Description
Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work in a highly autonomous and collaborative environment
- Work closely with the other teams like mobile apps and embedded devices that integrate with the platform/backend
- Research and evaluate new technologies and tools
- Participate in re-occurring "Innovation Days" and work on innovative projects of your choice
- Work on cool stuff that you get to use in your own home
- Create systems to handle high volume data from sensors, cameras, and user actions
- API design and implementation
Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field. A solid understanding of core computer science principles including algorithms, complexity, and data structures is essential.
- Demonstrated experience in designing, building, and maintaining reliable, large-scale backend systems and microServicess. Experience with high-reliability and large-scale applications, such as mobile backends or similar systems, is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in at least one core programming language (preferably Golang or Python), with openness to learning new languages and technologies.
- Practical experience with a range of tools and technologies, including:
- Languages & Frameworks: Golang, Python
- Databases & Queues: MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka
- Networking & Cloud: Networking, AWS, Docker, MicroServicess
- Security & Protocols: OAuth2, data privacy, security best practices
- Infrastructure: Datacenter monitoring, PaaS, SaaS environments
- Familiarity with GRPC is a plus.
- Experience Creating and maintaining backend Servicess and learning how to design for horizontal scaling
- Experience Working with job queues, concurrency, caching, persistence, and writing performant code
- High level of communication skills. Ability to exchange ideas about complex subjects efficiently
- Ability to adapt, change, and learn as needed
- A few years work experience in a similar work environment using the technologies and patterns listed above
Contact
NRG Energy, Inc.
1201 Fannin Street
Houston
Texas United States
www.nrg.com/home.html
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