Optivolt - Lead Software Engineer
Requirements
• Software engineering experience: 5+ years building and shipping production software, with strong hands-on experience across backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and web or mobile applications. • Technical leadership: Experience leading projects from architecture through deployment, making practical technical decisions, and owning production reliability. • Technical leadership: • Team building: Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers and establishing effective engineering practices. • Team building: • Technical expertise: Strong foundation in system design, relational databases, cloud infrastructure, testing, and security. Experience with TypeScript, React, Python, or Ruby. • Technical expertise: • Communication & ownership: Able to explain technical tradeoffs clearly, collaborate across disciplines, and operate independently in a fast-moving startup. • Communication & ownership: • Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science (Optional), Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. • Education: • Experience with connected hardware, IoT, device telemetry, or time-series data. • Familiarity with solar, energy storage, or other energy systems. • Experience building mobile applications or software used by field teams. • Willingness to work extended hours as needed to support critical milestones • Everyone at Optivolt is required to participate in on call support for customers • Must be based in San Francisco, CA
Responsibilities
• Lead software engineering at Optivolt. Shape our technical direction and build the systems that connect our solar hardware, installers, and customers for years to come. • Lead software engineering at Optivolt. • Own delivery across the stack. Stay hands-on from concept through production, turning business needs and field feedback into reliable cloud services, APIs, data infrastructure, and web and mobile applications. • Own delivery across the stack. • Build an exceptional installer and customer experience. Make system design, commissioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting intuitive and efficient. • Build an exceptional installer and customer experience. • Build reliable connections between hardware and software. Partner with firmware and electrical engineering teams on device communication, telemetry, and remote diagnostics. • Build reliable connections between hardware and software. • Set the engineering standard. Establish practical approaches to architecture, code review, testing, security, documentation, and deployment. • Set the engineering standard. • Scale our platform as deployments grow. Improve system performance, data quality, and observability while keeping infrastructure manageable and costs in check. • Scale our platform as deployments grow. • Lead production troubleshooting and root cause analysis. Resolve issues across applications, services, and device integrations, and turn lessons into lasting improvements. • Lead production troubleshooting and root cause analysis. • Support pilots and new product launches. Validate software against real operating conditions and use field insights to guide development. • Support pilots and new product launches. • Build and mentor the software team. Help hire strong engineers, provide technical guidance, and create a culture of ownership and collaboration. • Build and mentor the software team. • Work closely with company leadership and cross-functional teams. Prioritize the roadmap, communicate tradeoffs, and balance delivery speed with long-term reliability. • Work closely with company leadership and cross-functional teams. • Bring clarity to ambiguity and prioritize ruthlessly. Make sound decisions with incomplete information, navigate competing demands, and keep the team focused on the highest-impact work. • Bring clarity to ambiguity and prioritize ruthlessly.
Benefits
• Critical to this mission is ensuring that Optivolt’s fleet expands reliability through world class software. Optivolt is not just hardware. Our systems stream data and controls in real time, transforming the roof and solar field into a new experience for every solar field operator, installer, and owner. • As Optivolt’s Lead Software Engineer, you are a hands-on technical authority who owns the architecture and development of Optivolt's software platform, spanning web applications, backend systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, device connectivity, and data. • The estimated starting base salary range for this role is $160K-220K depending on level, location and experience, plus a generous pre-IPO equity package • Other benefits include comprehensive health coverage, unlimited PTO, plus extra fun perks!
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