Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (North America) Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (North America)
Aether Energy (YC W24) · Canada (Remote) · nan, · Hybrid
About the job
Company Overview
Aether is on a mission to revolutionize the solar industry with its comprehensive AI-driven platform. Our founders are part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 program. They've worked at top companies in the energy and climate sector and have a strong academic background from UC Berkeley. Working with them, you'll be part of an exciting journey to shape the future!
website: aetherenergie.com
Job Description
We're in search of a Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record of building SaaS applications from scratch. As a founding engineer, you will be at the forefront, steering our technical architecture and making pivotal technical decisions from the outset. Our ambitious project encompasses computer vision, real-time CAD, and additional applications built on this foundation, such as real-time chat.
We're Looking For Someone Who
As Aether grows, your responsibilities will also change and expand beyond the ones listed below. There's no limit to how much you can grow and take on new challenges here.
Required:
We know you won’t know everything but having a good general breadth of the requirements below will set you apart
If you are passionate about making a difference in the energy sector and meet the qualifications, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume with this application.
This job is remote, with a preference for East Coast applicants for work hours alignment, since we have a team in Europe.
Aether is on a mission to revolutionize the solar industry with its comprehensive AI-driven platform. Our founders are part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 program. They've worked at top companies in the energy and climate sector and have a strong academic background from UC Berkeley. Working with them, you'll be part of an exciting journey to shape the future!
website: aetherenergie.com
Job Description
We're in search of a Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record of building SaaS applications from scratch. As a founding engineer, you will be at the forefront, steering our technical architecture and making pivotal technical decisions from the outset. Our ambitious project encompasses computer vision, real-time CAD, and additional applications built on this foundation, such as real-time chat.
We're Looking For Someone Who
- Leads with Action: Aether is a fast-paced, rapidly growing start-up with a small team. Your role is to create a significant impact from day one.
- Champions Autonomy and Collaboration: You're a self-starter who thrives in environments requiring minimal supervision. You possess the confidence and competence to take the helm, make critical decisions, and independently drive projects to completion. You can also collaborate and become an integral part of our team’s success.
- Inspires through Innovation: With a passion for solving complex, open-ended problems and a talent for architecting scalable solutions, you're motivated by the prospect of tackling climate issues through technological innovation.
As Aether grows, your responsibilities will also change and expand beyond the ones listed below. There's no limit to how much you can grow and take on new challenges here.
- SaaS Scalability: Play a key role in building and scaling our SaaS application, ensuring robustness and responsiveness.
- Back-end Mastery: Design and implement Django back-end services and APIs to support front-end applications and external integrations. Ownership extends to database management (GCP, postgresSQL), deployment, and QA.
- Leadership and Collaboration: Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- End-to-End Ownership: Engage fully in the software development life cycle, from defining scope and breaking-down tasks to ensuring transparency and accountability in all communications. Help maintain code quality.
Required:
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands-on involvement in developing production-level code.
- Proficiency in architecting, building, and maintaining REST APIs for production applications.
- Expertise in relational databases and models.
- Strong proficiency in Python & Django
- Familiarity with code versioning tools and continuous integration.
- Fluent in English, with excellent communication skills.
We know you won’t know everything but having a good general breadth of the requirements below will set you apart
- Solid grasp on cloud services, specifically Google Cloud Platform
- Comfortable working with Redis and Websockets
- Experience in developing real-time chat, CRM/Project management applications, building micro-services, and flexible architectures.
- Strong data engineering skills
- Experience building and debugging complex systems
- Demonstrated experience in leading teams and driving project completion.
- Prior team-building experience, including recruiting technical team members.
- Strong mathematical background and familiarity with energy-related data or a willingness to learn (e.g., kWh, kW, solar energy concepts). We will check this during the interview.
If you are passionate about making a difference in the energy sector and meet the qualifications, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume with this application.
This job is remote, with a preference for East Coast applicants for work hours alignment, since we have a team in Europe.
