Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

Voltus is hiring for multiple roles at the senior level on several teams. As a Senior Engineer, you will find a home on one of these teams and assume a technical leadership role in our backend solutions and front end technologies where appropriate to the team. You'll join a fully remote team tackling complex energy industry challenges, collaborating with experienced engineers on our modern tech stack, and contributing to core systems that decarbonize the grid.

Your work will involve:

• Building core backend logic
• APIs
• Designing data pipelines
• Creating customer interfaces

A strong candidate can speak to their alignment with our core values of bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you in a highly collaborative environment.

Technologies We Use

• Python
• Postgres
• Go
• FastAPI
• Temporal
• Delta Lake
• Clickhouse
• Typescript
• React
• Docker
• HashiCorp stack
• 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 our core technologies.

Responsibilities

• Assume a technical leadership role, with other senior engineers, for the team’s solutions bringing past experiences to improve our coding practices and team principles and operating procedures.
• Represent engineering in close collaboration with our product and design teams and internal stakeholders including technical requirements gathering.
• Author and support process and design documentation and exemplify best practices by example.
• Work principally in the backend and data handling layers of our technology stack with front end development on occasion.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a code-contributing engineer.
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Multiple years of experience working in one or more of our foundational backend technologies and with databases.
• An empathetic individual who cares about engineering culture with demonstrated contributions to team culture and engineering best practices.
• 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.

Requirements

• $170,000 - $190,000 a year
• Base pay is $170,000-$190,000 annually, commensurate with experience, with a 10% annual bonus, and equity.
• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees.
• Parental leave.
• A comprehensive benefits package to promote health, wellness, and financial security.

Additional Information

• Please include a link to your GitHub account in your application (in the “links” section). Applications without a GitHub account will not be considered.
• We do not sponsor visas or transfers for new hires.
• Voltus teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location (in the US or Canada, unless otherwise indicated on the role description).
• While Voltus is an all-remote workplace, we have limitations on where employees are able to work for regulatory and security reasons.
• We expect that Voltans are working primarily from their home country. Working while traveling to other countries must be approved as per our Global Remote Travel Policy.
• We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.
• We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process.