About Us

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference in your next role?

At Basis, our purpose is to radically accelerate the clean-energy revolution - starting with smarter, safer, and more efficient homes. We’re focused on improving experiences for people through the application of technology, data, and a deep understanding of human behaviour.

Why? As a society, we need to decarbonise and accelerate the transition to alternative energy sources. Existing solutions are expensive and disparate, with limited functionality.

Basis is driven by purpose, real innovation, and ambition. We have a talented team spread across New Zealand, with a creative space by the beach in Takapuna, and a Design Lab in Christchurch where our physical products come to life.

Our team is smart, curious and has some big goals - so if you’re interested in joining a fast-growing and startup that is design-led and puts people at its core, then we’d love to hear from you!

The Role

Basis has an exciting opportunity for an Intermediate Embedded Engineer to join the crew. We have an existing team, systems outlines, concepts, functional prototypes, test setups, and scripts - and we need to resolve these to deliver a real product to market.

To be clear - you will not be polishing some ancient code or tinkering around the edges - this is a jump-in boots-and-all opportunity. This is a highly complex distributed IOT system - interfacing cloud connected systems containing complex processing, configuration, and control. If this sounds exciting to you, then keep reading.

Some of the things that you might be involved in include:

• Prototyping: Assisting our systems team with rapid prototyping of new concepts to realise and validate IP blocks.
• Real-time SW: Implementing real-time sensor and communication integrations, complex analytic algorithms, and supervisory systems.
• Distributed Systems: Implementing distributed multi-processor systems and communications strategies.
• IOT: Implementing the cloud connectivity, security protocols, authentication and data management of an IOT system.
• Safe Software: Implementing safe regulatory-compliant software - and all that entails to achieve this. Maintaining security practices suitable for a modern IoT system.
• Testing: Setting up and maintaining software test frameworks including continuous integration systems.
• Code review: reviewing the code written by Basis peers to ensure quality, collaboration and conformance.

Please note: this role is hybrid between working from home and office (no set in office days) and we would prefer the successful candidate to be located in Auckland or Christchurch.

About You

We think you’ll be a fit for this role if you possess the following skills or experience:

• At least 4 years experience developing embedded software in either C or C++ and FreeRTOS (or similar)
• A tertiary qualification in electronics, mechatronics, software development, or relevant experience
• Experience writing low level embedded software
• Comfort in working with uncertainty, using your initiative, and doing what it takes to solve problems
• A team player who is effective at working within a cross-discipline team, contributing to overall product creation
• A desire to sprint, iterate and understand when to go fast vs when to be detailed
• An understanding of the wider system beyond software, and an ability to articulate the impact of systems decisions on software and vice versa

Some nice to haves include (you do not need to have all of these to be considered, but please highlight this experience in your application):

• A background in safety critical software development, or familiarity in working with robust engineering practices and certifiable software
• Experience programming in Python, digital signal processing, IoT device security, Go and Embedded Linux
• Experience working with Modbus, BLE, Ethernet, WiFi, TCP/IP, MQTT, AWS, LwM2M, CoAP or LTE-M
  

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet ~ 60% of the job criteria, women and other marginalised groups tend to apply only when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box email talent@wearebasis.com to find out more 🙌

Benefits

• A competitive salary and employee share scheme (ESOP)
• A remote-friendly culture - work from home or come into the office, it's totally up to you
• Unlimited annual leave so that you can take the time that you need to re-energise
• Tools of trade, including laptop and headphones, and we also pay your phone bill!
• Flexible hours - we focus on effort and outcomes, so adjust your hours around your children, hobbies, or other commitments
• Monthly team events (Lego BattleBots, Board Games, Tram Driving, what's next?)
• Office dogs
• Access to Clearhead, our well-being programme which gives you 5x free sessions with a psychologist per year
• A $200 one-off payment towards your home workstation
• A commitment to diversity and inclusion: Pride Committee, DEIB Committee, EEO Policy and well-being strategy!
• Parental leave policy that tops up wages to 100% for the primary caregiver for up to 22 weeks (conditions apply)
• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!

Let's Talk!

We’d love to hear from you! No need to submit a cover letter - just click 'apply' to answer a few short questions of ours (we find this gives us more insight) and attach your CV.

If you have any questions about the role, fire them over to Steph at talent@wearebasis.com

Department

Engineering

Role

Software

Locations

Christchurch, Auckland

Remote status

Hybrid Remote