Are you interested in building the technical foundation of the worldwide transition to clean energy?

Voltus seeks to transform a diverse network of distributed energy resources (DERs) into reliable and responsive virtual power plants in wholesale energy markets. DERs can be anything behind an electric meter: demand response, batteries, micro-grids, residential solar, EV bus fleets, smart thermostats, and more.

The Product Platform team builds the core services and APIs that power Voltus's virtual power plants. This team is responsible for the central business logic that enables us to manage a diverse and growing portfolio of distributed energy resources (DERs) in wholesale energy markets. We approach our work from a systems engineering perspective, and emphasize high reliability, thoughtful abstractions, and root-cause solutions.

Our primary stack runs on AWS and includes Go, Python, React, Hashistack, and Docker. We are heavily data driven, and use tools like Jupyter and Datadog to measure and understand our work. We value systems thinking and use techniques like Domain Driven Design to manage complexity.

This is an opportunity to do complex, interesting, and impactful work with a team of empathetic human beings. If you’re a holistic problem solver who likes to think about systems, we’d love to hear from you.

Areas we work in:

Intuitive internal APIs and reliable data products to form the building blocks of our demand response platform
Public-facing API (https://api.voltus.co) and developer documentation
Unified platform for collecting and processing customer documents and utility data
Providing accurate, timely, and effective notifications for grid emergency events to coordinate customer and internal response
Internal tools (e.g. analytics, scripting environments) to provide pragmatic solutions for technically proficient internal users

Responsibilities for this role:

Design and implement modular, composable primitives and APIs to capture core business logic for operating a growing portfolio of diverse energy resources
Understand energy industry rules, regulations, and standards to effectively design software that meets our needs
Collaborate with external partners, such as metering, battery, solar, residential, or commercial energy management systems, utilities, and ISOs
Contribute to the engineering roadmap, vision, and goals
Establish clear and specific success criteria with key stakeholders
Develop technical strategies for tackling new products, markets, and DER types
Provide mentorship and coaching to more junior team members

Requirements:

4+ years of software engineering industry experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience with cloud native application design and development using APIs, containers, and infrastructure-as-code
Experience with building data models and managing database migrations
Understanding of modern API design and best practices
Ability to write maintainable, modular, and well-tested code