SPAN

Smart Home Devices · Energy Management
16open roles
$170kmedian advertised pay
$25Mlatest round · Venture round · Nov 2025 · 11 mo ago
5backers · Wellington Management, Congruent Ventures

Overview

SPAN is a home energy technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2018. The company develops and manufactures smart electrical panels that replace traditional circuit breakers to provide real-time energy monitoring, circuit-level control, and integrated management for solar, battery storage, and electric vehicle charging. It serves residential customers across the United States through a network of certified installers and partners with utilities to enhance grid stability and support home electrification.

How SPAN hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
102 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

SPAN scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 13 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 102 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Funding and backers

Total raised
$25M
1 round on record
Latest round
$25M
Venture round · Nov 2025 · 11 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
28
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Wellington Management, Congruent Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
11 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
54/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 17, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $25M · YahooFinance 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.04%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 4 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Nov 2025 $25M — YahooFinance
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$2.5k – $300k
Open positions
21
21 Jobs
Intern 4.8%
Junior 4.8%
Senior 57.1%
Staff 14.3%
Architect 19%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $2.5k $2.5k
Junior 1 $145k $145k
Senior 12 $160k $132k – $200k
Staff 3 $210k $196k – $230k
Architect 4 $215k $170k – $300k
Highest paying role Head of Security $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at SPAN By role, level and city, against the market · 21 jobs with pay

Visa sponsorship

#1,637 of 8,998 sponsors
10 ▲ 11%
H-1B filings in 12 months
5
Green card filings
$163k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Software developers
4
Electrical engineers
3
Sales engineers
1
2 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Span.IO, Inc., San Francisco, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 9, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
27
5 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
100 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +286%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
23% ▲
Sales
18% ▼
Marketing
9% ▲
Field & Service
9%
Backend
5% ▲
DevOps
5% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added SBOM to stack Oct 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Oct 2026
Added ISO 27001 to stack Oct 2026
Added STL to stack Oct 2026
Added IEEE 1547 to stack Oct 2026
Added IEC 62304 to stack Oct 2026
Added IBM DOORS to stack Oct 2026
Added Git to stack Oct 2026
Added Doxygen to stack Oct 2026
Added DO-178C to stack Oct 2026

Financials

Total raised
$25M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $25M Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at SPAN over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
124
Postings analysed
37
Stack modernity
65/100
Languages
Python59%
C++27%
TypeScript16%
SQL14%
Frameworks & libraries
Flink8%
React Native8%
React.js8%
Micronaut5%
Databases
PostgreSQL5%
Redis3%
Snowflake3%
Cloud & platforms
Linux32%
AWS27%
Kubernetes22%
RTOS22%
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Full SPAN tech stack 124 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Shared investors5
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News

News mcorbin.fr 3 months ago
OpenTelemetry traces: why deprecating span events is a terrible idea
OpenTelemetry traces: why deprecating span events is a terrible idea
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News voxdotcom 3 months ago
How to rebuild your broken attention span
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News slicker.me 4 months ago
Span-First C#: Designing Around Span
Span-First C#: Designing Around Span
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News The Narwhal 4 months ago
For 20 years, Canada's leaders have promised a carbon capture fix
It's expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture - yet to be delivered
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News theatlantic 4 months ago
The Attention-Span Class Divide
Who can afford to sit still at the movies?
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News pcmag 4 months ago
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blogging as therapy & repairing my attention span
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News BGR 5 months ago
This Tech Startup Wants To Put A Mini Nvidia Data Center In Your Home - Here
Nobody wants an AI data center in their figurative backyard, but one company is planning to pay homeowners to put a small data center in their literal backyard.
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News Simon Späti 6 months ago
Should I Change My Writing Style to Short Stories, because of AI and Low Attention Span?
Short-form writing just got much more popular, with the low attention span of people with TikTok and YT shorts.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
16 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 19% engineering 50-200 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Industrial Engineering, Hardware
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Bengaluru India
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 10-50 est. staff $3k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Mobile, DevOps
seen since Jan 2026 job postings
South San Francisco United States
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $155k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
seen since Oct 2026 job postings