Lead Real-Time Energy Software Engineer

Storm4; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm4 partners with a growing energy technology company to recruit a Software Engineering Lead who will build and scale software for distributed battery assets. This hands-on leadership role combines backend engineering, real-time systems, operational software and team development.

You will initially own critical services and applications before growing the engineering function, guiding architectural direction and mentoring engineers across the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building APIs, backend services and event-driven systems.
• Experience with real-time, high reliability, hardware-adjacent or industrial software.
• Technical leadership or engineering mentorship experience.
• Strong debugging skills across software, infrastructure, data and system behavior.
• Experience building internal applications for operators or technical users.
• Practical experience using AI tools within software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead software supporting battery dispatch, state of charge, asset availability and operational decision making.
• Build APIs, event driven services and applications processing telemetry, commands and system events.
• Own operator dashboards, alerts, workflow tools and exception handling.
• Improve reliability, observability and recovery across real time systems.
• Automate asset configuration, commissioning, testing and readiness workflows.
• Partner with controls, operations and platform teams to improve system performance.
• Use AI tools and agents to support testing, code review, documentation and operational workflows.
• Mentor engineers and help shape the architecture and technical direction.

Skills

Software engineering

APIs & backend

Event-driven

Real-time systems

Technical leadership

Debugging

Operator apps

AI in development

Job description

Storm4 partners with a growing energy technology company to recruit a Software Engineering Lead who will build and scale software for distributed battery assets. This hands-on leadership role combines backend engineering, real-time systems, operational software and team development.

You will initially own critical services and applications before growing the engineering function, guiding architectural direction and mentoring engineers across the team.