Senior Software Engineer

🕒 May 14

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Scale Microgrids

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51 - 200 employees

⚡ Energy

💸 Finance

Energy • Finance

Scale Microgrids is a leading provider of microgrid solutions, specializing in the design, construction, operation, and financing of on-site energy systems. Their offerings include microgrid and distributed energy solutions tailored to meet the needs of commercial and industrial facilities. Scale Microgrids helps businesses achieve cost savings, sustainability, and resilience by reducing electricity costs, ensuring energy reliability, and meeting sustainability goals. The company also provides capital solutions, offering flexible financing for microgrid and other distributed energy projects, including community solar installations. Scale Microgrids is committed to enhancing energy reliability and sustainability while supporting varied organizations such as grocery stores, bus fleets, and steel factories.

📋 Description

• Build web applications with modern, interactive UIs for operators and customers • Architect and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs (FastAPI, PostgreSQL) to support real-time microgrid operations • Develop and enhance financial modeling features, building reliable calculation engines and data integrations that support portfolio-level analysis and investment decision-making • Design and validate mathematical optimization models (MILP/LP) using Pyomo and commercial or open-source solvers (HiGHS, Gurobi) • Build and extend simulation infrastructure to validate optimization outputs • Design and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, and event-driven pipelines (MQTT, AWS IoT, SQS, Sparkplug B) • Collaborate with product management and design to deliver robust software products • Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting for high availability microgrid software deployments • Work with stakeholders across engineering, operations, and product to turn workflows into production-ready automation • Assess and adopt new technologies to enhance performance, scalability, and maintainability

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred • 5+ years of experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript development • Energy experience and modeling, optimization • Experience with complex algorithm-driven problems: convex/constraint-based optimization problems, statistical modelling including Bayesian model fitting, DSP, control systems • Constraint modeling frameworks (Pyomo) and commercial/open-source solvers (HiGHS, Gurobi, GLPK) • FastAPI and microservices experience • React for front-end development • PostgreSQL and relational database design • Experience with high-volume, time-series data processing • Experience with message brokers and IoT protocols (MQTT, Sparkplug B, AWS IoT Core) • Experience with SCADA platforms (e.g., Ignition or equivalent) and deployment and management of edge devices • Experience with SCADA/energy protocols such as Modbus, OpenADR, DNP3, or IEEE 61850 • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work across teams with evolving requirements