Software Engineer, Backend - Core Experience at Base Power · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

This role requires someone who is deeply analytical, strong at systems design, and comfortable owning correctness in distributed systems. This is not a typical CRUD backend role.
Our goal is to move as many members as possible through the pipeline quickly, while scaling the business without scaling manual work linearly. We have digitized workflows around historically manual, fragmented processes. The next step is making those systems reliable, observable, and safe to operate at scale.
Top of Funnel includes the systems that bring members into the pipeline and help us understand what converts. You will build the infrastructure behind experimentation, partner integrations, lead ingestion, attribution, and workflows across direct customers, national homebuilders, and utilities.
Onboarding is where we coordinate the work required to get a battery installed. It is a multi-week process spanning members, internal teams, vendors, market-specific requirements, and automated workflows. You will build the systems that orchestrate that work and keep it correct through retries, partial failures, delayed data, changing requirements, and human intervention.
Retail is how we operate the energy business when we are responsible for powering the member’s home. You will build the software and control systems that automate routine decisions, surface exceptions, and ensure humans intervene where judgment is actually required.
In a steady state, the product needs to reflect what is happening at the home. You will connect member-facing and internal systems to live operational and telemetry data, ensuring they remain accurate and safe during outages, stale or missing data, duplicate events, retries, partial failures, and conflicting updates.
Design and build distributed systems that support critical member and operational workflows.
Define clear ownership, state, invariants, and failure handling for processes that span multiple services and teams.
Build systems that remain correct under retries, duplicate events, delayed data, partial failure, concurrent updates, and manual intervention.
Make tradeoffs between consistency, availability, latency, operational complexity, and member experience.
Identify process bottlenecks and turn manual or error-prone work into reliable automation.
Build infrastructure for experimentation, integrations, and workflow orchestration.

Software Engineer, Backend - Core Experience

Responsibilities

Company

Base Power

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