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Senior Engineer, Backend - Consumer Experience Platform (Remote, US)

Renew Home United States


No Relocation

Posted: August 7, 2026

Job Description

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com  to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.

Role Summary

Renew Home is looking for a strong backend Software Engineer to join our HVAC Ecosystem team and help drive third-party device integrations and the day-to-day experiences of our customers. In this role, you will work with product, analytics, and the engineering team to develop new features that shape how customers can interact with our product.

What You Will Do

  • Design, develop and build backend features to support a wide variety of Renew Home customer experiences and third-party device integrations to enable energy saving automation.
  • Serve as the technical owner of critical product experience flows.
  • Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, analytics, and product management. 
  • Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, Nx, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.
  • Implement API monitoring tools and proactively monitor API service performance.
  • Participate in our development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s and peer code reviews.
Who We AreRenew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.We partner with industry-leading brands to ...
  • 4+ years of industry experience building backend software services.
  • Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.
  • Experience building features for scale and performance - using scalable APIs and working with REST frameworks.
  • Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL and no-SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, mongodb etc.).
  • Very strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity, excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Bonuses:
    • Experience with scalable distributed data processing.
    • Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions, pub/sub, Prefect tools.
    • Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
    • Experience in the electric power industry.
    • Experience working with external partners.

Additional Content

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com  to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.

Role Summary

Renew Home is looking for a strong backend Software Engineer to join our HVAC Ecosystem team and help drive third-party device integrations and the day-to-day experiences of our customers. In this role, you will work with product, analytics, and the engineering team to develop new features that shape how customers can interact with our product.

What You Will Do

  • Design, develop and build backend features to support a wide variety of Renew Home customer experiences and third-party device integrations to enable energy saving automation.
  • Serve as the technical owner of critical product experience flows.
  • Work with cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, analytics, and product management. 
  • Work on many aspects of our stack: Python, Nx, PostgreSQL, Celery, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, or equivalent in GCP), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git, Jira.
  • Implement API monitoring tools and proactively monitor API service performance.
  • Participate in our development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s and peer code reviews.
Who We AreRenew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.We partner with industry-leading brands to ...
  • 4+ years of industry experience building backend software services.
  • Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or demonstrated experience in the software industry.
  • Experience building features for scale and performance - using scalable APIs and working with REST frameworks.
  • Strong SQL skills, proficiency with SQL and no-SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, mongodb etc.).
  • Very strong software engineering background and proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, PHP, Ruby.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity, excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Bonuses:
    • Experience with scalable distributed data processing.
    • Experience with AWS Lambda/Cloud functions, pub/sub, Prefect tools.
    • Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK.
    • Experience in the electric power industry.
    • Experience working with external partners.