Staff Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Software Engineer (energy sector)

• Focus: Back-end services, APIs, data processing, and security for electrical grid transmission planning

• Teamwork: Collaborative, small dedicated team; cross-team dependency alignment

• Travel: Up to 15% for team/client meetings

Description

You will build and maintain back-end services and APIs that support regional electrical grid transmission planning. The work involves processing and moving large volumes of planning data, implementing security/authentication/access control, and translating needs from electrical engineers into technical requirements. You’ll also own CI/CD pipelines and keep systems observable, using AI-assisted development tools with strong validation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and back-end services in Java and Spring Boot

• Process, validate, and move large volumes of grid/planning data between systems (including batch job orchestration)

• Design and implement security, authentication, and access control across services

• Own CI/CD pipelines, environments, and deployments; ensure logging and metrics for observability

• Partner with electrical engineers to understand problems and translate domain needs into requirements

• Tackle problems independently first, then bring options and recommendations to the team

• Help prioritize work and communicate trade-offs

• Use AI-assisted development tools to speed delivery; review and test AI output before shipping

• Mentor teammates and share knowledge about the domain

Requirements

• 6+ years building back-end systems and APIs (Java and Spring Boot strongly preferred)

• Track record of learning new languages, codebases, and domains quickly

• Curiosity about how complex systems work and demonstrated self-learning

• Strong problem-solving and good judgment on when to ask questions

• Strong communication, including explaining technical concepts to domain experts

• Comfort reaching out to the client directly

• Broad technical range across APIs, data, security, and infrastructure

• Strong understanding of RESTful principles and experience with OpenAPI standards, Swagger, and Postman

• Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, role-based access control)

• Experience with relational databases and data-heavy workloads (SQL Server, Oracle)

• DevOps experience: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), cloud platforms, logging, and metrics

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and ability to validate output

• Experience with agile development, and version control/CI-CD workflows (Git, Bitbucket, continuous integration and deployment)

• Experience leading pieces of work and mentoring engineers

Benefits

• Continuing education opportunities

• Flexible PTO and work-from-home policies

• 401K matching

• Health, Dental and Vision benefits starting on day 1

• Company lunches, outings, and snacks

• Health and wellness programs

• Other location-specific perks