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Community Manager and Support Lead

Chai Energy provides the first-ever digital and truly personal energy advisor built on top of a customer’s own energy data. Chai’s personal energy experience is powered by the data captured from over 50 million smart electric meters installed by utility companies throughout the US. In making energy-decisions simple for customers Chai is easing the adoption of energy efficient products, distributed generation resources, time-based electricity pricing, and other products aimed at mitigating the negative impact of our electric grid.

ABOUT CHAI ENERGY
Chai Energy is a venture-backed clean energy technology startup with offices in Eagle Rock and downtown Los Angeles at the LA Cleantech Incubator. The free Chai mobile app requires expertise in data analysis, machine learning, energy markets, efficiency programs, and enterprise engineering. The company was started by Caltech graduates and former utility employees looking to build a fundamentally better and more personal consumer energy-experience.

Community Manager and Support Lead, Los Angeles

Chai Energy is looking for a customer support professional to help us give customers the power to understand their homes and energy waste. Chai Energy is rolling out its award winning energy understanding service at a massive scale and needs your help to make our customers happy. A customer support professional would help our customers with their issues, build structure around our device deployment processes, and support the mobile application quality assurance effort. This role will need an understanding of residential energy systems including the plusses and minuses of solar, battery systems, electric vehicles, or home upgrade projects.  

Responsibilities

• Provide support and consultation to Chai Energy mobile app customers
• Help customers navigate the complex world of residential energy systems including solar, electric vehicles, and home upgrades
• Building excitement around new product features
• Manage the Chai support ticket system

Qualifications

• Experiences in residential energy management from the solar industry, energy auditor, or another related industry
• 3+ years of experience in a customer care role
• 1+ years of experience in building a quality assurance process for mobile applications
• An expertise for building deployment and customer service processes that can scale through the growth phase of a company
• An ability to build a community around a product
• You can stay calm and helpful in the face of difficult customer questions
• You have a cursory understanding of technology and networking with an ability to build simple scripts

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experiences with ZenDesk
• Experience with CRM systems
• Android Studio and Xcode experience

Updated March 2017

Please send your resume to Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net if you are interested in the position.

Lead Android Developer

Chai Energy provides the first-ever digital and truly personal energy advisor built on top of a customer’s own energy data. Chai’s personal energy experience is powered by the data captured from over 50 million smart electric meters installed by utility companies throughout the US. In making energy-decisions simple for customers Chai is easing the adoption of energy efficient products, distributed generation resources, time-based electricity pricing, and other products aimed at mitigating the negative impact of our electric grid.

ABOUT CHAI ENERGY
Chai Energy is a venture-backed clean energy technology startup with offices in Eagle Rock and downtown Los Angeles at the LA Cleantech Incubator. The free Chai mobile app requires expertise in data analysis, machine learning, energy markets, efficiency programs, and enterprise engineering. The company was started by Caltech graduates and former utility employees looking to build a fundamentally better and more personal consumer energy-experience.

Lead Android Developer, Los Angeles
As our lead Android Developer you’ll be responsible for Chai Energy’s iOS client. Chai’s mobile app is built on top of the latest networking and visualization technology that mobile has to offer. You will be responsible for incorporating product, business strategy, usability, and architectural considerations into the mobile client. You will be working with the backend dev team, business strategy teams, testers, and designers to ensure the best possible experience

Responsibilities

• Develop new features in the Chai mobile client including data visualization and energy insights
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies available in the Google ecosystem and develop a strategy on their applicability to Chai
• Maintain the Chai mobile application including API changes, OS updates, and general code refactoring
• Drive product and design strategy from the ground level, ensuring product quality stays consistent and high
• Manage the build, deployment system in tandem with the quality assurance process

Qualifications

• Native Android development with Java 7/8 2+ years. You should know what lambdas and annotations are
• Experience with layout-based and code-based UI development; knowledge of Fragment lifecycle a plus
• Able to integrate third-party software; know when to write your own code vs extending something made elsewhere
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-starter, able to handle multiple simultaneous tasks
• Understanding of package management.

Preferred Skills

• iOS (Objective-C)
• Python
• HTML, Javascript, CSS
• RxJava, Retrofit experience
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Jenkins for automated builds

Send Resumes To:
Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net

Updated September 2016

Please send your resume to Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net if you are interested in the position.

Lead iOS Developer

Chai Energy provides the first-ever digital and truly personal energy advisor built on top of a customer’s own energy data. Chai’s personal energy experience is powered by the data captured from over 50 million smart electric meters installed by utility companies throughout the US. In making energy-decisions simple for customers Chai is easing the adoption of energy efficient products, distributed generation resources, time-based electricity pricing, and other products aimed at mitigating the negative impact of our electric grid.

ABOUT CHAI ENERGY

Chai Energy is a venture-backed clean energy technology startup with offices in Eagle Rock and downtown Los Angeles at the LA Cleantech Incubator. The free Chai mobile app requires expertise in data analysis, machine learning, energy markets, efficiency programs, and enterprise engineering. The company was started by Caltech graduates and former utility employees looking to build a fundamentally better and more personal consumer energy-experience.

