Senior Software Engineer, Voltus
IoT
$165-205k
+ 10% annual bonus + equity
Distributed energy resource connection and management
Open for applications
Distributed energy resource connection and management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$165-205k
+ 10% annual bonus + equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the distributed energy platform that fulfills the promise of the energy transition.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
- Minimum of 8 years of experience as a code-contributing engineer
- Experience building production systems in Python, Go, or a similar high level language
- Experience using AWS and Postgres or similar RDBMS
- Knowledge of and proven skills with Linux-based systems
- Basic knowledge of and interest in electronics and electrical systems such as Raspberry Pi or Arduino-style technologies
- A strong collaborator who understands what it means to be a force multiplier
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- A genuine passion for our mission to create a cleaner, more resilient energy future
- Authorization to work in the US or Canada without sponsorship
- Desire to learn about the energy industry and complex distributed systems
- Willingness to add to our knowledge and skills with agile methodologies
- Awareness, empathy, intentionality, curiosity
- Desire to be part of an open, collaborative, and psychologically-safe engineering culture
What the job involves
- Voltus is hiring a Senior Engineer for our edge technology team. With thousands of units installed streaming data live to Voltus’s platform, our fleet of devices enable our customers to monitor their energy usage in real time, and allows Voltus to manage thousands of sites for participation in demand response programs
- This team is preparing an accelerated deployment of devices. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help develop our cloud architecture and IoT fleet management solutions as well as improve and advance our device firmware
- A successful candidate will not only possess the required experience and technical skills, but will also demonstrate awareness, empathy, intentionality, curiosity and a desire to be part of an open, collaborative, and psychologically-safe engineering culture
- All technology aspects of Voltus’ IoT infrastructure including device software and firmware, cloud infrastructure, fleet management, and remote connectivity solution implementations
- Uptime and quality for our fleet of devices
- Device hardware and firmware development
- Remote software updates
- Cloud architecture to receive data from and manage thousands of devices
- Development and maintenance of fleet management solutions
- Engaging with customers, field support teams, and our manufacturing and assembly team to seek opportunities for improvement
- We build scalable software using Python, Postgres, Go, FastAPI, Temporal, Delta Lake, Clickhouse, Typescript, and React, running our services using Docker and the HashiCorp stack on AWS. We do not expect candidates to have a background in every tool listed here; instead, we place a high value on strong foundational programming skills and a genuine eagerness to learn and grow. Successful candidates can demonstrate significant depth in some of core technologies
- A successful candidate will be expected to work cross functionally with customers, internal stakeholders, and the development team
Our take
The push towards green energy, combined with a 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 Garden 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
Matthew Plante
(Co-Founder & President)Spent time as VP of Sales first at EnerNOC, then at Bidgely. Subsequently served as CEO of EcoFactor.
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