Senior Full Stack Engineer - job 1 of 2

About GridUnity:

At GridUnity, we are at the forefront of transforming the nation’s energy landscape. Our innovative team is dedicated to solving complex interconnection challenges, delivering precise, high-quality solutions that empower large transmission companies, RTOs, ISOs, and utilities. We foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and strategic innovation, positioning ourselves as a pivotal player in addressing today’s energy challenges.

Our vision is to: Energize the planet with a faster, smarter and more sustainable grid, and our mission is to: Unite all grid interconnection stakeholders on a single platform that converts centralized data into actionable intelligence and accelerates the transition to a reliable, sustainable, and cost-efficient electric grid.

Our advanced platform combines machine learning, configurable business processes, and cloud computing to deliver a suite of SaaS-based products and services with the flexibility to evolve with the world’s changing energy market. The GridUnity platform has been rolled out across North America by entities providing energy to 70% of Americans, and we are accelerating our growth.

About the Team:

The GridUnity engineering team is a tight-knit group of experienced professionals who are genuinely passionate about building cutting-edge solutions. We're serious about the quality of our work and the impact it has, but we also believe in the power of a good laugh to fuel creativity and collaboration. You'll find us tackling complex challenges with focused dedication, but never without a healthy dose of humor. We value deep expertise, measured not in years but in the countless hours we've dedicated to honing our craft. We're driven by a shared commitment to innovation and a desire to deliver the very best for our customers, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

About the Role:

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers and product managers to implement and support high-scale data ingestion, empowering customers to explore new insights on their data and accelerating interconnection and the power grid development

• Own complex features end-to-end, from initial product & technical design stages through to production, ensuring the appropriate engineering rigor has been applied for scalability, reliability, and observability.

• Be a steward of good data ownership, ensuring that the data which users trust us with is treated with the utmost prudence for security and privacy.

• Help to maintain our high technical bar, participating in code reviews and design discussions to ensure that we're applying appropriate rigor to our software development process.

• Support a collaborative and innovative culture by sharing your ideas via RFCs, participating in solution ideation, and giving your peers evaluating feedback on their code and their proposals.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.

• 3+ years of experience building full-stack applications.

• Professional experience with several of the following technologies:

  • Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Python, or C#.

  • Frontend: React or a similar modern JavaScript framework.

  • Databases: PostgreSQL or another relational database.

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining production systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, API Gateway).

• Production experience with GraphQL (queries, mutations, schema design).

• Familiarity with event-driven and microservice architectures.

• Exposure to multi-tenant systems and role-based access control.

• Track record of contributing to architecture and system design.

• Comfortable in high-context, async-first engineering teams.

• Daily user of AI-enhanced engineering tools, such as:

  • Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, or ChatGPT for writing, refactoring, and debugging code.

• Interest or experience in integrating LLMs into production systems:

  • Prompt engineering, embeddings, structured outputs, or agent-style workflows.

About You:

• You have a data first mindset.

• You're not just interested in what you're building, but also why you're building it. You want to see the bigger picture of how the software you‘re building is benefitting our customers.

• You understand how observability impacts reliability and enjoy digging into the details to solve performance, data accuracy, and user experience issues.

• You have a collaborator’s mindset and dig deep to understand nuanced and multi-faceted problems and tenaciously break them down into tractable pieces.

• You love giving and receiving feedback, and considering new and novel ideas.

• You thrive in a growing organization, and are not afraid of a challenging problem. In fact, you confront problems head on and take the lead on finding the solution.

• Experience with integrations, managing data accuracy in large data sets, database sharding, event-driven architectures, and machine learning is a plus..

Benefits/Perks:

• Competitive Compensation Packages that recognize your expertise and contributions.

• Remote-First Work Environment – Remote-first culture that provides flexibility

• Professional Development – Access to training, mentorship, and career pathing.

• Comprehensive Health/Dental/Vision Insurance – coverage begins on your first day.

• Short & Long Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance at no cost to you

• 401(k) Plan with a 4% match of your annual earnings to help secure your future.

• Flexible PTO and a supportive work culture that values work-life balance.

• Mission-Driven Work – An opportunity to make a significant impact in the energy sector and contribute to groundbreaking solutions in an industry undergoing rapid evolution.

Our Company Values
Boldness & Reliability: We think BIG. We are forward thinking in our approach to reliably accelerating the energy transition.

Scrappiness: We empower our teams to solve problems with ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness, achieving remarkable results with extreme efficiency.

Continuous Learning: We enable continuous learning via mentorship, training, and career pathing. We welcome challenging objectives.

Radical Transparency: We foster a culture that embraces diverse perspectives and a provides a safe space to give and receive candid feedback with radical transparency.

Customer-Centric Innovation & Agility: We partner closely with our customers, adapting and innovating to deliver solutions that anticipate their evolving needs with agility.

Funfillment: We believe that holding true to these core values makes life at GridUnity a fulfilling, electrifying, and epic adventure!

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

To request an accommodation for the application process, please send an email to [email protected].

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