Staff Software Engineer

About EnergyHub

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

About the Opportunity 

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Ground Control Team, you will be pivotal in constructing the architecture, platform, and tools necessary for a scalable, reliable, observable, and performant microservices ecosystem.

The Ground Control team is empowered to prioritize engineering-driven initiatives with a focus on reducing complexity and accelerating the velocity of the entire engineering organization. Our initial efforts have led to work on diverse projects, including defining and building release and test strategies, enhancing the local development experience, and creating microservice templates. This role presents significant opportunities to shape the engineering operations at EnergyHub.

We're seeking a candidate who is passionate about software architecture and thrives in a collaborative environment. Your eagerness to contribute to the team's success and the wider organization will be key. In this role, you will support our mission by providing technical vision and guidance, independently driving major initiatives, and developing high-quality solutions. Your ability to balance multiple constraints while ensuring long-term flexibility will be crucial.

Main Responsibilities: What you’ll do

• Develop and maintain the technical infrastructure that supports all of EnergyHub's microservices.
• Accelerate the software development lifecycle of all EnergyHub microservices by standardizing common patterns and practices.
• Prepare legacy applications for transition to a microservices architecture and assist in transition.
• Invest in and unify how EnergyHub teams develop, deploy, and test microservices.
• Own and maintain the space for Ground Control's processes, technical designs, and education for other teams.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, internal engineering teams, and stakeholders to drive high-impact projects.
• Work within real-world constraints to develop creative solutions that maintain platform flexibility and scalability.
• Contribute to best practices for CI/CD, data modeling, and iterative development (e.g., PoCs, rapid prototyping, milestone-based execution).
• Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a strong technical culture of respect, open communication, and collaboration.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience: What you need

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with prior staff-level responsibilities.
• Passionate about automation and building resilient products
• Enthusiasm for building software and system integrations to bridge the gaps between our core infrastructure and the software we deliver to our customers
• Proficiency in Java (preferably Java 11+) and experience with at least one scripting language (e.g., Python3).
• Ability to work across team boundaries to identify and solve pain points that affect engineering velocity, system resilience, and system/service performance.
• Strong problem-solving skills, capable of balancing multiple use cases while enabling flexibility.

Preferred Skills and Experience: Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, AWS, and Robot Framework.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software development practices.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality, iterative value while maintaining execution speed.
• Strong communication skills, with an emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and working on challenging technical problems.

Why work for EnergyHub?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: Our employees work hard, do great work, and enjoy collaborating and learning from each other. 
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Gain well rounded experience: EnergyHub offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Work with the latest technologies: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of  IoT, SaaS and machine learning obstacles, including distributed fault-tolerance, device control optimization, and process modeling to support scalable interaction with disparate downstream APIs. 
• Be part of something important: Help create the future of how energy is produced and consumed. Make a positive impact on our climate.
• Focus on fun: EnergyHub places high value on our team culture. Happy hours and holiday parties are important to us, but what’s also important is how our employees feel every single day. 

Company Benefits

EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match. We offer a casual environment, the flexibility to set your own schedule, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, free Citi Bike membership, secure bike rack, gym subsidy, paid parental leave, and an education assistance program.

EnergyHub is an Equal Opportunity Employer

EOE, Including Disability/Vets. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact accommodations.apply@energyhub.net.

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Notice To Third Party Agencies:

EnergyHub understands the value of professional recruiting services.  However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you.