Sr. Software Engineer

Sunrun is a residential solar and energy storage company focused on making energy more reliable and affordable. The Senior Frontend Engineer will implement features for customer-facing applications, help transform the technology stack to serverless, establish technical standards, promote testing and development best practices, and mentor team members.

Responsibilities:

• Help establish the standards for the team in areas of technical excellence
• Work collaboratively with Product Management and our UX designers to develop applications that can be tested easily and will perform well under a variety of network conditions
• Champion adherence to best practice development methodologies
• Facilitate automated testing so all teams can innovate at a rapid pace
• Mentor and build skills across the team through effective standards setting, code reviews, and pairing

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing complex enterprise applications with JavaScript
• Bias towards mentorship and skill-building
• Some breadth and depth in SAAS application design and implementation
• Excellent communication skills
• Good team player
• Strong JavaScript application development of browser applications
• Strong knowledge of HTML5 (DOM, markup, browser APIs) and CSS3 (SASS preprocessor, OOCSS, modular)
• Strong skills with writing unit and integration tests in JavaScript using Mocha, Chai, Sinon
• Experience with React and Flux is a big plus
• More specifically Redux as ‘flux' framework
• Ability to work with JS build/task runners like Webpack, Gulp, Grunt and NPM run scripts
• Strong knowledge of Git, version control, branching strategies, merging, and rebasing
• Performance optimization experience including browser page rendering, network traffic, and back-end system tuning
• Solid understanding of MVC architecture and frameworks
• Strong focus on Automation - Continuous Integration/Deployment
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, S3, CloudFront
• BS/MS in CS or equivalent is preferred