Senior Full Stack Developer, Digital Products

Brief Description of Sunnova

Sunnova (NYSE: NOVA) is revolutionizing the energy industry as a leading Energy as a Service (EaaS) provider of solar, battery storage, EV charging, and other energy solutions with customers spanning the U.S. and its territories. Founded in 2012, our goal is to provide homeowners, businesses, and communities with a better energy service at a better price – making clean, renewable energy more accessible, reliable, and affordable.

At Sunnova, we believe that our success comes from the diversity and creativity of our people. Our team is made up of forward-thinkers who are passionate about changing the energy industry for the better, and we're looking for like-minded individuals to join us. We encourage our people to push beyond traditional limits and explore new horizons – because only then can we truly transform the world for the better.

If you're excited about being a part of the fastest-growing segment of the energy industry, we want you on our team!

The Senior Full Stack Developer Position

Sunnova Energy is searching for Senior Full Stack Developer to be responsible for designing and implementing innovative digital products and software solutions which enhance Sunnova’s ability to offer industry leading solar systems and energy solutions to customers. The candidate will work closely with subject matter experts in various aspects of Sunnova’s business. This position will support key initiatives across several departments.

• Develops, enhances, and maintains cloud, data, and software products to support Sunnova’s software platform

• Designs software solutions, algorithms, and cloud architectures needed to satisfy product features and functionality defined by product owner and other stakeholders in a production environment

• Works in all phases of the software development life cycle including functional analysis, development of technical requirements, technical design, prototyping, coding, testing, deployment, data migration, and support 

• Integrates subsystems such as data pipelines, AI/ML algorithms, API interfaces into end-user facing products

• Develops modern web front end user experiences to enable features and functionality described in the product backlog

• Participate in daily scrums, work with Scrum Master and QA Team on projects, and support delivery timelines and priorities

• Organizes and prioritizes team workload with scrum team through story pointing

• Creates detailed documentation which describes methodology, relevant instructions, and test results

• Finds, analyzes, and fixes bugs and performance problems whenever and wherever they may occur 

• Acts as a subject matter expert for products that the scrum team supports 

• Responsible for designing and presenting solutions to senior leaders in IT

• Solves problems as part of a team and leads team to developing solutions for features and sub-components and improvements to software delivery

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably in computer science, software engineering or information systems 

• 7+ years of software development experience 

• 2+ years in software development using AWS cloud-based compute, and storage solutions such as API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3

• Expert in multiple programming languages, including Python and JavaScript

• Expert in multiple user interface frameworks including Angular and WebGL

• Expert with relational database concepts, structured query language (SQL), logic modeling, best practices, and physical design 

• Proficient with non-relation datastores such as key-value, document databases

• Expert with architecting, coding and interacting with REST APIs

• Proficient in containerization technologies and deployment frameworks like Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience with modern Angular

• Experience with Python, Flask, numpy, scikit, scikit-learn, pandas, and image processing libraries 

• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and associated containerization technologies

• Experience with data science concepts such as regression and classification

• Experience with WebGL (e.g., Three.js) or 3d rendering

• Familiarity with photovoltaics or energy storage systems

• Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively with a variety of internal and external parties 

• Ability to identify opportunities for technical improvements across multiple processes or functional areas, recommend solutions, & advocate for implementation  

• Ability to influence technical design decisions & make recommendations on high level architecture

• Extended periods of time working at computer workstation 

• Some overtime required 

• Fully remote

• Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, healthcare flexible spending account, and 401(k) with employer match.

• Competitive compensation & annual bonus

• Paid time off, including 10 holidays and Paid Parental Leave

• Cell phone allowance for many roles

• Free access to onsite fitness center in Houston and/or discounted fitness memberships through health provider

• Complimentary garage parking in Houston

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are selected for a position, your employment will be contingent upon submission to and successful completion of a post-offer/pre-placement drug test (and medical examination if required by the role) as well as pre-placement verification of the information and qualifications provided during the selection process.