Staff Backend Software Engineer

• We’re looking for talented self-starters who want to be part of the energy transformation and are ready, willing, and able to tackle tough challenges and complex technical problems
• When you join the Sense team, you’re helping us build a cleaner, more resilient future
• Sense supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and is an equal-opportunity employer
• We strive to foster an engaging, respectful, and supportive community where everyone feels empowered to do their best work
• As a Staff Backend Engineer at Sense, you’ll use your expertise to expand the capabilities of our cloud platform and enable the next generation of new product features. You will be a key contributor and leader maintaining and scaling a high-quality production service
• Focused on delivering functionality that benefits the customer and provides real value
• Able to partner effectively with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and engineering managers across multiple disciplines
• Ready to work with embedded engineers to develop systems that integrate with various hardware platforms
• Comfortable working closely with partners and customers to ensure success
• Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses
• Interested in building high-availability, performant, and scalable systems
• Tenacious when tracking down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to solve problems
• Ready to own team projects from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and bug fixing. Complete day-to-day work autonomously and identify gaps in requirements or processes, proactively suggesting improvements
• Familiar and comfortable with AI coding practices
• A strong leader and outspoken advocate for engineering best practices and team collaboration

Benefits

• Generous healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and disability insurance
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Dental and vision benefits
• Accident Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Flexible paid time off
• 401K with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Paid family and medical leave
• Hiring practices that promote diversity
• Unconscious bias training
• Fitness subsidies
• Hybrid and remote work opportunities
• Remote work stipend
• Commuter benefits

Preferred experience

• DevOps and SRE experience maintaining a production environment
• Experienced at designing clean, usable REST APIs and integrating with partner systems
• 8+ years of professional experience with a degree in a relevant field and proven track record in professional software engineering
• Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, and Python experience is a plus
• Authorized to work in the US
• Energy industry or climate tech experience is a plus
• Mastery of Java, Linux, and AWS
• Strong understanding of how to apply security and data privacy principles within your specific engineering domain