About Amber

Amber is an entirely new way of thinking about buying, banking and selling energy where home energy technology works to put money back in customers’ pockets and accelerate the renewable energy transition. We are growing rapidly and have thousands of customers who love what we are doing and a great product that will play a significant role in driving the world towards a renewable future. Amber is disrupting a large market in Europe and you would be part of a rapidly growing team across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. Amber for Batteries unlocks more value for homeowners with batteries by storing energy when it is cheap and exporting to the grid at wholesale feed-in rates.

Amber for EVs is our EV smart charging solution that helps EV owners save on charging costs by using more cheap, renewable energy. In 2025, development of vehicle-to-grid technology will begin.

About the role

We are currently hiring for a Full Stack Software Engineer. Amber provides a great opportunity to apply your skills to help enable the uptake of renewable energy. Our technology optimises thousands of batteries and other devices in customers’ homes, enabling them to time their usage to consume power when renewable penetration is high and prices are cheap, and then export power back to the grid at critical times.

The Amber Electric product team develops and supports:

• Home automation integrations with batteries, hot water systems and pool pumps, with EVs coming soon
• Mobile & Web apps for customers to monitor and manage their energy usage
• A pricing and billing engine for real time energy pricing

The tech stack is React Native mobile app, React web frontends, and a Serverless Lambda backend on AWS. We use Typescript top to bottom, with Apollo GraphQL in the middle. Data is stored in DynamoDB, Postgres, and Snowflake as appropriate.

You can learn more about our tech stack at the Amber Stack

Qualifications and Skills

• Self-starters who are eager to learn and comfortable in a changing environment
• Positive, curious, collaborative, and can-do mindset
• Between 3 and 5 years of commercial development experience in Web or Mobile
• Commercial experience with the technologies in our stack is a strong plus but not required
• Experience with languages similar to TypeScript (e.g., JavaScript, C#, Go) is a plus
• Generalists who can contribute across the stack (frontend and backend)
• Strong English communication skills (C1/C2 level minimum)
• Additional languages, particularly European languages, are a bonus

Your Responsibilities

• Write and maintain high quality code across the stack in your areas of expertise
• Contribute outside your specialty to support the team
• Collaborate with product and other teams to ship the right thing, the right way, at the right time
• Research, consult, analyse, and evaluate system requirements
• Test, debug, diagnose, and correct errors in the tech stack per specifications
• Support the app across the full lifecycle from idea to production
• Work with external clients and internal teams to deliver impactful solutions

Benefits

• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture
• Join a growing technology startup shaping the future of household renewable energy
• Part of a growing team (140+) with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations
• Flexible working hours and remote working
• Competitive salary within local market
• Share options in Amber Electric
• Employment and leave entitlements as per local country
• External Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support
• Annual Learning & Development budget
• Annual company conference in Melbourne, Australia

How You Work

• Predominantly remote work in a high-trust environment with core collaboration hours 7am–10am London time to align with Australian colleagues
• Outside core hours, you manage your time for outcomes and impact with regular check-ins and progress updates
• We value work-life balance and sustainable pace
• Headquarters in Melbourne with a second co-working office in Sydney; UK co-working hub for onboarding and quarterly collaboration
• Probation onboarding may include travel to Australia for 2 weeks; AmberCon is a yearly event in Melbourne
• We cover flights, accommodation and other travel costs per policy

Salary: £45,000 - £70,000 base per annum, excluding superannuation. All full-time roles include employee stock options.

This is a full-time role ideally based in the UK/Ireland/Germany, with openness to candidates elsewhere in Europe. Location flexibility includes a London co-working space; further details provided during process.

If this kind of work excites you, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box.

Our process

• Screening interview with AU-based talent team
• Take-home technical challenge (around four hours)
• Follow-up technical interview with AU and UK engineers
• Cultural interview with UK-based Tech Lead/Software Engineering Consultant and a Software Engineering Manager
• Final chat with Co-Founder and executive leadership

Please note core collaboration hours are 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM BST. Most screening meetings will be scheduled within this window to align with team availability.

We will be respectful of your time as an applicant while aiming to find the right fit. Only applicants with full working rights in the UK/Europe region will be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. No recruitment agencies. Passion and curiosity are valued—apply even if you don’t tick every box.