Software Engineer, Backend

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Base Power Company
Full time
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USA
11/09/2026
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Austin, TX

Responsibilities

Build Go services and Connect/protobuf APIs for fleet state, dispatch, schedules, partitions, and performance reporting.
Design and operate telemetry ingestion and serving paths for a geographically distributed battery fleet.
Build multi-tenant, partner-facing APIs with authentication, tenant isolation, rate limiting, versioning, and self-service onboarding.
Implement safe control paths with idempotency, retries, backpressure, data consistency, and complete audit trails.
Own service infrastructure and operations on AWS, including infrastructure as code, managed queues and databases, deployment, and observability.
Partner with product engineers on reliable API contracts and with Trading and Markets on dispatch, settlement data, and performance guarantees.
Debug production issues using logs, traces, and metrics, and resolve their underlying causes.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building production backend systems.
Strong API design skills with typed contracts, Connect, protobuf, gRPC-style APIs, versioning, and clear error semantics.
Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including queues, retries, idempotency, backpressure, rate limiting, and data consistency.
Experience moving and serving data at scale through streaming or telemetry ingestion, time-series or analytical storage, and freshness guarantees.
Experience deploying and operating services on AWS with infrastructure as code.
Experience with multi-tenant systems, authentication and authorization, isolation, and rate limiting is preferred.
Fluency with observability through metrics, logs, traces, and production debugging.
Experience with edge-connected systems where networks fail, devices disconnect, and physical state matters is preferred.
Clear writing, sound judgment, and the ability to turn ambiguity into decisions and follow-through.

Benefits

Work is performed in person.
The startup environment offers shifting priorities and evolving responsibilities.
The role is described as not being a traditional 9-to-5 schedule.

Base Power Company

Base is building the future of American power. The grid is the largest, most complex machine in the world. But it’s aging, struggling to keep up with today’s demand, and is unprepared for our electrified future. Base is modernizing the grid as the first engineering-led, technology-driven power co...

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