WeaveGrid, Inc. - Senior Software Engineer Backend

• 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 DERMS capabilities. • Collaborate with engineers to improve system reliability, data quality, effectiveness, and scalability across our product and codebase. • Own 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 • Contribute to the growth of the team through mentorship, design reviews, and code reviews, and serve as an effective interviewer for engineering candidates • 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 • You are driven to use your skills and talents to help fix the climate crisis • You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex backend systems independently • If working remotely, you are available to collaborate with team members during standard US West Coast working hours • If you’re based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be working from our San Francisco office 2 days/week • You care about the craft of software and feel a sense of ownership about code • You 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 • You enjoy solving hard technical problems and are excited to tackle the complexity of software that interacts with the real world • You think in systems, independently scoping and delivering end-to-end projects with an understanding of how your work fits into the broader architecture - and you proactively surface and resolve ambiguity rather than waiting for it to be clarified • You are proficient in a language like Go or Python and have expertise building microservices in a cloud-based backend • You 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 • You thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment, where priorities frequently shift to meet changing business needs and you help others navigate that ambiguity effectively