Senior Software Engineer

Uplight is creating a new category of energy, making software that manages energy resources to generate, shift, or save energy. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive technology forward, enabling grid operators to utilize flexible, dispatchable capacity at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the scalable backend services and robust APIs that power Uplight’s VPP platform, facilitating seamless access to curated data for internal users and external customers
• Champion a full service ownership culture by designing, deploying, and managing the underlying cloud infrastructure using modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
• Build, optimize, and maintain robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure rapid, secure, and reliable delivery of code to production environments
• Design cost-effective, scalable data models for various relational and NoSQL databases, ensuring the systems can handle large-scale data storage and retrieval
• Implement automated systems and processes to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is consistently accurate and highly available for dependent business processes
• Ensure system reliability through rigorous unit and end-to-end regression testing, proactive system monitoring, performance benchmarking, and debugging of critical production issues
• Drive architectural design, implement best software engineering practices within the team, and proactively hedge technical risks to deliver projects predictably
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Delivery, and Operations to translate customer challenges into new capabilities, while mentoring peers through constructive code reviews and technical guidance

Requirements:

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a strictly related field
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering scalable, production-grade systems
• Strong proficiency in Python (or similar object-oriented programming languages). You consider writing readable, testable, and maintainable code a core requirement and have a deep understanding of design patterns
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), building CI/CD pipelines and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Solid working knowledge of various SQL and NoSQL databases, alongside deep technical expertise in at least one NoSQL database
• Extensive experience operating within Agile/Lean development environments with a strong commitment to full service ownership and operational excellence