Full-Stack Software Engineer (Backend & Platform Focused)

Novele; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical/dental/vision

Generous PTO and holidays

Company-sponsored events

Onsite work in NY/Irvine

Job summary

Novele, a leader in intelligent energy storage, seeks a core Full-Stack Software Engineer (Backend & Platform Focused) to own cloud software, data architecture, and security foundations. You will drive backend services, data models, and tenant isolation across devices, cloud services, and applications.

This high-ownership role emphasizes backend systems, data modeling, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise-grade security while coordinating with frontend and embedded teams to ship robust features.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or closely related field (or equivalent).
• ≥5 years building/operating production backend/platform systems.
• Strong API design and database-backed applications experience.
• Relational DB design and query optimization.
• Cloud deployment experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Security best practices: authentication, authorization, and least-privilege access.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions for cloud software scalability and performance.
• Own database architecture and data models with tenant isolation.
• Build and maintain data pipelines between cloud services and embedded systems.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and access controls.
• Ensure reliability via backups, migrations, monitoring, and DR strategies.
• Collaborate with frontend, embedded, and product teams on end-to-end solutions.
• Improve engineering practices around testing, code quality, and deployment.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of production systems.
• Contribute flexibly across projects in a fast-moving environment.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Database design

Cloud deployment

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

At Novele, we are on a mission to innovate for a world where energy does more than power our lives—it sustains our planet and enriches our communities. Novele designs and manufactures intelligent energy storage solutions for the built environment, enabling a seamless transition to the efficient and practical use of traditional and renewable energy.

We are a team of experts who approach complex energy challenges with rigor and deep technical understanding. We are passionate about accelerating the energy transition, respectful in how we collaborate with teammates, customers, and partners, and honest in our communication and decision-making. We remain optimistic about what thoughtful engineering can achieve and visionary in how we design systems that scale and endure.

Novele's first product, EnergyBoard, is the thinnest and most scalable commercial battery system in the world. Designed for dense, urban infrastructure, its modular and lightweight architecture enables installation in space-constrained environments where performance, safety, and reliability are critical.

Your Role

Novele is seeking a core Full-Stack Software Engineer (Backend & Platform Focused) to own the cloud software, data architecture, and security foundations that connect our user interfaces, embedded systems, data systems, and internal/external applications.

You will take primary ownership of backend services, system architecture, databases, and security foundations. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role that will shape how our software platform scales across customers, devices, and deployments.

While this is a full-stack role, it is not UI-heavy. The emphasis is on backend systems, data modeling, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise-grade security. You will help design and enforce clear trust boundaries between devices, cloud services, users, and partners, while maintaining the agility required in a growing organization. You will play a key role in establishing reliable, secure, and scalable software foundations while still moving quickly to ship features.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions related to cloud software scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Own database architecture and data models, ensuring scalability, performance, and clear tenant/customer isolation.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and integrations between cloud services, applications, and embedded systems.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and access control following security and zero-trust principles.
• Ensure system reliability through redundancy, backups, migrations, monitoring, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, embedded engineers, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Establish and improve engineering best practices around testing, code quality, and deployment.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of production systems.
• Contribute flexibly across projects and priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 5 years of experience building and operating production backend or platform systems.
• Strong experience with backend development, including API design and database-backed applications.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or similar), including schema design and query optimization.
• Experience deploying and operating systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and least-privilege access.
• Proven ability to take ownership of systems and make sound technical decisions independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing systems for enterprise or regulated customers.
• Experience designing or operating data pipelines, analytics systems, or telemetry platforms.
• Familiarity with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Background working in security-conscious, regulated, or enterprise-facing environments.
• Experience implementing observability practices (logging, metrics, alerting).

Additional Requirements

• This role is based in Irvine, CA or New York, NY and requires being onsite.
• Minimal travel may be required to support company operations.
• Competitive total compensation package with meaningful upside.
• Premium medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous PTO and company holiday calendar.
• Team-building activities and company-sponsored events.

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