Frontend Engineer, SkySpecs
$60-100k
Renewable energy asset management
Be an early applicant
Renewable energy asset management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$60-100k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make renewables the most efficient energy source in the world.
Role
Who you are
- We are especially interested in candidates who are strong in interaction design and workflow thinking: people who enjoy diving into a complex domain, collaborating closely with expert users, and shaping interfaces that make dense technical information clear, efficient, and trustworthy
- Our frontend is built in Elm. If you already know Elm, that’s great. If not, we’d still love to hear from you if you are excited by thoughtful frontend engineering and interested in working in a strongly typed functional environment
- This role is a strong fit for someone who sees frontend engineering as more than implementing screens. We are looking for someone who enjoys understanding the underlying domain, asking good questions, and contributing to how the product should work
- We don’t expect every candidate to match every point below, but strong candidates will identify with many of them
- Solid frontend engineering experience building modern web applications
- Strong interest in interaction design, workflow design, and product usability
- Ability to work through complex or ambiguous problems in collaboration with others
- Curiosity about technical domains and willingness to learn how expert users think and work
- Good judgment around structuring information and interactions in complex interfaces
- Ability to build software that is robust, clear, and maintainable
- Experience building data-rich, analytical, or operational SaaS products
- Experience working on tools for expert users rather than broad consumer audiences
- Experience designing or building complex workflows in technical domains
- Experience with time-series data, monitoring tools, dashboards, or similar applications
- Experience with Elm
- Experience with functional programming or strongly typed systems
- Enjoy going deep into a domain rather than staying at the surface
- Like working closely with users or domain experts to understand real problems
- Care about designing workflows that are efficient and intuitive for expert users
- Are comfortable with complexity and know how to reduce it without oversimplifying
- Take pride in building software that feels thoughtful, reliable, and well-crafted
- Are excited by the idea of applying frontend engineering to meaningful problems in renewable energy
- Comfortable working in a professional environment where English is the working language (both spoken and written)
- Prior Elm experience is welcome, but it is not a strict requirement. If you have a strong frontend background and are motivated to learn, we would be happy to talk
- We care more about your ability to reason about interfaces, workflows, and software quality than about checking every technology box
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to help us build software for technical expert users working with complex operational data. This is not a generic web app role. Our users rely on our product to monitor turbine behavior, investigate anomalies, understand patterns in data, and make decisions efficiently. That means the frontend is central to the value of the product
- As a Frontend Engineer on our team, you will help design and build the core product experience for a highly focused SaaS application used in wind turbine monitoring and analysis
- You will work on problems such as:
- Designing efficient workflows for expert users investigating turbine behavior
- Turning complex technical requirements into clear and intuitive interfaces
- Helping users work confidently with large amounts of operational and analytical data
- Balancing depth, flexibility, and usability in a data-dense product
- Shaping how frontend architecture and product design support long-term product quality
- You’ll be part of a dedicated product-focused development team reporting directly to the VP of Engineering
- Build and refine frontend features in our wind turbine monitoring platform
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and domain experts to understand user needs and workflows
- Design and implement interfaces for technical users working with complex data
- Help create efficient, high-signal workflows for investigation, analysis, and decision-making
- Translate complex domain concepts into software that feels clear and reliable
- Contribute to the evolution of our frontend architecture in Elm
- Improve the usability, consistency, and maintainability of the product over time
- Take part in product discussions and help shape solutions, not just implementations
- Our frontend is built in Elm, and we value approaches that support reliability, maintainability, and clarity
Application process
- Send us your application and tell us a bit about what draws you to the role. We’re especially interested in hearing about products, workflows, or interfaces you’ve helped shape—particularly in complex or data-rich industrial environments
Our take
When you think of energy, traditional resources such as oil, coal, gas or nuclear power may come to mind. The need to go green and obtain resources from sustainable sources is ever-growing, with people increasingly aware of being sustainable and what actions are good for our planet.
SkySpecs believe passionately about the necessity of the renewable energy sector. It provides data insight and automation to help wind farm owners and operators optimally invest in, maintain, and manage their assets for sustainable returns.
With a few major acquisitions under its belt, the company has been expanding fast as it consolidates its services. It has also raised significant funding, its 2025 round of $20 million supporting its geographic growth, helping it rise to meet increasing demand.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
80% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2025
$20m
LATE VC
May 2022
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $138.9m
Company benefits
- Healthcare
- Life & Disability
- Wellbeing & Mental Health
- Vacation & Personal Time Off
- Family Matters
- Commuter Benefits
Company HQ
Ann Arbor, MI
Leadership
Tom Brady
(Co-Founder & Executive Vice President)Studied Aerospace Engineering at university.
Jonathan Bendes
(Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer)Was a Database Automation Analyst at ShoreGroup before becoming a Portfolio Management and Risk Reporting Analyst at BlackRock.
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