Founding Engineer, AI Energy Grid (Hybrid)

GridVolt; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity percentage

25 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

GridVolt is building the future of energy with AI-powered optimisation and a virtual power plant across Ireland and the UK. You will work directly with the founder to shape technical priorities, own features end-to-end, and connect customer sites to energy optimisation systems through Python services and data pipelines.

The role involves integrating batteries, solar, HVAC, and other devices via APIs, and building frontend tools with React/TypeScript.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with SQL databases.
• Experience integrating REST APIs and MQTT.
• Linux, Docker, production deployments and operations experience.
• Cloud deployment and monitoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical priorities with the founder.
• Own features from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Develop Python services and data pipelines connecting customer sites, energy optimisation, and markets.
• Integrate batteries, solar, HVAC and other devices via APIs and protocols.
• Build customer-facing features and internal tools using React and TypeScript.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability, and automated testing as GridVolt scales.

Skills

Software development

SQL databases

REST APIs

MQTT

Linux

Docker

Cloud deployment

Observability

Tools

Docker

React

TypeScript

MQTT

Job description

GridVolt is building the future of energy with AI-powered optimisation and a virtual power plant across Ireland and the UK. You will work directly with the founder to shape technical priorities, own features end-to-end, and connect customer sites to energy optimisation systems through Python services and data pipelines.

The role involves integrating batteries, solar, HVAC, and other devices via APIs, and building frontend tools with React/TypeScript.