Staff Backend Software EngineerRole OverviewAs a Staff Backend Engineer at Sense, you'll use your expertise to expand the capabilities of our cloud platform and enable the next generation of new product features. You will be a key contributor and leader maintaining and scaling a high-quality production service. You should be:
- Focused on delivering functionality that benefits the customer and provides real value
- Able to partner effectively with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and engineering managers across multiple disciplines.
- Ready to work with embedded engineers to develop systems that integrate with various hardware platforms.
- Comfortable working closely with partners and customers to ensure success
- Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses.
- Interested in building high-availability, performant, and scalable systems.
- Tenacious when tracking down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to solve problems.
- Ready to own team projects from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and bug fixing. Complete day-to-day work autonomously and identify gaps in requirements or processes, proactively suggesting improvements.
- Familiar and comfortable with AI coding practices
- A strong leader and outspoken advocate for engineering best practices and team collaboration.
Work ModelThis position is ideally a hybrid work model, but fully remote candidates will be considered. Our office is in Cambridge, MA and we have a mix of in-person, hybrid and remote employees.
RequirementsThe ideal candidate will have experience with the following:
- 8+ years of professional experience with a degree in a relevant field and proven track record in professional software engineering
- Mastery of Java, Linux, and AWS
- Experienced at designing clean, usable REST APIs and integrating with partner systems
- Strong understanding of how to apply security and data privacy principles within your specific engineering domain
- DevOps and SRE experience maintaining a production environment
- Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, and Python experience is a plus
- Energy industry or climate tech experience is a plus
- Authorized to work in the US
- Compensation is 180 - 200k
Benefits- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Work From Home
- Free Food & Snacks
- Wellness Resources
- Stock Option Plan
