Posted 
May 29

Lead Software Engineer-Cloud Platform

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 Cloud Platform team is responsible for our microservices framework and data services, upon which all of our other applications are developed.

Our cloud applications are developed using a state-of-the-art microservices framework, deployed at AWS, and use Kubernetes to orchestrate the application containers. The data services handle the ingestion and data processing of time-series data, but also manage our structured data, documents and events. Because of their foundational role, both the microservices framework and data services need to be highly scalable, resilient, extensible and secure.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an experienced software lead for our cloud platform team and mentor other engineers. If you have experience developing data processing services in the cloud, familiar with handling high-volume data, and understand the challenges to develop software for 24/7 available cloud services, we are very interested to meet you!

Responsibilities:

You will be leading and mentoring other s/w engineers, collaborate with product managers, and UX designers. You and the team develop and deliver the cloud platform and, data processing applications for Athena . As the lead, you will create the best of class developer experience to accelerate product development, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of innovation, product testabilty and quality.

Your new development environment will include:

  • AWS Cloud and microservices
  • Modern deployment stacks like Docker, Kubernetes
  • Programming languages including Python, and Java
  • Spark Data Processing

Required Experience:
You recognize yourself in these qualifications:

  • 7+ 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
  • Experience with data processing techniques
  • Practiced the Agile methodology
  • S/W lead experience
  • Demonstrated experience with secure software development patterns
  • Great Communication skills – You know how to write for, and speak to different audiences.

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

  • Experience with the AWS, GCP or Azure
  • Worked with authentication and authorization platforms
  • Knowledge of containerized Docker apps and/or Kubernetes

Job Location: Remote US or 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.