Amber is an entirely new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 5 mins and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid. It’s a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.
We are a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly (over 80k customers). We have also recently expanded into licensing our core technology to utilities overseas, including a partnership with E.ON Next in the UK.
Amber is backed by top Australian and international investors including Square Peg, Main Sequence, Breakthrough Victoria, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, Gentrack, ETF Partners (UK/Europe based), and E.ON Next.
We are scaling rapidly and you’d be joining a team of over 200 committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture as we transform a major industry.
Our products are reshaping home energy: Amber for Batteries cuts bills by exporting stored energy at wholesale prices of up to $20/kWh, and Amber for EVs enables the cheapest, cleanest charging. In 2026, we will push this even further with our new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
About the role
We are hiring engineers for our Tech Enablement team - a team that ensures our engineering staff are productive, secure, and supported in doing their best work. We are motivated by helping and unblocking others, and have skills that span documentation, deployment, release tooling, observability, incident management, reliability, continuous integration, and infrastructure.
We use tools and vendors like CDK, Notion, GitHub and GitHub Actions, AWS and serverless, Snowflake, Expo, and Typescript. We support teams that work with tools like React and React Native, AWS Lambda, SQS, Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and Kinesis.
To keep colleagues unblocked we split our time across a planned strategic work, and reactive collaboration. We mix our own expertise with the best patterns we can see working across the organization and define golden paths that make the best solutions easy.
- You have a positive mindset: equal parts curious, collaborative, and can-do
- A minimum of 5 years of commercial software development experience in product development, DevOps, platform or SRE teams
- Experience and opinions about several of the following:
- AWS, particularly serverless architectures, Cloud-formation, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB, and Aurora Postgres
- Infrastructure as code tools and practices
- CI/CD tooling and practices
- Observability
- Incident Management and on-call practices
- Typescript, JavaScript and the Node.js ecosystem
- React, React-Native and the expo ecosystem
- A pragmatic and customer focused approach to collaboration
- Strong verbal and written communication skills built on a foundation of empathy for your fellow humans is essential
- Make sustainable and high quality technical contributions across the stack in the areas of your speciality
- Flexibly contribute outside your speciality in other areas of the stack supporting colleagues when they need it
- Work collaboratively with your peers in product and across the wider company to ensure you're always shipping the right thing the right way at the right time
- Mentor and support other members of the engineering team
- Take high level ownership of technical design and project delivery
- We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.
- You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 200 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
- Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household and grid energy use.
- Enjoy a lively, collaborative workspace at our buzzing Melbourne CBD headquarters in the heart of the city
- Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements.
- Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.
- An external Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for mental health support.
- Competitive salary and share options in Amber.
- Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth.
- Additional PTO between Xmas & New Year
Salary range is between $155,000 and $200,000 base per annum and is quoted excluding superannuation. All full time roles at Amber include employee stock options over and above the base salary and superannuation.
This is a full-time role to be based ideally from Melbourne, but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia.
We are open to discussing 4 days a week or 9 days a fortnight once you're ramped up, if that's what you are looking for.
Amber is a remote first team; we have an office in the Melbourne CBD, where we work flexibly between the office and home. The vast majority of our team are located in Melbourne. For those based in Sydney, they catch up in a co-working space in the city every now and then, and rest of the locations in Australia work from home. While we don't expect people to attend the office, we do expect that people mostly work in the Melbourne time zone to maximise collaboration.
If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Our hiring process will generally be as follows:
- A screening interview with our talent team
- A take-home technical assignment that should take no longer than a few hours
- A follow up technical interview with two members of the engineering team
- A culture + final interview with one of our Engineering Managers and Director of Engineering
We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team.
Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia, preferably Melbourne with full working rights.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.
No recruitment agencies please. We've got this! Thank you.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
