Senior Software Engineer: Forward Deployed

About Gridware

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

Role Description

In this role, you will drive development of our customer-facing features, where you will sit at the intersection of Customer Success and Software to translate customer requests into robust, scalable engineering solutions. This is a critical role where your decisions will lay the foundations of our integrations with utility systems and directly impact the success of our deployments at scale. 

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies 
• Ability to thrive in a low structure, high-autonomy environment with competing priorities 
• You’ve built something from the ground up with broad ownership 
• Experience with Python, GraphQL, React, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Linux systems, and containerization technologies 
• Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus 
• Experience building customer-facing APIs 
• Experience building energy-related software products 

This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered) 

Paid parental leave 

Alternating day off (every other Monday)

“Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees. 

Commuter allowance 

Company-paid training