Staff Backend Software Engineer

About the role

As a staff backend software engineer you will work across the entire Tapestry platform, helping the team design and implement secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure and services. You will work closely with other software engineers, machine learning experts, power systems domain experts and product managers to plan, coordinate and integrate your work.

This is your dream job if you are passionate about enabling product teams to ship faster, safer and more autonomously by abstracting away infrastructure complexity. Come talk to us if you are excited about energy tech and have strong engineering chops to help push our electric grids towards the future!

What you should have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Algorithms and Data Structures: Strong grasp of foundational computer science concepts to optimize code performance and memory usage.
• 10+ years of experience building enterprise grade complex software systems and applications.
• Excellent problem solving and ability to navigate complex/ambiguous situations.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists, domain experts and PMs.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language (Java/Kotlin or Go Lang preferred).
• Experience with large-scale data processing and modeling, designing backend services and building robust enterprise class applications.
• Extensive experience with microservices architecture, including RESTful APIs, gRPC, event-driven design patterns, and Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, GCP cloud monitoring) to troubleshoot production issues.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or AWS/Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and lead large-scale architectural decisions across teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge or background in power systems or electric grid technologies.
• Experience with building full-stack applications including frameworks such as Angular.
• Knowledge of enterprise security architectures, compliance standards and zero-trust security models.
• Experience working in a Startup/early stage company.