As a Senior Frontend Engineer, lead technical development on front-end products, collaborate with product teams, and work full stack on applications for energy markets.
About Voltus
Voltus’ mission is to be the Distributed Energy Platform that fulfills the promise of the energy transition. The Voltus platform connects any distributed energy resource (DER) to any energy market across the US and Canada, providing flexibility, reliability, and resilience to the grid while generating revenue for our partners. By partnering with industry leaders and the DER ecosystem, we are building the decarbonized, distributed, decentralized, and digitized energy system of the future.
Voltus is a remote and virtual company, distributed across US, Canada, and abroad. While this job is remote, you must be within 4 hours of North American Eastern Time - GMT-1 to GMT-9.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Applications team, you will build UIs and client-side web applications to help our team of energy market experts manage complex distributed resources in wholesale energy markets. At the same time, you will build apps to make our customers’ lives easier while they get paid for using less energy.
You have experience with modern web development frameworks (especially React) and are also experienced working on the API and middleware layer. You are passionate about product and design and you know how to create beautiful customer-facing tools as well as functional internal tools, and you have the judgment to know which to build when. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.
What You'll Do
- Assume a technical leadership role in the organization for our front end product and infrastructure
- Represent engineering in close collaboration with our product and design teams
- Nurture and grow our internal front end capacity and talent
- Author and support process documentation and exemplify front end best practices by example
- Work full stack on the application and API layers for customer-facing and internal tools
What's Important to Us
- Minimum of 8 years of experience as a professional engineer
- Minimum of 5 years as a front end dev
- Self-initiated and curious
- Passionate about product and design
- Fascinated with Energy Markets
- Previous Energy Markets experience a big plus, but not required
- A strong collaborator who understands what it means to be a force multiplier
- An empathetic individual who cares about engineering culture
- Expertise in React/Redux, HTML/CSS, ES2015+
- Expertise in TDD and front end testing frameworks
- Experience working in a dynamic, team environment
Some Technologies We Use
- Javascript, Python, Go
- React, Flask, Goa
- AWS, Docker, Nomad
- Postgres, Clickhouse, Kafka
**Please include a link to your GitHub account in your application (in the “links” section). Applications without a GitHub account will not be considered**
Please note that at this time, we do not sponsor visas or transfers for new hires. Voltus teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location (in the US or Canada, unless otherwise indicated on the role description).
Additionally, while Voltus is an all-remote workplace, we have limitations on where employees are able to work for regulatory and security reasons. We expect that Voltans are working primarily from their home country. Working while traveling to other countries must be approved as per our Global Remote Travel Policy.
At Voltus, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer because we recognize that a diverse organization begins with a diverse candidate pool. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or marital status.
Top Skills
AWS
Clickhouse
Docker
Flask
Go
Goa
JavaScript
Kafka
Nomad
Postgres
Python
React
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