Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud, AI & Energy Platform

Search Services; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Our Client seeks a Senior Software & Platform Engineer to lead development of its energy intelligence platform. You will unite cloud infra, data, forecasting, AI workflows and customer apps into a secure, scalable platform.

Reporting to the Acting CTO, you will guide day-to-day engineering, code reviews, CI/CD and architectural decisions while mentoring teams across product and data domains.

Qualifications

• Strong software and platform engineering experience.
• Python proficiency with API frameworks (FastAPI or equivalent).
• PostgreSQL/PostGIS and SQL proficiency including REST APIs.
• GIT, Docker and containerized deployments.
• Strong systems thinking and software architecture skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core cloud platform, APIs, data services, authentication and workflows.
• Modernize customer-facing apps, analytics, reporting and deployment frameworks.
• Develop canonical data models, APIs, ETL pipelines and metadata frameworks.
• Integrate forecasting, GIS, AI services and external APIs.
• Build production AI workflows for data validation and automation.
• Implement secure authentication, authorization, CEII segregation and audit logging.
• Lead engineering execution, code reviews, CI/CD, Git workflows and sprint planning.
• Mentor developers and coordinate workstreams across teams.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL/PostGIS

SQL

REST APIs

Git

Docker

Systems thinking

Software architecture

Business requirements to technical

Communication

Tools

Neo4j

GIS

React

TypeScript

Message queues

Job description

Our Client seeks a Senior Software & Platform Engineer to lead development of its energy intelligence platform. You will unite cloud infra, data, forecasting, AI workflows and customer apps into a secure, scalable platform.

Reporting to the Acting CTO, you will guide day-to-day engineering, code reviews, CI/CD and architectural decisions while mentoring teams across product and data domains.