Senior Backend Engineer: Solar Design & Optimization

Aurora Solar; San Francisco (CA); On-site; CAD 126,200 - 187,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Parental Leave

WFH Stipend

Coworking Stipend

Energize Fridays

Connectivity Stipend

Learning & Development stipend

Medical, Dental, Vision

Job summary

Aurora Solar in Canada is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the System Design Pod to advance PV and storage design tools. You will lead design features end-to-end, apply novel mathematical approaches, and push simulation and optimization work forward with a team that values correctness and scalable software.

You will design and maintain backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines, collaborating with product managers, researchers, and engineers to deliver reliable, high-performance software

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering with a strong backend foundation.
• Background in computational mathematics, optimization, linear algebra, or numerical algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with simulation or optimization and building scalable data pipelines.
• Experience designing APIs, microservices, or data pipelines at scale.
• Strong problem solving and distributed collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the backend systems and computation engines behind Aurora's solar and electrical design workflows.
• Advance our simulation and optimization work across PV and battery storage system layout, component selection, and electrical configuration.
• Partner with product managers, designers, research engineers, and fellow engineers to turn complex physical models into reliable software.
• Shape the architecture of our simulation and computation infrastructure for speed, correctness, and maintainability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Optimization

APIs

Microservices

Data pipelines

C++

Python

Ruby

Distributed teamwork

Education

Computational mathematics background

MS/PhD in CS or related

Tools

Cloud platforms

Batch processing systems

Job description

Aurora Solar in Canada is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the System Design Pod to advance PV and storage design tools. You will lead design features end-to-end, apply novel mathematical approaches, and push simulation and optimization work forward with a team that values correctness and scalable software.

You will design and maintain backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines, collaborating with product managers, researchers, and engineers to deliver reliable, high-performance software