Mid-Level Full Stack Engineer in London, England at Amber

Amber is an entirely new way of thinking about buying, banking and selling energy where home energy technology works to put money back in customers’ pockets and accelerate the renewable energy transition.

We’re an Australian headquartered company, where we are both an energy technology company and a utility providing energy directly to households and small businesses. In Australia (the world leader on rooftop solar and a 2-way energy grid), we’ve proven that the cheapest, fastest and most rewarding way to reach 100% renewables is to automate the growing wave of home batteries, EVs, and other smart energy devices.

Customers get direct access to the real-time electricity prices and the technology to shift energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid and export to the grid at times when the price they can be paid for it is highest.

We are a clear market leader in energy automation in Australia, and are now partnering with utilities across Europe to bring our technology to European markets and consumers.

We’re at a critical moment in taking the business to scale in Europe. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing regional team of 25, and be part of a global team of over 240, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.

We’re backed by leading VCs in Australia and Europe, as well as impact-focused investors and world-leading energy companies.

Want to help improve the environment by shifting the world’s energy usage towards renewables?

We are currently hiring for a mid-level Full Stack Software Engineer. 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 energy generators and earn potentially >£50 in an afternoon.

At Amber, we believe that enabling a culture where everyone 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 our long-term success.

The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:

• Home automation integrations (to batteries, solar systems, and EVs) that control electricity usage in response to pricing and renewable availability
• Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage
• A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing

The European team adapts and expands these systems to local energy markets across the UK and Europe, getting them to the customers of our partner utilities.

The tech stack is React Native mobile app, some React web frontends, and a Serverless Lambda backend on AWS. We’re using Typescript top to bottom, and Apollo GraphQL sits in the middle. We keep our data in DynamoDB, Postgres, and Snowflake, using one or the other as best suits a particular workload.

You can learn more about our tech stack at https://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.

At Amber, we want to hire self-starters who are eager to learn, and are comfortable working in a changing environment. Some of the key traits we are looking for in this role:

• You have a positive mindset: equal parts collaborative, curious, and can-do
• Between 3 and 5 years of commercial development experience
• Commercial experience with the specific technologies in our stack is a strong plus
• Commercial experience with Typescript is preferred, though languages sharing similar features (such as JavaScript, C#, Go) are also acceptable
• We favour generalists with strong backend skills, who are open to flexing across the stack (front end, back end, infrastructure)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential, with English proficiency of C1/C2 level at a minimum.

• Create and maintain high quality program code across the stack
• Work collaboratively within the product team, taking a high degree of ownership not just of the code you write but of the product that makes it to end users and the processes we employ to get it there
• Contribute your knowledge to the wider Amber org through RFCs, shares and active engagement in shared discussions
• Research, consult, and evaluate our system requirements to identify and discuss appropriate iterations and tradeoffs to meet our goals
• Test, debug, diagnose, and correct errors in our tech stack according to our operational specifications
• Support the apps that are live with our partners, ensuring their customers have a great experience
• Work directly with external partners while collaborating across internal teams, including leadership, product, design, engineering, and customer operations to deliver impactful solutions.

• We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world
• Join a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household renewable energy use
• You’d be a part of a growing team of over 240 people with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations
• Flexible working hours & remote working - see "How You Work" for more info
• Competitive salary within your local market
• Share options in Amber Electric
• Employment and leave entitlements as per your local country
• An external Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support
• Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth
• Annual company conference in Melbourne, Australia.

Between £45,000 and £70,000 base per annum. All roles at Amber include employee stock options.

The salary for this role is benchmarked to London, UK, with a location-based adjustment reflecting cost, tax and collaboration factors across Europe. You're free to work from any of our preferred locations in Europe - pay simply reflects where you're based.

This is a full-time role to be based from the UK/Germany/Netherlands. We have an office space in London for those based there.

You will be working almost entirely remotely within a high-trust environment where transparency and accountability are foundational to our engineering culture. Amber's flexible approach allows you to shape your schedule around core collaboration hours, which are 7am - 12pm Tuesdays and Thursdays London time. This overlap enables meaningful collaboration with your Australian colleagues.

Outside these core hours, we trust you to manage your time effectively. We expect consistent communication and reliable delivery with a focus on outcomes and impact. Proactive check-ins and sharing progress updates transparently are part of how we maintain this balance of flexibility and responsibility.

We value work-life balance and sustainable pace—we don't want team members to overwork or burn out, nor do we expect you to be available 24/7. Instead, we promote clear boundaries and open dialogue about workload and capacity.

Our headquarters is located in Melbourne, Australia. Our European team operates from a central London hub that you will travel to during your onboarding, and approximately every 2 months thereafter for team collaboration. These in-person sessions help strengthen relationships and reinforce our collaborative culture.

We also have AmberCon every year, this is a big team calendar event and we will fly you to Melbourne to be there with the rest of the team. We will always cover flights, accommodation and other travel costs as part of our travel policies.

🌈 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, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Please include your resume and a cover letter telling us one specific way you could use your technical skills to improve a household's energy use under the Amber model.

Humans will read this cover letter, so we will notice and appreciate if a human has written it!

Our process will generally be as follows:

• A screening interview with our talent team
• A take-home technical challenge that should take no longer than four hours
• A follow up interview with two members of the engineering team
• A culture interview with two members of the engineering leadership team

We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team.

Only applicants with full working rights in the role’s location will be considered.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.

No recruitment agencies please. We are already working with our preferred partners. Thank you!