Staff Software Engineer

piq-energy•United States (Remote),

12h•$200,000 - $250,000•Remote

About The Position

Piq Energy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop, deploy, and maintain user-facing applications, backend APIs, databases, and cloud deployment infrastructure. This early hire will have substantial responsibility and opportunities to own features and help shape the user experience and technical architecture. The engineer will collaborate with software engineers, power systems experts, data scientists, and designers to deliver a performant SaaS platform. The role involves developing end-to-end features across backend services, data pipelines, AI agents, and interactive frontend applications. The engineer will lead workstreams from gathering product requirements through architecture, implementation planning, dependency management, and rollout. They will work with users and customer-facing teammates, help scale and secure the platform, mentor teammates, and contribute to engineering practices and technical planning. Piq Energy builds automated network model management and autonomous grid planning and interconnection software to support generation, storage, and load developers, utilities, and system operators. The company is remote-friendly, with hubs in San Francisco and Athens. The San Francisco team works from a coworking space in person two to three days per week, and the team meets for on-sites two to three times per year. The stated compensation is a location-adjusted base salary of $200,000–$250,000 plus equity.

Requirements

10 or more years of software engineering industry experience delivering high-quality software.
Experience building scalable software starting from user needs.
Deep experience in either building data-intensive backend systems with Python or a similar language, or developing interactive, data-rich frontend applications with modern JavaScript frameworks.
Willingness to work across the stack as needed.
Experience owning successful software delivery end-to-end.
Experience with version control, testing, and debugging tools.
Ability to help evolve a growing engineering team.
Comfort with LLM coding tools such as Cursor and Claude Code.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a bias toward action.
Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience improving DevOps, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, or cloud infrastructure, and supporting security compliance.
Experience delivering for enterprise customers.
Experience with workflow orchestration and LLM APIs and frameworks.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain end-to-end features across backend APIs, data pipelines, AI agents, and interactive frontends.
Lead workstreams end-to-end, including gathering product requirements, proposing solution architectures, developing implementation plans, managing technical dependencies, and coordinating rollouts.
Collaborate directly with users and customer-facing teammates to gather feedback, understand needs, and translate insights into design solutions.
Build and maintain data-rich, interactive frontend applications.
Scale backend APIs, systems, and data pipelines to support more use cases while maintaining systems and paying down technical debt.
Ensure the platform is performant, scalable, and secure.
Provide hands-on mentorship and feedback to teammates.
Write clean, maintainable code following best practices.
Participate in and lead design discussions, code reviews, and technical planning meetings.
Improve software engineering practices with a bias toward action, fast iteration, and delivery of impactful solutions.