5 months ago
Berkeley, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$190k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, testing, and evolution of critical software systems across cloud infrastructure, mobile applications, and internal tools.
- Build features and systems for customers, installers, manufacturing, and operations teams.
- Own and grow data pipelines and cloud systems supporting fleet visibility, analytics, and virtual power plant programs.
- Partner with hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and product teams to integrate software with real devices and real-world workflows.
- Refine requirements while balancing user needs, complexity, reliability, and maintainability.
- Partner with engineering leadership on technical direction and prioritization.
- Support mobile releases and QA through automation and repeatable processes.
- Lead by example through high-quality code, thoughtful design, code reviews, and strong engineering practices.
- Mentor engineers through hands-on collaboration.
- Support operational needs, including occasional on-call incident response outside normal business hours.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, ideally including experience at a small or growing startup.
- Ability to independently drive large, ambiguous technical problems from definition through execution.
- Strong experience designing and building cloud-based systems, including distributed systems and data pipelines, using AWS or similar.
- Experience with TypeScript and/or Python, React-based frontends, SQL, and database-backed systems.
- Experience building production-quality systems with an emphasis on reliability, automated testing, and long-term ownership.
- Ability to communicate clearly and work across engineering, operations, and non-technical teams.
- Ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs and take responsibility for outcomes.
- Bonus: React Native or mobile application development experience.
- Bonus: Experience with Agile/Scrum teams, IoT-connected systems, device data, embedded software concepts such as C/C++, protobufs, RPC frameworks, event-driven architectures, or hardware companies.
Benefits
- Full-time position expected to be in-office 4 days per week in Berkeley, CA.
- Medical, dental, and vision premiums are covered at 100% for employees and 50% for dependents on base plans.
- 401(k) plan available.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment, including eight weeks through Channing Copper and eight weeks of California Paid Family Leave.
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About Copper
Copper designs and sells battery-equipped home appliances, starting with the Charlie induction stove that integrates onboard energy storage to ease gas-to-electric transitions. The privately held company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California. Its work has received support from the U.S. Department of Energy, and it targets consumers seeking electric cooking and added home energy resilience.