Senior Software Development Engineer

NextEra Energy•Saint Paul, MN

About The Position

NextEra Analytics offers energy consulting services using industry-leading scientific analysis for planning, siting, forecasting and optimizing all forms of energy projects. Our optimization and analytics platforms integrate open-source technologies to leverage massive, diverse sets of utility operating data. This enables rapid development of operational solutions. Applying expertise in advanced mathematics, data and physical sciences, we solve some of the hardest problems facing the energy industry. We are seeking a high-caliber Senior Software Development Engineer to join a team building customer-centric solutions for the business. This role is designed for a top-tier engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong product intuition and business acumen. You will tackle ambiguous challenges, rapidly prototype solutions directly with stakeholders, and architect scalable, secure systems. You operate with high autonomy, acting as the critical technical bridge that turns business objectives into high-performing software.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
7+ years Experience

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s - Engineering

Responsibilities

Translate loosely defined business problems into clean, robust architectures while anticipating edge cases.
Build functional prototypes with stakeholders to validate ideas instantly and accelerate the feedback loop.
Own features end-to-end across services, data, and UI, making pragmatic technology choices and avoiding unnecessary complexity.
Use agentic AI tools throughout the SDLC to move faster, while maintaining full accountability for code quality, correctness, and security.
Design quality gates, spec-driven workflows, and deterministic checks that catch agent errors before humans do.
Evaluate AI tools and patterns critically, adopting what improves the team's output and discarding what doesn't.
Embed security and compliance into the core of the development lifecycle, proactively mitigating vulnerabilities through secure design.
Build well-tested, maintainable software.
Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and optimized for an exceptional end-user experience.
Make production behavior measurable, debuggable, and recoverable by building observability, alerting, runbooks, and recovery paths into systems from the start.
Take ownership of delivering meaningful business results, managing scope responsibly, and communicating technical risks early.
Partner closely with Product Managers and business leaders.
Articulate complex architectural decisions and tradeoffs in clear, outcome-oriented terms.
Engage security, risk, compliance, and platform teams early, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and make the case when a project calls for a different approach.
Writes and tests software to aid in development and support of products.
Works with Technical Leads on software system architecture and service design.
Leads a module in the system.
Participates in required product development process ceremonies.
Responsible for writing and refining technical requirements and technical design documentation.
Codes in multiple languages in support of software products and the development of software products.
Conducts system testing and codes unit tests and support features.
Documents technical requirement and other technical documentation.
Works with product team to refine product requirements.
Collaborates on high level software design projects and software system architecture and creates effective component level architectures.
Leads software module construction from architecture and design to implementation and may lead a small team of engineers in building the module.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.