Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.

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.

Summary:

In this role, you’ll be building the back-end APIs and services that power our app experiences for Vivint’s millions of customers. Your work will directly impact how customers use Vivint to secure and control their homes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing APIs for mobile apps.

• Work across teams to design solution for provisioning and communicating with IOT devices.

• Develop cloud services that process the events and settings that power our Smart Home experiences.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience with Go and Python or similar languages

• Experience building secure, scalable, high-availability, low latency, and distributed cloud services.

• Experience developing gRPC and REST APIs

• Experience using MQTT to communicate with IoT devices

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience with Mongo DB or other NoSQL document databases

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Capable of identifying problems, taking initiative to propose solutions, and successfully executing plans

• 8+ years of software development experience

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred

• Familiarity with CI/CD build systems

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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