Software Engineer Backend

Climactic is a company focused on solving critical emerging grid integration challenges for the energy transition. They are seeking a seasoned backend engineer to design, implement, and deploy software solutions that integrate with device manufacturers and utilities, contributing to the technical direction and quality of their products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and produce high quality code for robustness, testability, and maintainability
• Work with our Python backend, relational database schemas, and microservice architecture & develop deep ownership of your area of work, including its long-term health, reliability, and technical debt
• Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to design and deliver new, scalable product features that expand our platform’s Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) capabilities
• Collaborate with engineers to improve system reliability, data quality, effectiveness, and scalability across our product and codebase
• Perform rollouts, instrumentation, alerting, and reliability monitoring in our production cloud environment
• Create brand new capabilities with new partners while reusing and generalizing existing modules
• Use Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Jira/Confluence, and CircleCI
• Participate in on-call rotations, periodically (~once per quarter) serving as the frontline presence for monitoring, diagnosing, and triaging production service issues
• Coordinate with multiple teams across several codebases in the engineering organization
• Contribute to team prioritization by identifying and proposing improvements to your area of work, including new capabilities, reliability investments, and technical debt reduction
• Special projects and other duties as designated by your manager or assigned designee

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex backend systems independently
• If working remotely, available to collaborate with team members during standard US West Coast working hours
• If based in the San Francisco Bay Area, will be working from the San Francisco office 2 days/week
• Care about the craft of software and feel a sense of ownership about code
• Leverage AI tools effectively in your workflow, including for coding, while maintaining the engineering judgment to critically evaluate and catch AI-generated errors or subtle incorrectness
• Enjoy solving hard technical problems and are excited to tackle the complexity of software that interacts with the real world
• Think in systems, independently scoping and delivering end-to-end projects with an understanding of how your work fits into the broader architecture - and proactively surface and resolve ambiguity rather than waiting for it to be clarified
• Proficient in a language like Go or Python and have expertise building microservices in a cloud-based backend
• Enjoy being hands-on in the full lifecycle of software development: early design, testing, production deployment, post-launch iteration, measuring and monitoring outcomes, and quickly fixing problems that may arise
• Thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment, where priorities frequently shift to meet changing business needs and help others navigate that ambiguity effectively
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field