Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sense is a VC-backed, post-Series C climate tech company located in Cambridge, MA, dedicated to reducing global carbon emissions. They are seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer to expand their cloud platform capabilities and lead the maintenance and scaling of a high-quality production service.
Responsibilities
- Focus on delivering functionality that benefits the customer and provides real value
- Partner effectively with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and engineering managers across multiple disciplines
- Work with embedded engineers to develop systems that integrate with various hardware platforms
- Work closely with partners and customers to ensure success
- Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses
- Build high-availability, performant, and scalable systems
- Track down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to solve problems
- Own team projects from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and bug fixing
- Complete day-to-day work autonomously and identify gaps in requirements or processes, proactively suggesting improvements
- Familiar and comfortable with AI coding practices
- Be a strong leader and outspoken advocate for engineering best practices and team collaboration
Skills
- 8+ years of professional experience with a degree in a relevant field and proven track record in professional software engineering
- Mastery of Java, Linux, and AWS
- Experienced at designing clean, usable REST APIs and integrating with partner systems
- Strong understanding of how to apply security and data privacy principles within your specific engineering domain
- DevOps and SRE experience maintaining a production environment
- Authorized to work in the US
- Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, and Python experience is a plus
- Energy industry or climate tech experience is a plus
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Work From Home
- Free Food & Snacks
- Wellness Resources
- Stock Option Plan
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