Backend Software Engineer

About WeaveGrid

The future of transportation is electric. WeaveGrid’s software solves the most critical emerging electrification challenges to ensure that the impending energy transition is as clean, resilient, and sustainable as possible. We leverage modern cloud platforms in conjunction with custom-built complex system optimizations to address the most vexing challenges in grid integration while meeting the stringent regulatory, security, and reliability requirements of the utility industry.

About the Role

WeaveGrid’s electric vehicle charging SaaS products monitor and manage charging on behalf of electric utilities. We are seeking a strong backend engineer to design, implement, and deploy software that interacts with our partner device manufacturers and utilities. The impact of your code will be broad, from monitoring and understanding vehicle battery charge status, to scheduling and verifying optimal charge plans, to ingesting, aggregating, and integrating signals from various utility sources. 

In this role, we will ask you to:

• Design and write code for robustness, testability, and maintainability & produce consistently high quality code
• Work with our Python backend, relational database schemas, and microservice architecture & master technical aspects of your area of work
• Conduct rollouts and instrumentation in our production cloud environment
• Work closely with other engineers and product stakeholders to extend our product capabilities and improve the reliability, data quality, effectiveness, and scalability of our existing offerings
• Create brand new capabilities with new partners that require new modules to be built from scratch
• Use Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Jira/Confluence, and CircleCI
• Participate in on-call rotations, periodically serving as the frontline presence for monitoring, diagnosing, and triaging production service issues
• Grow your engineering skills and help others on the team do the same by participating in design reviews and code reviews
• Coordinate with multiple teams across several codebases in the engineering organization
• Special projects and other duties as designated by your manager or assigned designee. 

About You

• You are driven to use your skills and talents to help fix the climate crisis
• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or 3-5 years of relevant engineering experience
• If working remotely, you are available to collaborate with team members during standard US West Coast working hours
• If you’re based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be working from our San Francisco office 3 days/week
• You care about the craft of software and feel a sense of ownership about code
• You enjoy solving hard technical problems and are excited to tackle the complexity of software that interacts with the real world
• You are comfortable implementing and shipping end-to-end features on projects once the most important assumptions have been clarified
• You have an interest in building microservices that will run in a cloud-based backend
• You are proficient in a language like Go or Python
• You 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
• You thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment, where priorities frequently shift to meet changing business needs

The total compensation for this opportunity includes a base salary range of $120,000 - $160,000 plus equity (stock options) and benefits. This is our target compensation range and is subject to multiple factors including role, level, experience, and location. Please note that WeaveGrid may not necessarily hire individuals at or near the top of the base salary range. As you go through our interview process, our recruiter will work with you to identify a competitive base salary within the proposed range and combine it with an equity package to get you excited about your future at WeaveGrid.