Senior Backend Engineer, Edge & Real-Time Systems

Form Energy; Weirton (WV); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Stock options

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Form Energy in Weirton, WV is seeking a backend software engineer to build site control software for our field deployments. You’ll join the Plant Software team to develop and maintain systems that monitor, visualize, and control the full battery system—from plant level down to individual cells.

You will collaborate with field, firmware, mechanical, electrical, and data platform engineers; own features end‑to‑end, implement tests, and participate in on‑call support to ensure high availability of

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production backend services or edge applications.
• Strong API design and service-oriented architectures.
• Troubleshooting complex, real-world systems.
• Collaborates with hardware, firmware, ops and data teams.
• Familiarity with Go, gRPC, Protobuf or similar protocols is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high‑reliability backend services for real-time monitoring and control.
• Own features end‑to‑end, from requirements to production deployment and tests.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and standards enforcement.
• Provide on‑call support and field testing across installations.
• Improve observability and fail‑safe mechanisms for mission‑critical systems.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Distributed systems

Asynchronous communication

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Go

gRPC

Protobuf

Tools

Go

gRPC

Protobuf

Industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, CAN)

Job description

Form Energy in Weirton, WV is seeking a backend software engineer to build site control software for our field deployments. You’ll join the Plant Software team to develop and maintain systems that monitor, visualize, and control the full battery system—from plant level down to individual cells.

You will collaborate with field, firmware, mechanical, electrical, and data platform engineers; own features end‑to‑end, implement tests, and participate in on‑call support to ensure high availability of