Sr Fullstack Engineer

About Bright:

Bright is a venturebacked startup building the solar operating system to power every home across the world. Our platform allows homeowners and business owners to easily adopt solar with no initial investment and save 20% or more on their electricity bill. In doing so were enabling rapid solar adoption and pioneering a sustainable energy future.

Were looking for someone interested in having an impact far beyond pixels on a screen or rows in a database. We believe global warming is one of the most important challenges in our lifetime and Bright provides a unique opportunity for you to use engineering skills to make a serious impact. The process for homeowners and business owners to adopt solar power is unnecessarily complicated and the industry especially internationally is young.

About the position:

This is an incredibly unique opportunity as were growing very quickly as the market leader but just getting around to hiring one of our first dedicated frontend engineers. Weve operated lean and this is a oneofakind role for someone that wants to be early but is looking for a low risk opportunity that will certainly have an impact on the world.

Today Bright is installing 5 solar installations every day all across Mexico with software acting as a coordinator for all the parties involved. Similar to Airbnb Uber or OpenDoor software is our core strategy and we apply it to almost every team from logistics to finance and customer success. With projects ranging from marketing chat bots to solar monitoring (IoT) integrations to logistics optimization there is never a dull moment.

Tasks

Your tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Spearhead building new capabilities and evolve our current ones for various web platforms: (customers local solar partners operations).
• Own buildout of our marketing site (Gatsby Strapi).
• Create digital experiences for many different user roles. For example your technician is arriving with views for customers thirdparty technicians and the internal Bright operations team.
• Design / architect / implement web platforms for homeowners business owners local solar partners and financiers.
• Plenty more unknown challenges we havent faced yet!

Requirements

Were looking for someone who:

• Has 5 years of professional frontend experience. Youve led development in large projects and have built stuff from the ground up.
• Has professional experience with React and React hooks.
• Has the ability to create goodenough user experiences without having a UX designer available.
• Has fluency in technical English (Spanish is a bonus).
• Is pragmatic can prioritize and say no when needed.
• Has prior startup experience and ideally product intuition.
• Is comfortable communicating and working with nonengineers (we work with almost every team at Bright in some capacity from interns up to the CEO).

Nice to have experience with the following tools / technologies:

• GraphQL
• Typescript
• Figma / InVision
• Product analytics

Our frontend

• SPAs
• React
• Tailwind CSS
• Material UI
• GraphQL (apollo)
• Retool (as the frontend for many internal tools)

Our backend stack;

• Node.js (Typescript) as REST and GraphQL server
• Go for special purpose tasks
• PostgreSQL PostGIS
• EC2 S3 and SQS on AWS
• Redis

Benefits

Benefits:

• Ability to work from anywhere within 3 hours time difference from CST.
• A fun highcaliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant.
• The opportunity to learn firsthand about the distributed generation regulatory scheme in Mexico while being a part of a highgrowth startup.
• Unparalleled learning we have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage on this project.
• Awesome work environment all input and ideas matter to us.
• Competitive salary and benefits packages