Software Engineer, Backend - Member Software

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

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.

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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