Uplight is hiring a
The Position
Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 90 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expect–improving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are B Corp certified, enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.
We are seeking a Software Engineering Intern to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.
What you get to do:
We are searching for a Software Engineering Intern who is passionate about changing the way millions of people save energy. You’ll work within the Engineering Department to build and improve our applications to deliver flexible and creative solutions to our utility partners and end users. You’ll be a part of developing robust architecture and working on large feature initiatives that deliver a compelling experience for our customers in the area of Demand Response and Energy Orchestration.
You’ll be joining a high-performing team of Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists who work in Uplight’s Device Control group on the Orchestrated Energy product. The Orchestrated Energy (OE) product connects to, and controls hundreds of thousands of smart devices on the electrical grid, helping our end-users save energy, and our utility customers to create a more reliable and efficient power grid. The team you’ll be joining builds the microservices, data pipelines, and analytical models that power OE’s reporting systems. Our team is tasked with building highly scalable and available applications that inform our customers about the effectiveness of the OE product. Some examples of the applications you’ll help to build include the following:
Our team builds python-based microservices in both AWS and GCP, along with event-driven and batch-based data processing pipelines. We use REST interfaces, queues, websockets, ETL tools and event-driven architectures to facilitate communication between these microservices and data pipelines, ensuring that our product can produce these critical reports and insights for hundreds of thousands of devices in a timely manner. As an Engineering intern you’ll have the opportunity to further your skills in the software development field by working alongside experienced Software Engineers, while making an impact on the planet.
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Pay Range: $20 to $25 an hour (dependent on experience)
In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate annual base compensation range is listed above. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.
Uplight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religion (including head coverings), age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.