Design and implement APIs, manage data models, and contribute to engineering initiatives in the clean energy sector. The role involves mentoring and collaborating with experts in energy markets while developing scalable and maintainable systems.
Are you interested in building the data products behind the worldwide transition to clean energy?
Team Spectacle (our Customer Platform team) sits at the heart of Voltus, building the software and data services for our core business. Our work spans data-intensive web applications for real-time performance and grid monitoring to services that manage financial forecasting and payment.
We reduce the enormous complexity of quantifying and compensating thousands of participants in demand response events to a product-oriented approach that streamlines and centralizes data processing pipelines, warehouses, and APIs.
Our primary stack runs on AWS and includes Python, React, Hashistack, and Docker. We are extremely data driven and spend a lot of time working in Clickhouse, Deltalake, Postgres, and Kafka. We value systems thinking and use techniques like Domain Driven Design to manage complexity.
We are also a team who owns both frontend and backend. While we require an engineer with deep experience in data and backend engineering, those open to or experienced with front end engineering are also encouraged to apply.
This is an opportunity to do complex, interesting, and impactful work with a team of empathetic human beings. If you’re a holistic problem solver who’s excited to grow, learn, and contribute, we’d love to hear from you.
Areas we work in:
- Intuitive internal APIs and data intensive products to form the building blocks of our demand response platform
- Unified platform for generating financial line items and shepherding them through to customer payments.
- A suite of web applications intended to inform and delight customers and internal users alike.
- Internal tools (e.g. analytics, scripting environments) to provide pragmatic solutions for technically proficient internal users
Responsibilities for this role:
- Design and implement modular, composable primitives and APIs to capture core business logic for operating a growing portfolio of diverse energy resources
- Understand energy industry rules, regulations, and standards to effectively design software that meets our needs. We are domain experts in our business in ways that exceed the expectations of individual engineering contributors at a normal tech startup.
- Work closely with internal experts in energy markets to translate complicated market dynamics into discoverable, extensible, well-documented production code.
- Contribute to the engineering roadmap, vision, and goals.
- Establish clear and specific success criteria with key stakeholders.
- Lead major initiatives on a wide range of work that includes new customer-facing products, complex automations for internal stakeholders, and data infrastructure scaling.
- Provide mentorship and coaching to more junior team members.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software engineering industry experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with designing durable data models and managing them at scale.
- Experience with cloud native application design and development using APIs, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
- A strong background in system architecture.
- Experience translating complex business domains into maintainable, scalable systems.
- A passion for well-tested, readable, maintainable code.
Please note that at this time, we do not sponsor visas or transfers for new hires. Voltus teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location (in the US or Canada, unless otherwise indicated on the role description).
Additionally, while Voltus is an all-remote workplace, we have limitations on where employees are able to work for regulatory and security reasons. We expect that Voltans are working primarily from their home country. Working while traveling to other countries must be approved as per our Global Remote Travel Policy.
At Voltus, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer because we recognize that a diverse organization begins with a diverse candidate pool. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or marital status.
Top Skills
AWS
Clickhouse
Deltalake
Docker
Hashistack
Kafka
Postgres
Python
React
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