Lead iOS Developer, Los Angeles
As our lead iOS Developer you’ll be responsible for Chai Energy’s iOS client. Chai’s mobile app is built on top of the latest networking and visualization technology that mobile has to offer. You will be responsible for incorporating product, business strategy, usability, and architectural considerations into the mobile client. You will be working with the backend dev team, business strategy teams, testers, and designers to ensure the best possible experience

Responsibilities

• Develop new features in the Chai mobile client including data visualization and energy insights
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies available in the Apple ecosystem and develop a strategy on their applicability to Chai
• Maintain the Chai mobile application including API changes, OS updates, and general code refactoring
• Drive product and design strategy from the ground level, ensuring product quality stays consistent and high
• Manage the build, deployment system in tandem with the quality assurance process

Qualifications

• Objective-C 2+ years (our app does not use Swift; if you are a Swift-only developer, this position is NOT for you)
• UITableviews, UICollectionviews, AFNetworking, and layer animations
• Able to integrate third-party software; know when to write your own code vs extending something made elsewhere
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-starter, able to handle multiple simultaneous tasks
• Cocoapods and and understanding of package management.

Preferred Skills

• Android (Java)
• Python
• HTML, Javascript, CSS
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Jenkins for automated builds

Send Resumes To:
Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net

Updated September 2016

Please send your resume to Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net if you are interested in the position.

Mobile Development Intern (iOS)

Chai Energy provides the first-ever digital and truly personal energy advisor built on top of a customer’s own energy data. Chai’s personal energy experience is powered by the data captured from over 50 million smart electric meters installed by utility companies throughout the US. In making energy-decisions simple for customers Chai is easing the adoption of energy efficient products, distributed generation resources, time-based electricity pricing, and other products aimed at mitigating the negative impact of our electric grid.

ABOUT CHAI ENERGY

Chai Energy is a venture-backed clean energy technology startup with offices in Eagle Rock and downtown Los Angeles at the LA Cleantech Incubator. The free Chai mobile app requires expertise in data analysis, machine learning, energy markets, efficiency programs, and enterprise engineering. The company was started by Caltech graduates and former utility employees looking to build a fundamentally better and more personal consumer energy-experience.

Mobile iOS Developer intern, Los Angeles
As an iOS Developer intern you’ll support Chai Energy’s iOS client. Chai’s mobile app is built on top of the latest networking and visualization technology that mobile has to offer. You will help with the  product vision, business strategy, usability, and architectural considerations into the mobile client. You will be working with our lead mobile developer, the backend dev team, business strategy teams, testers, and designers to ensure the best possible experience

Responsibilities

• Develop new features in the Chai mobile client including data visualization and energy insights
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies available in the Apple ecosystem and develop a strategy on their applicability to Chai
• Maintain the Chai mobile application including API changes, OS updates, and general code refactoring
• Drive product and design strategy from the ground level, ensuring product quality stays consistent and high
• Manage the build, deployment system in tandem with the quality assurance process

Qualifications

• Objective-C 1+ years (our app does not use Swift; if you are a Swift-only developer, this position is NOT for you)
• UITableviews, UICollectionviews, AFNetworking, and layer animations
• Able to integrate third-party software; know when to write your own code vs extending something made elsewhere
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-starter, able to handle multiple simultaneous tasks
• Cocoapods and and understanding of package management.

Preferred Skills

• Android (Java)
• Python
• HTML, Javascript, CSS
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Jenkins for automated builds

Send Resumes To:
Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net

Updated December 2016

Please send your resume to Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net if you are interested in the position.

Senior Software Developer and Lead Architect

Chai Energy provides the first-ever digital and truly personal energy advisor built on top of a customer’s own energy data. Chai’s personal energy experience is powered by the data captured from over 50 million smart electric meters installed by utility companies throughout the US. In making energy-decisions simple for customers Chai is easing the adoption of energy efficient products, distributed generation resources, time-based electricity pricing, and other products aimed at mitigating the negative impact of our electric grid.

ABOUT CHAI ENERGY

Chai Energy is a venture-backed clean energy technology startup with offices in Eagle Rock and downtown Los Angeles at the LA Cleantech Incubator. The free Chai mobile app requires expertise in data analysis, machine learning, energy markets, efficiency programs, and enterprise engineering. The company was started by Caltech graduates and former utility employees looking to build a fundamentally better and more personal consumer energy-experience.

Senior Software Developer and Lead Architect, Los Angeles

Chai Energy is seeking senior software developers and architects to help us give customers the power to understand their homes and energy waste. Chai Energy’s mobile iOS app is tasked with boiling down complex energy reports into a simple, easy to use, and fun mobile experience that gives customers an understanding of their electric bill. Chai receives data from each of its customers every couple second and must very rapidly run that data through various analytic engines, store that data, transform that data, and all around make it useful to the user. Chai is looking for an experienced architect who can not only guide and motivate the dev team but can also get down and dirty with the code to get product built.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• 5+ years of full time web development or full stack experience.
• 3+ years of Python experience.
• Strong grasp of API construction and maintenance best practices
• Strong grasp of database schema and optimization best practices
• An understanding of Postgres and Cassandra
• Well rounded knowledge of and dedication to testing and documentation best practices
• Experiencing in coordinating, leading, and guiding a complex development project across a team
• Great problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience in designing and building complex applications from the ground up
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or an inhuman ability for self-learning

Preferred Skills

• Android (Java)
• Python
• HTML, Javascript, CSS
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Jenkins for automated builds

Send Resumes To:
Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net

Updated December 2016

Please send your resume to Jobs@ChaiEnergy.net if you are interested in the position.