Software Engineer, Product Experience

Verse is a company focused on managing complex power portfolios for energy buyers through their Energy Cost Intelligence platform, Aria. They are seeking a Software Engineer to develop product experiences and features for clean energy buyers, working on both frontend and backend components of their applications.

Responsibilities:

• Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and proactive communication with a high degree of transparency, mutual respect, and consideration for teammates
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UI/UX designers, and other engineers to develop intuitive, user-friendly Buyer Solutions software experiences
• Design, build, test, debug, maintain, and scale user-facing software and closely related components up and down the stack
• Integrate frontend components with backend APIs while efficiently rendering and presenting interactive data visualizations
• Implement backend APIs, middleware, and integrate these layers with databases
• Manage user authentication and authorization, sessions, and tokens using services like Clerk or Auth0 for secure user login systems
• Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability with content delivery networks
• Evaluate and recommend new software tools, systems, and architectures as the product evolves

Requirements:

• Customer empathy and obsession to craft quality user experiences
• Hands-on experience working in both frontend (e.g. Typescript, React) and backend (e.g. Go, Python) software ecosystems
• Ability to translate complex product requirements into functional software, and speak the language of engineers and designers
• Commitment to delivering high quality software on time or ahead of schedule while adhering to best software development practices
• Continuous obsession for staying informed on contemporary technologies, tools, libraries, services, frameworks, or breakthroughs that could benefit the team
• Discipline using generative AI tools in day-to-day work
• A bachelor's degree or higher, not necessarily in a STEM field
• Senior or Staff level software development talent and up
• Proven track record being a technical leader in high-performing product engineering teams
• Expert programming skills with Typescript and Go, advanced experience with Python is a big plus
• Advanced experience developing in the gRPC + Protocol Buffer ecosystem (we use Buf's Connect SDK)
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and blob storage (e.g. GCS or S3)
• Experience authoring and maintaining UI kits, design systems, component libraries
• Keen sense and natural intuition for UI/UX design principles
• Understanding of content delivery networks (CDN) and edge server solutions
• Desire to be a generalist throughout the product engineering stack
• System design and architecture knowledge
• Technical project management skills in agile, product-focused teams
• Willingness and flexibility to operate in high-pressure environments where priorities can easily shift or pivot depending on user needs