Gridware is looking to design and build APIs that deliver data and real-time events to its customers, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation to improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on building APIs and distributed systems.
- A strong understanding of API design principles, event driven frameworks and best practices for API security, versioning and documentation.
- Proficiency in Python and PostgreSQL (or equivalent modern stack).
- Familiarity with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Mimir.
- Background working in hardware–software ecosystems or IoT systems.
- Strong product sense and ability to translate complex technical concepts into usable tools.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust APIs that expose real time events, health metrics and analytics to our customers.
- Collaborate directly with utility customers and integration partners to understand their data needs and workflows.
- Implement rate limiting, data access controls, and authentication systems.
- Create comprehensive documentation that helps customers integrate quickly and successfully.
- Champion engineering best practices around testing, API performance, observability, and continuous deployment to ensure reliability at scale.
- Mentor and support the development of other engineers.
Other
- Excellent communicator and relationship builder; comfortable explaining technical details to both engineers and utility stakeholders.
- Comfortable taking broad ownership in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment.
- Passion for building products that combine software, sensors, and the physical world.
- Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
- Paid parental leave
