Senior Software Engineer, Energy Systems
David EnergyEnergy Management company
New York, United States$170K - $230KSenior
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Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Develop and maintain backend systems for a clean energy company.
- •Join David Energy to build clean energy solutions.
- •You'll develop backend systems for our software-native power plant and automated trading desk.
- •Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain backend systems of our platform, including APIs, databases, and third-party integrations.
- •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and tools.
- •Ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of our systems.
- •Requirements 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on backend engineering.
- •Demonstrated excellence in at least one back-end web framework (e.g., Flask, Django, Ruby on Rails, etc), cloud service (e.g.
- •AWS, GCP), and RDBMS (e.g.
- •Experience designing systems that scale, building resilient, highly available services, and understanding the tradeoffs between building a sophisticated architecture that works forever and a simple architecture that works today.
- •Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- •Understanding of the importance of open-mindedness and compassion in cultivating a collaborative environment.
- •Curiosity about how to use all tools around you to make you a better engineer, including AI-based development tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, or whatever else has come out since we wrote this job description!
Required skills
FlaskPythonPostgreSQLAWSCI/CDKubernetesDockerGraphQLRedisElasticsearchApache KafkaPandasNumPyscikit-learnTensorFlow
Nice-to-have skills
SlackAsanaLinearNotionExcelMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBCassandra
Domain expertise
cleantech
Benefits & perks
Base salary range of $170,000 - $230,000 plus equity, depending on experience, Group medical and dental insurance, Flexible vacation/PTO policy, 401k, Hybrid office culture, with team members remote and working from our offices in New York City
Tech stack
FlaskPythonAWSPostgreSQLCI/CDKubernetesDockerGraphQLRedisElasticsearchApache KafkaAirflowPandasNumPyscikit-learnTensorFlowPyTorchHugging FaceOpenAPIREST APIgRPCJestPytestSlackAsanaLinearNotionExcelMongoDBDynamoDB