Staff Engineer, Arcadia
$146.3-262k
Plus equity
More information about location
Climate software & data company
Open for applications
Climate software & data company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$146.3-262k
Plus equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Arcadia's mission is to stop climate change and break the fossil fuel monopoly by making clean energy simple and accessible for all.
Role
Who you are
- A passion for sustainability and the clean-energy mission
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in Java, Python, DBT, Snowflake, and AWS
- Proficiency in using AI coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code to accelerate personal and team velocity
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with a track record of gaining alignment on technical solutions, mentoring teammates, and overcoming obstacles with a team-player mindset
- Motivation to make fast data-driven decisions, move on them urgently, and finish what you start
- Passionate learner, staying on top of best coding practices including AI-driven-development and AI tooling
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (L5) to serve as a strategic technical leader within our engineering organization for the foundational backend systems that power our flagship utility data products
- As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical direction of your team and its alignment with our greater architectural principles
- You will serve as a subject matter expert in crafting scalable backend services during a pivotal period of rapid scaling at Arcadia
- You are an expert at leveraging AI coding tools to accelerate development and product quality, acting as a mentor to others on responsible, secure, and effective AI usage
- Lead the development of the rapidly scaling backend systems that power our flagship utility data products
- Model high technical standards, reduce technical debt, and provide guidance on shipping modular, maintainable code
- Lead the evaluation of new technologies, making well-reasoned technical trade-offs informed by deep domain expertise and long-term cost/benefit analysis
- Design scalable data engineering workflows for tables with 400+ million rows
- Navigate production incidents when they occur and stay calm under pressure
- Proactively discover, document, and solve gaps in our platform and developer experience
- Mentor engineers and other team members
- Lead by example to enforce rigorous standards for code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, and the maintenance of critical documentation
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members to design solutions with the context of the entire platform in mind
- Create systems that leverage AI to improve day-to-day engineering processes
- Serve as a partner to our customers and the Product team, mapping business strategy and market trends to improve customer experience
Our take
Arcadia believes that without access to clear and actionable consumer data, companies’ climate plans are likely to prove fruitless. Fortunately, data is something Arcadia has an abundance of, with access to 95% of US utility accounts.
The company actually started with a B2C model, matching residents with suitable renewable energy sources based on their utility bill data, then shifted into community solar projects. Now armed with a high volume of consensually-shared customer data, Arcadia’s B2B API platform, Arc, allows companies to access its datasets in order to optimize their offerings.
The platform is used by companies such as electric vehicle charging network EVgo, Ford, Oracle, and Airbnb. Its growing popularity and growth potential helped Arcadia win major investment in 2024, which will support the further development of its products and help to accelerate its community solar business.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Dec 2022
$125m
LATE VC
Total funding: $561m
Company benefits
- Remote first culture: Work anywhere in the US as long as you have a reliable internet connection.
- Flexible PTO: No accrued hours and no limit on the number of vacation days employees can take each year.
- Medical, dental, and vision: 80-95% employer cost coverage for medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents. Transparency in coverage.
- Company-wide holidays: 15 annual company-wide holidays including a week long "summer break".
- Weekly "flex time": No internal meetings on Tuesdays and Friday afternoons.
- Paid leave: 12 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, 10 days sick leave, up to 4 weeks bereavement leave.
- Additional time off: 2 volunteer days off, 2 professional development days off.
Company HQ
Greenwood Village, CO
Leadership
Kiran Bhatraju
(CEO & Founder)Former Legislative Assistant for the US House of Representatives, and former Truman National Security Project Fellow. Board Member at AppHarvest and member of the World Wildlife Fund National Council. Founded and was Director of Business Development at Energy company American Efficient from 2010 to 2014.
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