Mechanical Engineer

Energy Excellence Group; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Excellence Group in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Go-based engineer to own end-to-end services, maintain data integrity across gRPC stores, and contribute to postmortems that prevent outages. The role emphasizes mentorship, adaptability, and reliable delivery under tight Santa Clara deadlines.

Preferred candidates have strong Go/gRPC grounding and experience integrating third‑party services, with a focus on audit readiness and backward-compatibility in Scrum workflows.

Qualifications

• Mentor or support mid-level teammates.
• Strong Go/gRPC grounding.
• Experience in a mid-level temporary role.
• Adaptability under shifting requirements.
• Clear thinking under Santa Clara, CA deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Drive the MongoDB incident postmortem to stop outages in Santa Clara.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Energy Excellence Group stack.
• Own a technology service end to end, from gRPC schema to on-call rotation.
• Own data integrity across Energy Excellence Group's gRPC stores so Santa Clara numbers remain accurate.
• Harden Energy Excellence Group's Go auth for CA audit readiness.
• Negotiate empathy tradeoffs with product when timelines clash with reality.
• Keep Scrum schemas backward-compatible to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Write MongoDB integration tests to catch regressions before shipping in Santa Clara.

Skills

Go / gRPC

Mentoring

Empathy

Mid-level dev

Adaptability

Deadline pressure

Tools

MongoDB

Go

GRPC

Testing

Job description

Energy Excellence Group is scaling its technology platform across CA, and the Mechanical Engineer we hire becomes one of its load-bearing decisions. This mission-driven role offers $122,000 - $167,000, full ownership of Go projects, and the support of a team that ships together.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the MongoDB incident postmortem that stops the Santa Clara outage from recurring
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Energy Excellence Group stack
• Own a technology service end to end, from gRPC schema to on-call rotation
• Own data integrity across Energy Excellence Group's gRPC stores so Santa Clara numbers never lie
• Harden Energy Excellence Group's Go auth so the CA audit comes back clean
• Negotiate Empathy tradeoffs with product when Energy Excellence Group timelines and reality collide
• Keep Scrum schemas backward-compatible so Energy Excellence Group never forces a breaking upgrade
• Write the MongoDB integration tests that catch regressions before Santa Clara, CA ships them

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates
• Solid gRPC grounding, plus Empathy you can pick up on the fly
• Experience at the mid-level inside a temporary role
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• Clear thinking under the kind of pressure Santa Clara, CA deadlines bring

We are a team-oriented technology company, and Energy Excellence Group calls Santa Clara, CA home. The Energy Excellence Group promise is plain: clear expectations, real autonomy, and zero surprise reviews.

Combine $122,000 - $167,000 with growth, generous benefits, and a mentor, and you have the reason people stay at Energy Excellence Group for years.