Senior Data and Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

The mission at Satoshi Energy is to enable every electric power company to utilize bitcoin in order to accelerate progress toward a world with decentralized sound money and abundant sustainable energy.

The company was founded in 2018 on two premises : 1) energy companies will leverage bitcoin mining to support investment in low cost sustainable energy, and 2) energy companies operating in 24 / 7 power markets will benefit from 24 / 7 real time financial settlement.

Today, we are a market leader connecting nearly 2 gigawatts of renewable energy assets with bitcoin mining data centers under novel contract structures while building a suite of tools to enable energy companies to transact in bitcoin.

In the future, we envision every kilowatt-hour streamed to an energy consumer will be settled instantaneously with a payment streamed to the energy producer.

As a Senior Data and Software Engineer, you will join a small, focused team of bitcoiners, engineers, finance experts, and energy experts.

Your goal will be to deliver value to our customers, implementing data driven software solutions that extend and improve all aspects of our codebase.

Additionally, you will work across the organization to help us be forward thinking and anticipate customer needs. As we grow, you will be instrumental in helping to build the engineering team and build a more decentralized and sustainable future.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work alongside fellow engineers and designers to architect and build novel bitcoin based financial applications for the energy industry.
• Be an expert at creating, managing, and analyzing data. This includes generating complex ETL pipelines, integrating logging and caching systems, and working effectively with databases and other data stores.
• Design and develop core logic features and new functionality in a scalable and performant fashion covering everything from cloud infrastructure to front-end.
• Work effectively within our software stack to create smooth user experiences that delight our customers.
• Collaborate and diligently communicate with the sales, development, and operations teams to determine the needs of a project.
• Assist with on-call technical support and site reliability, addressing code-level issues in real-time production environments.
• Stay up-to-date with technology to push the envelope and improve our products.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years experience programming, ideally within the energy or financial sectors.
• Demonstrated expert understanding of SQL (PostgreSQL), Python, and Docker.
• Practical experience with TypeScript, React, GraphQL, CSS, and Next.js.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud, AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Demonstrable track record of building and maintaining mission critical back-end systems, data processing pipelines, and user interfaces for software applications.
• Self-motivated with the flexibility and willingness to work on various initiatives simultaneously.
• Positive professional demeanor with a collaborative low ego mindset.
• Pushes the boundaries of what is possible (first principles thinker) and takes initiative on new tasks.
• A winning mindset where you show up to work focused and prepared.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Obsession with bitcoin, the bitcoin mining industry, and energy markets. Technical knowledge of Bitcoin and lightning network protocols is a strong bonus.
• Expert understanding of multiple programming languages such as Go, Rust, and C++.
• Experience successfully leading software development teams and projects.
• Experience building production machine learning applications.
• Knowledge of security best practices, applied cryptography, and performance trade-offs.
• Prior startup experience.

Company Culture

• We are free thinkers, we believe in meritocracy, we challenge assumptions meticulously, and we don’t get overly emotional if we’re wrong.
• We believe in providing freedom and responsibility to foster a growth culture based on trust, transparency, and teamwork.
• We encourage each other to seek discipline and focus in all parts of life, so that we can always perform at our best on the job.
• We are a distributed team on a mission to build decentralized global power markets.

Benefits

• Bonus plan, 401k, and equity participation.
• Medical, Dental and Vision.
• Company gatherings in fun places - the best of being fully remote while still coming together regularly!
• Benefits vary for international applicants.
26 days ago