Senior Software Engineer

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future through virtual power plants. The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop backend services, APIs, integrations, and features supporting residential battery programs while ensuring strong security and data protection. The role involves collaborating with product, engineering, battery providers, and OEMs to improve battery solutions and deliver client value.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain features across our battery solution
• Develop and maintain our client-facing REST API and the backend logic that powers it
• Build integrations with distributed internal services to abstract away complexity and enable new product capabilities
• Ensure proper security and data protection policies, procedures, and monitoring are in place
• Collaborate with product and engineering to continuously improve requirements and software quality
• Collaborate with other teams to enable new API features and help them build on top of utility client data
• Drive and embody the “Dev Owns Quality” culture
• Write and maintain technical documentation
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience with the Java/Spring ecosystem
• Expertise in RESTful web APIs, especially those targeting external clients
• Strong software design skills
• Familiarity with relational database fundamentals (we mostly use PostgreSQL)
• Strong problem-solving skills, capable of balancing multiple use cases while enabling flexibility
• Knowledge of modern security best practices, authentication/authorization frameworks, and system/API hardening
• Knowledge of development best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring (e.g. GitHub Actions, DataDog, Sentry, Metaplane)
• Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively as the situation demands
• Sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time
• Experience with Python
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
• Experience with microservice architectures and event-driven messaging systems
• Experience with React and other web technologies
• Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC
• Experience with containerized systems
• Experience with MongoDB