistswho can be flexible across the stack, but are particularly interested in engineers with deep skills and experience across both frontend and backend.
It would be a bonus if you have skills inCDK & Postgres databases
Strong verbal and written communication skillsbuilt on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential
Your responsibilities
Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack in the areas of your speciality




Flexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting your team when they need it
Work collaboratively with your peers in product and across the wider company to ensure you're always shipping the right thing the right way at the right time
Mentor and support other members of the engineering team
Support the app across the whole lifecycle from idea through to production
Take high level ownership of technical design and project delivery
Benefits
We're committed to building adiverse and inclusive workplaceand agreat cultureof people who love coming to work to build a better world.
You'd be a part of arapidly growing team of over 180with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
Be part of agrowing technology start-upthat will shape the future of household and grid energy use.
Flexible working hourswith provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD.
Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.
Anexternal Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)for mental health support.
Competitive salary and share options in Amber.
Annual Learning & Development budgetto support your personal growth.
Salary rangeis between$155,000 and $200,000 base per annumand is quoted excluding superannuation.
All roles at Amber include employee stock options over and above the base salary and superannuation.
This is a full-time role to be based ideally from Melbourne and Sydney, but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia.
We are also open to discussing 4 days a week or 9 days a fortnight once you're ramped up, if that's what you are looking for.
Amber is a remote first team; we have an office in the Melbourne CBD, where we work flexibly between the office and home.
The vast majority of our team are located in Melbourne.
For those based in Sydney, they catch up in a co-working space in the city every now and then, and rest of the locations in Australia work from home.
While we don't expect people to attend the office, we do expect that people mostly work in the Melbourne time zone to maximise collaboration.
If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!
Even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply.
We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Amber
📍 Melbourne