Software Engineer - Backend/Distributed Systems
About the role
We’re hiring a Distributed Systems / Backend Engineer to serve as a key contributor on the core backend platform powering Emerald AI. This is a high-impact role: you will drive architectural decisions, introduce best practices, build foundational infrastructure, and help guide the evolution of our real-time energy intelligence engine. You’ll work across ingestion, compute, storage, and system orchestration—designing components that must be highly reliable, resilient, and capable of operating at scale. As one of the early engineering hires, you’ll have a major influence on our stack, roadmap, and long-term technical direction.
We’re a team of experts across AI, cloud, software, and energy—on a mission to scale AI sustainably. We’re backed by leading investors and partners including Radical Ventures and NVIDIA.
Key Responsibilities
Designing and scaling systems that interact with real-world energy infrastructure
Building high-performance services and APIs that power core product workflows
Tackling hard problems in reliability, data modeling, and system design
Shipping end-to-end features—from idea to production
Improving system observability, performance, and fault tolerance
Partnering closely with product to turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions
Preferred requirements
Experience with distributed systems or data-intensive applications
Experience building and operating backend or infrastructure systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability
Interest in grid systems, energy orchestration, and applying AI to real-world infrastructure
Experience working on real-time or near real-time systems
Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and turning open-ended problems into production systems
Strong system design skills, including tradeoffs across latency, consistency, and scalability
Ability to work across the stack when needed to unblock progress
Who Thrives Here
Engineers who want to build, not just maintain
People who take ownership without waiting for permission
Those who enjoy figuring things out when the path isn’t obvious
Engineers who care about both technical excellence and real-world impact
People who prefer high trust, high accountability environments