Senior Software Engineer, Voltus
Spectacle
$160-190k
+ 10% bonus paid semi-annually, and equity
More information about location
Distributed energy resource connection and management
Open for applications
Distributed energy resource connection and management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$160-190k
+ 10% bonus paid semi-annually, and equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the distributed energy platform that fulfills the promise of the energy transition.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- Team Spectacle 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
The push towards green energy, in combination with the sharp pivot away from traditional energy sources like natural gas, has accelerated the development and commercialisation of new electrical supply solutions. One such solution is the leveraging of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs): small scale supply or demand resources that can be hooked up to the electric grid to help meet (or ease) demand.
Voltus helps broker this connection between DERs and the grid, allowing commercial owners of DERs to connect them to all the wholesale electricity markets in Canada and the US, and thereby gain and manage a potentially substantial additional income stream.
Voltus doesn’t manage as much load as competitors in the space like Enel X and CPower, but with its 2021 SPAC funding, it’s aggressively driving to capture more of what’s quickly becoming a hefty market opportunity. Behind-the-meter loads like water heaters and AC, and energy sources like microgrids and EV chargers are increasingly sought after by businesses and land owners, and Voltus is benefitting from partnerships with large businesses such as Madison Square Gardens Arena and Western Grain Marketing.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$31m
SERIES C
Oct 2020
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $66.1m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Unlimited leave for full-time employees
- Parental leave
- Comprehensive benefits package to promote health, wellness, and financial security
Company HQ
Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Gregg Dixon
(CEO)Originally worked as a Principal at Oliver Wyman, then took on various VP and SVP roles at Crayola, Amerada Hess - Hess Microgen, and EnerNOC.
Matthew Plante
(President)Spent time as VP of Sales first at EnerNOC, then at Bidgely. Subsequently served as CEO of EcoFactor.
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