Lead Software Engineer

We are partnering with a growing energy technology company seeking a Software Engineering Lead to build and scale software that manages distributed battery assets.

This is a hands on leadership role combining backend engineering, real time systems, operational software and team development. You will initially own critical services and applications before growing the engineering function.

• Lead software supporting battery dispatch, state of charge, asset availability and operational decision making
• Build APIs, event driven services and applications processing telemetry, commands and system events
• Own operator dashboards, alerts, workflow tools and exception handling
• Improve reliability, observability and recovery across real time systems
• Automate asset configuration, commissioning, testing and readiness workflows
• Partner with controls, operations and platform teams to improve system performance
• Use AI tools and agents to support testing, code review, documentation and operational workflows
• Mentor engineers and help shape the architecture and technical direction

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building APIs, backend services and event driven systems
• Experience with real time, high reliability, hardware adjacent or industrial software
• Technical leadership or engineering mentorship experience
• Strong debugging skills across software, infrastructure, data and system behavior
• Experience building internal applications for operators or technical users
• Practical experience using AI tools within software development

• GCP, including Cloud Run, Pub/Sub or Cloud SQL
• Web Sockets, event streams or real time dashboards
• Battery storage, SCADA, EMS, DER, energy management or industrial controls
• State machines, simulation or deterministic logic
• Building or leading an engineering team