Software Engineer, Backend - Member Software
Base Power Company3 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed systems for critical member and operational workflows.
- Define ownership, state, invariants, and failure handling across services and teams.
- Ensure systems remain correct under retries, duplicate events, delayed data, partial failures, concurrent updates, and manual intervention.
- Balance consistency, availability, latency, operational complexity, and member experience.
- Convert manual or error-prone work into reliable automation.
- Build infrastructure for experimentation, integrations, and workflow orchestration.
- Stream live and derived data into internal and member-facing applications.
- Communicate technical decisions clearly with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong systems and API design fundamentals.
- Deep analytical ability and sound technical judgment in ambiguous environments.
- Experience building or operating distributed systems with real correctness requirements.
- Ability to reason about idempotency, ordering, state machines, reconciliation, observability, and failure recovery.
- Ability to distinguish stakeholder requests from underlying system or product problems.
- Strong written communication and a high standard for clarity.
- Experience with operationally complex products is a plus.
Benefits
- Work in person at Base.
- Fast-moving startup environment with evolving responsibilities.
- Mission-driven work rebuilding the electricity grid and improving energy reliability.
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About Base Power Company
Base Power Company builds and operates distributed home battery systems that provide outage protection and lower electric costs for households, while strengthening local grid reliability. The company sells and finances these systems directly and through partnerships with homebuilders in a B2B2C model. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Base is privately held and focuses on clean energy, energy storage, and grid services in the U.S. market.