Software Engineer

Hi, we are ecobee.

ecobee introduced the world’s first smart Wi-Fi thermostat to help millions of consumers save money, conserve energy, and bring home automation into their lives. That was just the beginning. We continue our pursuit to create technology that brings peace of mind into the home and allows people to focus on the moments that matter most. We take pride in making a meaningful difference to the environment, all while being part of the exciting, connected home revolution.

In 2021, ecobee became a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems. Generac introduced the first affordable backup generator and later created the category of automatic home standby generator. The company is committed to sustainable, cleaner energy products poised to revolutionize the 21st century electrical grid. Together, we take pride in making a meaningful difference to the environment.

Why we love to do what we do:

We’re helping build the world of tomorrow with solutions that improve everyday life while making a positive impact on the planet. Our products and services work in harmony to provide comfort, efficiency, and peace of mind for millions of homes and businesses. While we’re proud of what we’ve done so far, there’s still a lot we can do—and you can be part of it.

Join our extraordinary team.

We're a rapidly growing global tech company headquartered in Canada, in the heart of downtown Toronto, with a satellite office in Leeds, UK (and remote ecopeeps in the US). We get to work with some of North America and UK's leading professionals. Our colleagues are proud to bring their authentic selves to work, confident that what we do is grounded in a greater purpose. We’re always looking for curious, talented, and passionate people to join our team.

Who You’ll Be Joining

The Smart Security backend team is responsible for safety critical services that drive ecobee’s Smart Security offering. This includes interacting with multiple devices within a given home to determine occupancy, and escalation to emergency services if incidents occur. We are also responsible for maintaining Smart Security subscriptions, bundles, and promotions with both internal and external teams. A team that is responsible for real customer impact. We aren’t working on just another app or AI-enabled cat video generator; we are working on systems that keep people safe and secure. That is, you will make a real difference in people’s lives.

We integrate our backend services with both internal and external parties to provide even more benefits for our customers. For example, locking a supported smart door lock when a user arms their home or facilitating professional installation of our smart doorbell camera with a local contractor. The team itself is small, energic, and agile and maintains a “how can I help?” attitude. Each team member is self-sufficient, you won’t be micromanaged. We are experts in working in a fast-paced environment. We are pulled in multiple directions by different stakeholders. You will never be bored while maintaining a work life balance. We interact daily with other teams across the organization including product, mobile, web, and business systems just to name a few. We have responsibilities across the entire organization via services that are used by all business units.

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a Software Engineer on the Smart Security backend team, you’ll use leading edge technologies to innovate highly concurrent, server applications that directly impact ecobee’s success and our customer’s lives. We encourage the freedom to investigate and evaluate new technologies to solve complex problems. As a result, your input will have a significant impact on our company and objectives.

Each engineer on the team participates in design, implementation, and validation activities. We expect you to speak up and complain when something isn’t quite right. You dislike toil. You are full of new and innovative ways to improve both our code but also our ways of working.

What You’ll Bring To The Table

• You like to continuously challenge yourself by finding new and better ways to solve complex problems. You aren’t shy about championing new technologies or ways of working to make things better. You are a sponge and love learning new tools and languages. You have a mix of experience and crazy ideas to bring to the team.
• You understand that sometimes it makes sense to meet in person for planning and white boarding.
  
  

Hard Skills:

• You enjoy writing code and solving problems.
• You have concrete coding experience in at least two of the following: Go, Typescript, Python. Java experience is also an asset.
• You understand that writing code is not enough, you have experience with system and microservice design, validation, and deployment.
• You have written code that adheres to best practices with respect to concurrency, performance, security, documentation, and maintainability.
• You have concrete validation experience and have written unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• You have experience with continuous integration and know the difference between development, production and staging environments. Concrete experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or Terraform are a plus.
• You have database experience. You understand data migration, backfill, and reporting. Experience with MySQL and/or Firestore is a plus.
• You have worked with cloud computing before. Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
• You understand the importance of code reviews and documentation including being a good reviewer.
• Prior experience with one or more third-party API integrations is preferred. Examples include: HomeKit, Google Home, or Alexa.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, git, and markdown are assets.
  
  

Soft Skills

• You are comfortable presenting your designs and ideas in public and able to answer questions and accept constructive feedback.
• You are comfortable being part of an on-call rotation to respond to incidents and downtime at all hours.
• You can communicate technical topics to non-technical people both written and orally.
• You can write concise and useful documentation, including migration strategies, runbooks, and designs. You will also contribute to security, architecture, and legal reviews.
• You can and are willing to mentor others including interns.
• You are an excellent communicator and have no problem speaking your mind and providing feedback.
• A sense of humour is a plus.
• Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check.
  
  

We've built the above list as a guideline for some of the skills and interests of our team - but we strive to build our teams with members from a diverse background and skill set, so if any combination of these apply to you, we would love to chat! 

What Happens After You Apply

Application review. It will happen. By an actual person in Talent Acquisition. We get upwards of 100+ applications for some roles, it can take a few days, but every applicant can expect a note regarding their application status.

Interview Process (3 stages):

• A 30-minute phone call with a member of Talent Acquisition
• A 1-hour virtual interview with the Hiring Manager – expect technical, behavioural, and situational questions.
• The final interview! This will be an hour virtual interview where you will meet folks from the Smart Security engineering team as well as leadership. This will allow you to get to know the team you would be joining and for the team to learn more about you.
  
  

With ecobee, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Be part of something big: Get to work in a fresh, dynamic, and ever-growing industry.
• Make a difference for the environment: Make a sustainable impact while on your daily job, and after it through programs like ecobee acts.
• Expand your career: Learn with our in-house learning enablement team, and enjoy our generous professional learning budget.
• Put people first: Benefit from competitive salaries, health benefits, and a progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off).
• Play a part on an exceptional culture: Enjoy a fun and casual workplace with an open concept office, located at Queens Quay W & York St. ecobee Leeds is based at our riverside office on the Calls.
• Celebrate diversity: Be part of a truly welcoming workplace. We offer a mentorship program and bias training.
  
  

Are you interested? Let's make it work.

Our people are empowered to take ownership of their schedules with workflows that allow for flexible hours. Based on your job, you have an option of a office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work environment. New team members working remotely, will have all necessary equipment provided and shipped to them, and we conduct our interviews and onboarding sessions primarily through video.

We’re committed to inclusion and accommodation.

ecobee believes that openness and diversity make us better. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply regardless of race, gender, age, religion, identity, or any other aspect which makes them unique. Accommodations can be made upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Our recruitment team is happy to answer any questions candidates may have about virtual interviewing, onboarding, and future work locations.

We’re up to incredible things. Come and be part of them.

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