Backend Engineer, Energy Grid Data Platform

woodmac; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood Mackenzie is seeking a backend engineer to join a small team building a platform for modelling the U.S. electric transmission grid.

The role focuses on Python applications, data processing pipelines, and Linux-based infrastructure to support power-system planning and interconnection studies. This position emphasizes production-quality software, database design with PostgreSQL, and scalable ETL for large geospatial datasets.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience developing production-quality software in Python.
• Advanced PostgreSQL and SQL capability, including query optimisation and database design.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting experience, including services, networking, permissions, process management and scripting.
• Experience working with large datasets and building or operating data-processing pipelines.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills, with the ability to work with limited day-to-day direction.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test and maintain Python applications, backend services and data-processing pipelines.
• Design, write and optimise PostgreSQL queries, database schemas and data-access patterns.
• Build and maintain reliable ETL processes for large geospatial and energy-infrastructure datasets.
• Support engineering applications used for transmission modelling, electrical-infrastructure management and power-system analysis.
• Administer, monitor and troubleshoot Linux-based application environments and deployments.
• Investigate defects and performance issues across application, database and infrastructure layers.
• Collaborate with power-systems analysts to translate engineering requirements into maintainable software solutions.
• Contribute to technical documentation, code review and pragmatic improvements to engineering practices.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL

Linux

Data processing pipelines

Debugging

Tools

PostGIS

GeoServer

OpenLayers

Redis

AWS

Job description

Wood Mackenzie is seeking a backend engineer to join a small team building a platform for modelling the U.S. electric transmission grid.

The role focuses on Python applications, data processing pipelines, and Linux-based infrastructure to support power-system planning and interconnection studies. This position emphasizes production-quality software, database design with PostgreSQL, and scalable ETL for large geospatial datasets.