Senior Backend & Platform Engineer (Cloud & Security)

Novele; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical/dental/vision

Generous PTO and holidays

Company-sponsored events

Onsite work in NY/Irvine

Job summary

Novele, a leader in intelligent energy storage, seeks a core Full-Stack Software Engineer (Backend & Platform Focused) to own cloud software, data architecture, and security foundations. You will drive backend services, data models, and tenant isolation across devices, cloud services, and applications.

This high-ownership role emphasizes backend systems, data modeling, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise-grade security while coordinating with frontend and embedded teams to ship robust features.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or closely related field (or equivalent).
• ≥5 years building/operating production backend/platform systems.
• Strong API design and database-backed applications experience.
• Relational DB design and query optimization.
• Cloud deployment experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Security best practices: authentication, authorization, and least-privilege access.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions for cloud software scalability and performance.
• Own database architecture and data models with tenant isolation.
• Build and maintain data pipelines between cloud services and embedded systems.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and access controls.
• Ensure reliability via backups, migrations, monitoring, and DR strategies.
• Collaborate with frontend, embedded, and product teams on end-to-end solutions.
• Improve engineering practices around testing, code quality, and deployment.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of production systems.
• Contribute flexibly across projects in a fast-moving environment.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Database design

Cloud deployment

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Novele, a leader in intelligent energy storage, seeks a core Full-Stack Software Engineer (Backend & Platform Focused) to own cloud software, data architecture, and security foundations. You will drive backend services, data models, and tenant isolation across devices, cloud services, and applications.

This high-ownership role emphasizes backend systems, data modeling, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise-grade security while coordinating with frontend and embedded teams to ship robust features.