Staff Engineer, Software (Backend)
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Job Summary
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and a leading provider of solar battery and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006 our innovative microinverter technology revolutionized solar power making it a safer more reliable and scalable energy source. Today the Enphase Energy System enables users to make use save and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the most successful and innovative clean energy companies in the world with more than 80 million products shipped across 160 countries.
Join our dynamic teams designing and developing next-gen energy technologies and help drive a sustainable future!
This role at Enphase requires working onsite 3 days a week with plans to transition back to a full 5 day in office schedule over time.
About the role:
For our EV Charging businesswe seekexperienced IOT/ Cloud Engineerwho will be able to work across multiple products toleadeffectiveproductarchitecture anddevelopment
Hands-on in various technologiesMentor team of Engineers on day-to-day duties as well as work with leadership team on strategic initiatives
Provide hands-on technical expertise to design engineer deploy and deliver including driving improvements in technical architecturestandardsand processes.
Partner with Engineering Product ManagementProgram Managementand Professional Services to ensure required technology upgrades/migrations/ and builds are well understood and planned into roadmaps.
What you will do:
- Design build and maintain high-throughput Java Spring Boot microservices serving millions of devices
- Develop RESTful APIs (JSON/XML) secured with JWT and OAuth 2.0
- Work with MongoDB as the primary data store designing schemas and queries for scale
- Build and consume event-driven architectures using Kafka AWS SQS/SNS and Kinesis
- Containerize services with Docker and deploy on AWS EKS (Kubernetes) via CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate on system design for high availability disaster recovery scalability and performance
- Write clean testable well-documented code with strong unit and integration test coverage
- Participate in code reviews architectural discussions and sprint planning
- Own features end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and production monitoring
- Troubleshoot production issues perform root-cause analysis and drive reliability improvements
- Leverage AI-powered development tools for code generation automated code reviews test creation technical planning and debugging continuously improving team productivity and code quality
Who you are and what you bring:
- B.E./ in Computer Science (or equivalent) from a reputed institution
- 8 years of hands-on back-end development experience
- Strong proficiency in Java (8) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot Spring Data Spring Security)
- Solid experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB preferred) schema design indexing aggregation pipelines
- Practical experience with AWS services (EC2 S3 SQS SNS Lambda EKS CloudWatch or similar)
- Familiarity with Docker Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Experience with Git Bitbucket/GitHub and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins GitHub Actions or similar)
- Understanding of RESTful API design principles versioning and security (OAuth 2.0 JWT)
- Strong organizational skills ability to define track and deliver work independently
- Excellent problem-solving critical thinking and analytical skills
- Clear concise written and verbal communication
- Experience with event streaming platforms Kafka AWS Kinesis
- Working knowledge of AWS Lambda and serverless architectures
- Understanding of WebSockets and persistent connection protocols (e.g. OCPP)
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals TCP/IP TLS load balancing connection keep-alive timeout tuning
- Experience with AWS ALB/NLB target groups health checks and sticky sessions
- Exposure to Elasticsearch / OpenSearch for search and analytics workloads
- Familiarity with SQL databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) as a secondary skill
- Experience with front-end technologies (React JavaScript/TypeScript) full-stack capability is a plus
- Knowledge of caching layers (Redis ElastiCache)
- Understanding of observability structured logging distributed tracing metrics (Datadog ELK Prometheus)
- Familiarity with shell scripting (Bash) for automation debugging and operational tasks
- Exposure to OCPP (Open Charge Point Protocol) or EV/IoT domain
- Experience using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot Windsurf/Cursor ChatGPT Claude) for development code review and technical planning
- Experience working in renewable energy clean tech or IoT companies
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity and evolving priorities
- You take ownership proposing solutions not just implementing tickets
- You care about code quality clean architecture meaningful tests thoughtful PR reviews
- You can context-switch across projects without losing momentum
- You communicate status risks and trade-offs proactively to the team
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
Enphase is a global energy management technology company that provides residential and commercial solar plus storage solutions. We manufacture solutions spanning solar generation, energy storage, and web-based monitoring and control.
