Software Engineer, Product Experience

Verse • San Francisco, CA

2d • $150,000 - $240,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Verse is building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. The role involves being a member of the technical staff developing product experiences for Dispatch Intelligence users, who are customers with battery energy storage systems. This is a full stack role requiring design, development, and maintenance of frontend and backend components of the energy storage suite of applications.

Requirements

• Customer empathy and obsession to craft quality user experiences
• Hands-on experience working in both frontend (e.g. Typescript, React) and backend (e.g. Go, Python) software ecosystems
• Ability to translate complex product requirements into functional software, and speak the language of engineers and designers
• Commitment to delivering high quality software on time or ahead of schedule while adhering to best software development practices
• Continuous obsession for staying informed on contemporary technologies, tools, libraries, services, frameworks, or breakthroughs that could benefit the team
• Discipline using generative AI tools in day-to-day work

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor’s degree or higher, not necessarily in a STEM field
• Senior or Staff level software development talent and up
• Proven track record being a technical leader in high-performing product engineering teams
• Expert programming skills with Typescript and Go, advanced experience with Python is a big plus
• Advanced experience developing in the gRPC + Protocol Buffer ecosystem (we use Buf’s Connect SDK)
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, SQL and cloud storage (e.g. GCS or S3)
• Experience authoring and maintaining UI kits, design systems, component libraries
• Keen sense and natural intuition for UI/UX design principles
• Understanding of content delivery networks (CDN) and edge server solutions
• Desire to be a generalist throughout the product engineering stack
• Cloud-native system design and architecture knowledge, especially with container-based tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Technical project management skills in agile, product-focused teams
• Willingness and flexibility to operate in high-pressure environments where priorities can easily shift or pivot depending on user need

Responsibilities

• Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and proactive communication with a high degree of transparency, mutual respect, and consideration for teammates
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UI/UX designers, and other engineers to develop intuitive, user-friendly Buyer Solutions software experiences
• Design, build, test, debug, maintain, and scale user-facing software and closely related components up and down the stack
• Integrate frontend components with backend APIs while efficiently rendering and presenting interactive data visualizations
• Implement backend APIs, middleware, and integrate these layers with databases
• Manage user authentication and authorization, sessions, and tokens using services like Clerk or Auth0 for secure user login systems.
• Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability with content delivery networks
• Evaluate and recommend new software tools, systems, and architectures as the product evolves

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity grant at a high-growth start up
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance, and 401k
• Flexible hours and unlimited PTO
• Diverse and inclusive working environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree