Front End Engineer

About Us

Disrupting the one-size-fits-all utility model, Inspire’s groundbreaking smart home subscription seamlessly combines personalized clean energy plans with best-in-class smart devices. Using the Inspire app, members can self-drive their smart homes from anywhere, and select automated settings to use less energy while earning rewards. Inspire strives to make every home a smart home, powered by clean energy. Inspire’s mission is to drive forward a brighter energy future by simplifying consumer adoption of clean energy and smart home technologies. Through continual innovation and scaling of connected device interoperability; clean energy supply, generation and storage; and intelligent, decentralized grid services, Inspire is building the world’s first fully-integrated clean energy company.

Launched in January 2014, Inspire homes have used the clean power production equivalent of 121 wind turbines since inception. Driven by a team of mission-driven Avengers in Philadelphia and Santa Monica,, Inspire prides itself on a culture of ownership, teamwork and stalwart obsession with “crushing it!”

About You

As a Front-End Engineer, you’ll be responsible for quickly building both mobile and web apps as part of our “smart energy” engineering team. You’ll collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and product designers on everything from product requirements, to user experience, to API design.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Design and build our mobile app that controls our Inspire smart energy platform
• Be a core member of the engineering team that is building this new product
• Manage your work through the full software dev life-cycle

Qualifications

• You are passionate about building great applications
• You’ve shipped a mobile app (React Native, Ionic or native)
• Expertise with JavaScript
• You love to learn from other developers and work closely with product teams
• Working knowledge of software architecture, data structures, and best practices
• You have 3+ years of experience as a professional software engineer
• You know what it means to ship high-quality code

Technologies we use:

• Languages: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Python
• Frameworks: React, Angular, React Native
• Infrastructure: Heroku, AWS
• Datastores: Redshift, PostgreSQL, S3, Redis, Mongo

The Perks

Located in Center City in the Graham building, Inspire is looking for team members who share our vision for a better future and who want to grow with a company that’s disrupting a massive industry.  Our workplace is designed to foster collaboration, creativity, and collective contributions

We offer competitive compensation and equity packages, plus benefits such as health, vision, life, and dental insurance.  And you want a standing desk? You got it!

How to Apply:

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