Driver Applications Senior Software Engineer

About Us

The future of transportation is electric, and our software solves the most critical emerging grid integration challenges to ensure that the impending energy transition is clean, equitable, and resilient. Our enterprise solutions help the grid absorb the coming electrification wave with ease. Utilizing modern, cloud-native platform architecture and robust systems optimization, WeaveGrid’s software is built from the ground up to tackle the most critical network challenges while meeting the stringent regulatory, security, and reliability requirements of the utility industry.

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Senior Software Engineer to WeaveGrid’s driver-facing application and guide us through the next phase of our growth. No previous experience in the energy sector is required.

In this role, we will ask you to:

• Launch New Features to Drive Scale: Lead the full-stack development of new features and capabilities, from concept to deployment to expand the suite of our offerings
• Drive User Growth: Design and build features aimed at scaling our user base  through data-driven decision-making and user-focused product development.
• Improve Retention, Engagement & Onboarding: Build frictionless, intuitive user flows that drive sign-ups, streamline onboarding, and retain engagement in our platform..
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and engineers to deliver a cohesive user experience.
• Mentorship & Team Culture: Guide engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performance team and lead with empathy.
• Ensure Code Quality: Write and test code to ensure functionality, accuracy, and robustness across use cases. Help our team maintain a high quality codebase.

About You

• Mission Driven Focus: You’re motivated by the opportunity to use your technical skills to make a meaningful impact on addressing climate change.
• Bias for Action: You thrive in fast-paced environments and are execution-oriented. You have a track record of quickly launching new features and initiatives, balancing speed with quality. Rapid iteration excites you, and you're hands-on in driving impactful changes across our product.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity: You excel in situations where the path forward isn’t always clear. You can break down complex problems, transform them into actionable solutions, and make informed decisions with incomplete information—adapting as things evolve.
• Product-Focused Engineering: You approach engineering with a product-first mindset, always considering how your work impacts users and contributes to business goals. You care about crafting intuitive, user-friendly software and understand the real-world context in which it will be used.
• Collaboration & Flexibility: You enjoy collaborating with passionate team members in a flexible working environment. If local to the SF Bay Area, you're excited about a hybrid work setup and working from the office when needed.
• Commitment to Growth: You believe in continuous learning and are eager to contribute to the growth of the company. You’ve mentored other engineers, helping them grow and become more productive, achieving more as a team than as individuals.
• Technical Expertise: You understand Agile software development, DevOps practices, and the importance of quality assurance in delivering reliable, scalable products.

Required Skills & Experience

• You have been in a highly challenging role in industry for several years, or are a newly-minted PhD and an expert within your area of work
• You can make technical contributions independently
• You have a proven ability to build impactful, high quality, products.
• You manage the broader systems you are responsible for, considering tech debt, alerting, reliability, monitoring. You are comfortable proposing and initiating work to address the needs of these areas.
• You can mentor others and grow WeaveGrid
• Proficient in CSS and semantic HTML
• Proficient in TypeScript
• Next.js/React experience
• Strong emphasis on testing—component, unit, and E2E testing
• GraphQL experience
• Backend competency: comfortable with microservice-based architecture and experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
• Experience with relational database schema design

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with web accessibility compliance and best practices
• Experience with CSS-in-JS libraries like Emotion CSS, Styled Components, or similar
• Experience with Cypress
• Experience with Python, Pytest, and database fundamentals
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Jira/Confluence, and CircleCI

The total compensation for this opportunity includes a base salary range of $145,000 - $180,000 plus equity (stock options) and benefits. This is our target compensation range and is subject to multiple factors including role, level, experience, and location. Please note that WeaveGrid may not necessarily hire individuals at or near the top of the base salary range. As you go through our interview process, our recruiter will work with you to identify a competitive base salary within the proposed range and combine it with an equity package to get you excited about your future at WeaveGrid.