Piq Energy - Full Stack Software Engineer

deCircle; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity compensation

Flexible work environment

Job summary

An innovative energy company is seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. In this role, you will develop and maintain user-facing applications, backend APIs, and cloud infrastructure. With a focus on collaboration and mentorship, you'll work within a mission-driven environment to shape the future of the power grid. Ideal candidates have 4+ years of software engineering experience and can adapt quickly to a dynamic startup culture.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience delivering high-quality software.
• Hands-on expertise with modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience building scalable software based on user needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end features across applications and APIs.
• Collaborate with users to gather feedback and translate insights into solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable code and uphold technical standards.

Skills

Software engineering

JavaScript frameworks

Python

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Tools

Svelte

GraphQL

Postgres

Job description

Mission

Piq Energy is helping leading developers connect to the grid faster by automating the technical power system analysis required to safely develop and deploy new assets. We’re looking for incredible people to join our team!

This is a critical early hire with a significant amount of responsibility and corresponding competitive (location-adjusted) salary and equity compensation. Expect a base of $150k-$250k plus equity compensation for SF-based employees.

Role

Piq Energy is seeking an innovative Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team. You will develop, deploy, and maintain user-facing applications, backend APIs, databases, and cloud deployment infrastructure. As part of our dynamic startup environment, you will have opportunities to own features and shape our user experience and technical architecture. You\'ll collaborate within our team of software engineers, power systems experts, data scientists, and designers to deliver a powerful and performant SaaS platform.

Piq’s technical stack includes

• Frontend: Typescript, Svelte, GraphQL, Mapbox, D3.js

• Backend: Python, LLM agents, Postgres, workflow orchestration

There’s no need to be an expert in all parts of our stack - it’s more important that you’re good at learning quickly.

Piq is a remote-friendly company, with hubs in San Francisco, CA, and Athens, Greece. Our SF team works in-person in our coworking space 2-3 days per week.

Our interview process consists of a phone screen, two technical interviews, and a call with our founders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end features across interactive frontends, backend APIs, data pipelines, and AI agents

• Lead workstreams end-to-end, including gathering product requirements, proposing solution architectures, developing an implementation plan, managing technical dependencies, and coordinating rollout plans

• Collaborate directly with users and customer-facing teammates to gather feedback and understand their needs, translating insights into design solutions

• Build and maintain data-rich, interactive frontend applications

• Scale our backend APIs, systems, and data pipelines to support more use cases, while ensuring maintainability and paying down technical debt

• Uphold the technical bar as you build, ensuring our platform is performant, scalable, and secure

• Provide hands-on mentorship and feedback for teammates

• Write clean, maintainable code following best practices

• Participate in and lead design discussions, code reviews, and technical planning meetings

• Contribute to improving software engineering practices, with a bias toward action, ensuring fast iterations and delivery of impactful solutions

About Piq Energy

Piq Energy’s mission is to accelerate the energy transition by automating power grid simulation and analysis for project developers and utilities.

Our values

• Kindness: Be kind and candid to yourself and others.

• Excellence: Aim high and continuously improve.

• Sustainability: Consider your capacity to maintain your self, your communities, and the environment.

• Humility: Serve a greater goal, stay curious and open to learning

• Freedom and Responsibility: You have the freedom to make decisions and the responsibility to take ownership of those decisions.

Why join us

• Shape the future of the power grid

• Work with a passionate, mission-driven team.

• Collaborate in a global, remote-friendly environment.

• Be part of the early team and contribute to shaping the company’s direction.

• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience delivering high-quality software for enterprise customers

• Experience building scalable software starting from user needs

• Ability to help evolve a growing engineering team

• Hands-on expertise with modern JavaScript frameworks, including developing interactive data-rich applications

• Experience building data-intensive applications with Python. Experience with workflow orchestration and LLM APIs and frameworks is a plus

• Experience owning successful software delivery end-to-end

• Comfort with LLM coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code

• Experience with version control, testing, and debugging tools

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a bias towards action

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment