Posted 
May 29

Backend Software Engineer

Software Engineering
REMOTE

Role Description

About Stem

Stem provides solutions that address the challenges of today’s dynamic energy market. By combining advanced energy storage solutions with Athena™, a world-class artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics platform, Stem enables customers and partners to optimize energy use by automatically switching between battery power, onsite generation and grid power. Stem’s solutions help enterprise customers benefit from a clean, adaptive energy infrastructure and achieve a wide variety of goals, including expense reduction, resilience, sustainability, environmental and corporate responsibility and innovation. Stem also offers full support for solar partners interested in adding storage to standalone, community or commercial solar projects – both behind and in front of the meter.

Stem’s culture embodies diversity & inclusion beyond the traditional facets of gender, ethnicity, age, disabilities, and sexual orientation to include experience, personality, communication, workstyles, and more. At our core, Stem is at the momentous intersection of clean energy and software technology where diverse ideas, experiences, and professional skills converge to make the inclusive culture we have today. Together, we are turning old school thoughts about software and energy into progressive, collaborative, and innovative solutions. By joining our team, you will be collaborating with data scientists, energy experts, skilled salespeople, thought-leading executives and more from a range of backgrounds. This intersection of ideas, beliefs, and skills is what makes us unique enough to lead the world’s largest network of digitally connected energy storage systems.

About the team

The Athena Bidder team is responsible for the applications that bid the capacity of Energy Storage Systems into energy markets. Using various data sources and Athena’s AI, we develop applications that place bids into various energy markets across the country. The Agile team is run by a team of enthusiastic and experienced data scientists, backend and front-end engineers, test automation engineers and a product owner.

What we are looking for

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer to help the development of the bidder application, but also develop related energy market integration and trading solutions. If you have experience developing a cloud-based product and a rock-star hands-on s/w engineer, we are very interested to meet you!

Responsibilities

Along with other s/w engineers your will develop and deliver energy market integration solutions on AWS, leveraging Kubernetes and other state of the art technology platforms. You will be creating new micro-services in Python or Java, integrate with energy trading platforms, leverage ML services, Cloud services and contribute to a developer experience that accelerates productivity and product quality.

Your new development environment will include:

  • AWS Cloud and microservices
  • Modern deployment stacks like Docker, Kubernetes
  • Programming languages including Python, and Java
  • Machine learning platforms

Required Experience

You recognize yourself in these qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience designing and developing cloud based applications
  • MS or BS Computer Science
  • Experience with Python and/or Java
  • Familiar with microservices and Restful APIs
  • Worked with SQL and other data stores
  • Practiced the Agile methodology
  • Previous experience writing APIs and micro-services

We don’t expect you tick the box for every item, but we like these too:

  • Experience with the AWS Cloud Services
  • Knowledge of containerized Docker apps and/or Kubernetes

Job Location
US and Canada

Stem, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Stem
 at a glance

Stem brings and optimizes energy consumption to business through its distributed storage technology.