Staff Software Architect

Date: Sep 6, 2023

Location(s): San Francisco, CA, US, 94108

Company: NextEra Energy

is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, and a world leader in battery storage. We provide energy-related products and services that grow our economy, protect the environment, support our communities and help customers meet their energy needs. We are leading the decarbonization of the U.S. economy with our goal to reach Real Zero carbon emissions from our operations by 2045 while improving customer affordability and reliability. Are you interested in creating a cleaner environment for future generations? Join our world-class, innovative team today.

Position Specific Description

Principal Software Architect

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

FULL-TIME/ HYBRID

ABOUT EVERBRIGHT

EverBright is a clean energy company on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of residences and businesses across the United States. We are a leading provider of financing for residential solar, storage, and energy efficiency products, fueling our rapid growth through innovative software solutions. We understand that the energy systems of tomorrow will be clean, distributed, and powered by advanced technology.

About this Role

In this critical role as Principal Software Architect, you'll serve as the right-hand to the CTO and play an instrumental part in shaping the future of our technology stack. You will guide the high-level architectural strategy for our various software products and platforms, ensuring robustness, scalability, and sustainability.

What You'll Do

• Design scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant distributed systems to meet evolving business requirements.

• Develop and oversee architectural roadmaps and technology strategies, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

• Implement observability and monitoring frameworks to provide real-time insights into system performance, health, and reliability.

• Lead the design and deployment of automated CI/CD pipelines, promoting swift and reliable code deployments.

• Mentor engineering teams on software development best practices, design patterns, and coding standards.

• Advocate for software development lifecycle best practices, including robust code reviews, comprehensive testing, and thorough documentation.

• Collaborate closely with the CTO to align architectural initiatives with the company’s strategic goals.

• Serve as the technical point of contact for cross-functional teams and external clients, facilitating architectural decisions and discussions.

• Evaluate and adapt new technologies and innovations to keep the architecture and technology stack up-to-date.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in software development and architecture.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Proven expertise in designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems.

• Comprehensive understanding of observability and monitoring tools and best practices.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and methodologies.

• Exceptional leadership and mentoring skills.

• Outstanding communication abilities, both written and verbal.

WHY EVERBRIGHT

Working at EverBright is challenging and rewarding.  We hire excellent people and empower them to do excellent work.  We are passionate about our mission and care deeply about building products that people love.  At EverBright you can expect to grow professionally, make a positive impact, work hard, have fun, be respected, feel part of a community, and be proud of your work and career.  EverBright also provides generous perks and benefits, including:

• Competitive compensation

• 401k match and pension

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and legal insurance

• Access to multiple offices around the US

• EAP and mental health assistance

• Health and wellbeing services

• Education assistance program

• Adoption assistance

• Work from home tech setup

Job Overview

This position writes and tests software to aid in development and support of products. Individuals in this role work with Technical Leads on software system architecture and module design and typically gains experience acting as the owner of a complete module in the system. This position participates in required product development process ceremonies. Employees in this role are responsible for writing and refining technical requirements and technical design documentation.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Codes in multiple languages in support of software products and the development of software products

• Leads software system architecture projects

• Communicates with varying levels within and outside the organization regarding software engineering

• Leads project-level sized teams including assigning work, answering technical project questions, helping other software engineers overcome challenges and mentoring less experienced software engineers

• Participates on technical leadership team responsible for selecting and approving software technology used by the company at-large

• Provides input on software and technology decisions that could affect the entire organization and will likely be active in software engineering industry outside of work

• Acts as a project kick-starter using knowledge gained through research or prototyping

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Experience: 12+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• None

The base pay for this position is $169,600.00 to $254,400.00 per year. This range is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Science, Research, and Technology

Organization: NextEra Project Mgmt

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

This position is eligible for Company sponsored benefits. Click to see our benefits.

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.

NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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