Software Engineer (Applications Team)

Full Time Software Engineer (Applications Team) at Gridware (United States)

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Software Engineer (Applications Team)

Gridware United States

Date Posted : 09 Nov, 2022

Work Location : Walnut Creek, CA, United States

Salary Offered : Not Specified

Job Type : Full Time

Experience Required : 1+ years

Remote Work : No

Stock Options : No

Vacancies : 1 available

Gridware is on a mission to create a future without deadly wildfires. We’re a startup building hardware and software that monitors the power grid to prevent and detect faults that lead to wildfire ignition and blackouts .

To make that happen, we’re currently looking for a software engineer to join our growing Applications team .

Why do we need you?

Imagine in 50 years, you are speaking to a bunch of children about the climate crisis. They specifically ask about the uncontrolled wildfires and blackouts that used to threaten people’s lives and homes.

How did we solve that? they are asking. Imagine being able to tell them what YOU did to solve this problem.

Responsibilities

• Help fight real fires by building emergency response software to assist first responders and our communities fight wildfires and outages.
• Build operations dashboards for monitoring and controlling our network of power grid sensors.
• Create analysis tooling for the investigation and labeling of potentially dangerous grid activity.
• Develop software to manage the lifecycle of grid component failure from issue, to dispatch, to fix.
• Use your skills in UX design to create intuitive interfaces; work with our users to refine them.
• Collaborate with our passionate staff to tackle the largest issues with our power grid infrastructure.

Core Skills

• In depth knowledge of Javascript / Typescript.
• Experience with at least one Javascript framework (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte).
• A high standard of product quality with an eye for UX design and engineering detail.
• Thoughtful API design skills with technologies like GraphQL or REST.
• Experience with build / test tools like Webpack, Mocha, CI.

Bonus Skills

• Building real-time data-driven dashboards.
• Experience with our specific stack : GraphQL, React, Typescript, Material UI.
• UI / UX Design tooling : Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe InDesign, etc.
• Mobile development experience : React Native, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, responsive web design.
• Familiarity with cloud-architecture to support distributed, low-power devices.
• Has built real-time systems using publisher subscriber models.

Benefits

• 3 day weekend every other week.
• 2 weeks paid time off, plus an additional annual paid 2 week off the grid mini-sabbatical with $3000 to make it a great adventure.
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance, free parking and a commuter allowance.
• 401K.
• Stock option plan.
• Company-paid training to upgrade your skills.
• Conveniently located office next to Bart and the highway.

What we do

We provide a full-stack (hardware + firmware + software) solution for real-time monitoring of America's power distribution grid.

Our low-cost hardware platforms are deployed to power poles, where they detect and predict faults that lead to wildfire ignition or outages, and expedite repairs during power outages.

Our investors

• True Ventures.
• Fifty Years.
• Y Combinator.

Gridware is an equal opportunity employer. We want applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to color, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Gridware is located in Walnut Creek, California.

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