Senior Software Engineer Backend

WeaveGrid • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our software solves the most critical emerging grid integration challenges to ensure that the impending energy transition is clean, equitable, and resilient. Our enterprise solutions help the grid absorb the coming electrification wave with ease. Utilizing modern, cloud-native platform architecture and robust systems optimization, WeaveGrid’s software is built from the ground up to tackle the most critical network challenges while meeting the stringent regulatory, security, and reliability requirements of the utility industry. WeaveGrid's clean energy SaaS products monitor and manage a growing portfolio of distributed energy resources, including electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems, on behalf of electric utilities. We are seeking a seasoned backend engineer to independently design, implement, and deploy software with our partner device manufacturers and utilities. In this role, you will contribute to the technical direction of the team and help raise the bar for engineering quality. The impact of your code will be broad, from deeply integrating with diverse device manufacturer APIs, to monitoring and understanding battery status, to scheduling and verifying optimal charge or discharge plans, to ingesting, aggregating, and integrating signals from various utility sources.

Requirements

• Driven to use your skills and talents to help fix the climate crisis
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex backend systems independently
• If working remotely, available to collaborate with team members during standard US West Coast working hours
• If based in the San Francisco Bay Area, will be working from our San Francisco office 2 days/week
• Care about the craft of software and feel a sense of ownership about code
• Leverage AI tools effectively in your workflow, including for coding, while maintaining the engineering judgment to critically evaluate and catch AI-generated errors or subtle incorrectness
• Enjoy solving hard technical problems and are excited to tackle the complexity of software that interacts with the real world
• Think in systems, independently scoping and delivering end-to-end projects with an understanding of how your work fits into the broader architecture - and proactively surface and resolve ambiguity rather than waiting for it to be clarified
• Proficient in a language like Go or Python and have expertise building microservices in a cloud-based backend
• Enjoy being hands-on in the full lifecycle of software development: early design, testing, production deployment, post-launch iteration, measuring and monitoring outcomes, and quickly fixing problems that may arise
• Thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment, where priorities frequently shift to meet changing business needs and help others navigate that ambiguity effectively

Responsibilities

• Design and produce high quality code for robustness, testability, and maintainability
• Work with our Python backend, relational database schemas, and microservice architecture & develop deep ownership of your area of work, including its long-term health, reliability, and technical debt
• Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to design and deliver new, scalable product features that expand our platform’s DERMS capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve system reliability, data quality, effectiveness, and scalability across our product and codebase.
• Own rollouts, instrumentation, alerting, and reliability monitoring in our production cloud environment
• Create brand new capabilities with new partners while reusing and generalizing existing modules
• Use Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Jira/Confluence, and CircleCI
• Participate in on-call rotations, periodically (~once per quarter) serving as the frontline presence for monitoring, diagnosing, and triaging production service issues
• Contribute to the growth of the team through mentorship, design reviews, and code reviews, and serve as an effective interviewer for engineering candidates
• Coordinate with multiple teams across several codebases in the engineering organization
• Contribute to team prioritization by identifying and proposing improvements to your area of work, including new capabilities, reliability investments, and technical debt reduction
• Special projects and other duties as designated by your manager or assigned designee

Benefits

• equity (stock options)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior