Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of critical cloud, mobile, and internal software systems.
• Design, test, and ship features used by customers, installers, manufacturing, and operations teams.
• Own and expand data pipelines and cloud systems supporting fleet visibility, analytics, and virtual power plant programs.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and product teams to integrate software with physical devices and real-world workflows.
• Refine requirements and balance user needs, complexity, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner with engineering leadership on technical direction and prioritization.
• Support mobile releases and QA through automation and repeatable processes.
• Contribute to code reviews and mentor other engineers through hands-on collaboration.
• Participate in occasional on-call incident response outside normal business hours.

Requirements

• Professional software development experience, ideally in a small or growing startup.
• Ability to independently drive ambiguous technical problems from definition through execution.
• Experience designing and building cloud-based systems, distributed systems, and data pipelines using AWS or a similar platform.
• Experience with TypeScript and/or Python, React-based frontends, SQL, and database-backed systems.
• Experience building production-quality systems with emphasis on reliability, automated testing, and long-term ownership.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, operations, and non-technical teams and communicate clearly.
• Bonus: React Native or mobile application development experience.
• Bonus: Experience working in or alongside Agile/Scrum teams.
• Bonus: Experience building IoT-connected systems or working with device data.
• Bonus: Familiarity with embedded software concepts such as C/C++ or hardware-adjacent systems.
• Bonus: Experience with protobufs, RPC frameworks, or event-driven architectures.
• Bonus: Prior experience working at a hardware company.

Benefits

• Full-time position expected to be in-office 4 days per week in Berkeley, California.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of employee premiums and 50% of dependent premiums covered on base plans.
• 401(k) plan available.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment, including eight weeks through Channing Copper and eight weeks of California Paid Family Leave.