Job description
Are you interested in building the technical foundation of the worldwide transition to clean energy?
Voltus seeks to transform a diverse network of distributed energy resources (DERs) into reliable and responsive virtual power plants in wholesale energy markets. DERs can be anything behind an electric meter: demand response, batteries, micro-grids, residential solar, EV bus fleets, smart thermostats, and more.
The Product Platform team builds the core services and APIs that power Voltus’s virtual power plants. This team is responsible for the central business logic that enables us to manage a diverse and growing portfolio of distributed energy resources (DERs) in wholesale energy markets. We approach our work from a systems engineering perspective, and emphasize high reliability, thoughtful abstractions, and root-cause solutions.
Our primary stack runs on AWS and includes Go, Python, React, Hashistack, and Docker. We are heavily data driven, and use tools like Jupyter and Datadog to measure and understand our work. We value systems thinking and use techniques like Domain Driven Design to manage complexity.
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 likes to think about systems, we’d love to hear from you.
Areas we work in:
- Intuitive internal APIs and reliable data products to form the building blocks of our demand response platform
- Public-facing API (https://api.voltus.co) and developer documentation
- Unified platform for collecting and processing customer documents and utility data
- Providing accurate, timely, and effective notifications for grid emergency events to coordinate customer and internal response
- 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
- Collaborate with external partners, such as metering, battery, solar, residential, or commercial energy management systems, utilities, and ISOs
- Contribute to the engineering roadmap, vision, and goals
- Establish clear and specific success criteria with key stakeholders
- Develop technical strategies for tackling new products, markets, and DER types
- Provide mentorship and coaching to more junior team members
Requirements:
- 4+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with cloud native application design and development using APIs, containers, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience with building data models and managing database migrations
- Understanding of modern API design and best practices
- Ability to write maintainable, modular, and well-tested code
$160,000 - $190,000 a year
Base pay is $160,000-190,000 annually, commensurate with experience, with 10% bonus paid semi-annually, and equity. In addition to a competitive compensation package, Voltus offers a range of benefits including: unlimited leave for full-time employees, parental leave, and a comprehensive benefits package to promote health, wellness, and financial security.
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.
