Lead Software Engineer

Exowatt is a next generation renewable energy company offering commercial and industrial customers a modular full-stack energy solution that can provide dispatchable power and heat for up to 24 hours per day, specifically designed to meet the needs of energy-intensive applications such as data centers. Our mission is clear, to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free. Exowatt is based in Miami, Florida and backed by notable investors such as a16z, Atomic, and Sam Altman.

We are looking for a driven, self-starter fullstack engineer to help us build out customer facing interfaces and build out the backend firmware. You will work closely with our small team of Mechanical, Thermal, and Optics engineers and have significant inputs to the product success.

What You'll Do:

In your first six months on the job you’ll have:

- Understood the company’s vision, goals, business model, and the challenges that our customers face.

- Worked closely with our pilot users to solve their problems through elegant technical solutions.

- Defined the medium-term technical strategy with a keen focus on incorporating business needs, user feedback, and the inherent flexibility required in an early stage-startup.

- Led the release of the minimum viable product by working throughout the stack - backend, frontend, and infrastructure, with an emphasis on firmware and front end development.

- Developed a data engineering strategy to synthesize data from disparate sources into an analysis ready state.

- Made key improvements to our underlying infrastructure, and laid out the medium term architecture roadmap.

- Established technical culture by setting best practices and norms.

- Led the release of subsequent versions of the product, with a focus on third-party data integrations, to unblock new business and enable growth.

What You Have:

- 5+ yrs of fullstack software development experience.

- Experience with Python, NextJS, Javascript, React, and other scripting languages.

- Experience with integration and tooling.

- Familiarity with cloud-based computing platforms - we use AWS Cloud managed with CDK.

- Experience with multiple database management systems.

- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills with great attention to detail.

- 0->1 startup experience, ideally with a Pre-seed / Seed / Series A company.