Senior Backend Engineer: Energy Grid APIs

Talanto; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid medical

401(k) with employer match

Casual environment

Flexible schedule

Citi Bike membership

Gym subsidy

Parental leave

Education assistance

Job summary

Talanto is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Battery team. You will design and implement backend services and APIs supporting residential battery programs, focusing on security and scalable infrastructure.

You will collaborate with product, OEMs, and engineers to deliver high-impact features, drive quality, and document technical details across distributed services and client integrations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with the Java/Spring ecosystem.
• Expertise in RESTful web APIs for external clients.
• Knowledge of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of modern security practices and authentication/authorization.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring (GitHub Actions, DataDog, Sentry).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features across our battery solution.
• Develop and maintain our client-facing REST API and backend logic.
• Integrate with distributed internal services to enable new product capabilities.
• Ensure security and data protection policies and monitoring.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to improve requirements and quality.
• Write and maintain technical documentation.

Skills

Java/Spring

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Security best practices

Problem solving

CI/CD

Autonomous & collaborative

Tools

GitHub Actions

DataDog

Sentry

Metaplane

Docker

Kubernetes

Protobuf & gRPC

MongoDB

Job description

Talanto is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Battery team. You will design and implement backend services and APIs supporting residential battery programs, focusing on security and scalable infrastructure.

You will collaborate with product, OEMs, and engineers to deliver high-impact features, drive quality, and document technical details across distributed services and client integrations.