Software Engineer, Uplight

• 5+ years of experience building backend systems in production environments
• Strong expertise in Python and Ruby, Rails and MySQL, with attention to correctness and maintainability
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD best practices
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to simplify and implement complex domain logic
• Passion for clean energy, decarbonization, load shifting, or helping customers engage in grid programs is a strong bonus

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design, build and maintain backend systems that manage fleets of distributed energy resources in different energy markets around the world
• You'll collaborate closely with product managers, energy market participants like electric utilities, and your peers in Uplight Engineering to provide reliable and predictable dispatching and monitoring of a wide array of energy resources
• You will be part of a team focused on modeling energy resources and providing the rest of the organization with data about them, and flexible ways to dispatch them
• The systems you'll own will make it easy for utility control rooms to get exactly the load shed or shift they are looking for
• Hese systems will also be a source of truth for other engineering teams to build features on top of
• Lead the design and development of backend systems that orchestrate fleets of distributed energy resources (DERs)
• Manage structured data—including usage metrics, account information, and device metadata—within relational databases
• Apply domain logic to support eligibility, customer workflows, and operational decision-making
• Develop and maintain robust APIs and event streams that enable customers and partner engineering teams to build DER-based applications
• Collaborate with product and operations teams to translate program logic and business requirements into scalable software solutions
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code following best practices in software engineering
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to system architecture discussions, and drive continuous improvement in backend design

• Application Deadline: November 17, 2025