Senior Platform Engineer: Scale IoT Energy (Remote)

Podero; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Flexible work arrangements

25 Days of Annual Leave

Off-sites and travel budget across EUR

Job summary

Podero is building the future of energy consumption by combining software with devices to reduce CO₂ and electricity costs. As a Senior Engineer, you will shape the platform architecture, own end-to-end initiatives, and collaborate across backend services, APIs, and hardware integrations to enable reliable, scalable orchestration of thousands of devices now and millions in the future.

You’ll work closely with Product to align technical feasibility with commercial goals, while solving complex

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience; 1–2 years operating at a Senior or Staff level with end-to-end ownership.
• Proven experience designing and operating complex, reliable, production-grade platforms that run at scale.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Experience building external API integrations, ideally with hardware systems, control logic, or IoT ecosystems.
• Comfort working with high autonomy in fast-moving startup environments.
• Strong communication skills to work with Product, Engineering, and customers to shape technical decisions.
• Curiosity for the energy domain and orchestrating real-world devices in reliable and scalable ways.
• Familiarity with modern backend ecosystems; stack includes Python, Rust, event-driven systems, and Cloud platforms (GCP).

Responsibilities

• Own engineering projects end-to-end, from technical approach to deployment, operation, and iteration.
• Help design and evolve Podero's platform architecture so it can scale to millions of connected devices with high reliability and observability.
• Build core backend systems that handle real-time orchestration, telemetry processing, scheduling, and integration logic.
• Develop and integrate external APIs from energy hardware, IoT devices, and control systems into a unified orchestration layer.
• Improve platform reliability through better tracing, monitoring, failover strategies, and performance optimizations.
• Contribute to product direction by working closely with Product to connect commercial goals, user needs, and technical feasibility.
• Break large problems into small, testable, iterative pieces, shipping value continuously.
• Collaborate with customers when needed to understand real workflows and ensure what we build matches the complexity of the energy domain.
• Uphold engineering excellence by design reviews, code reviews, and sharing best practices across the team.
• Turn solutions into platform capabilities that other engineers can build on.

Skills

Distributed systems

Reliability

Scalability

Observability

External API integrations

Python

Rust

Event-driven systems

Cloud platforms (GCP)

Communication skills

Autonomy

Energy domain familiarity

IoT integrations

Job description

Podero is building the future of energy consumption by combining software with devices to reduce CO₂ and electricity costs. As a Senior Engineer, you will shape the platform architecture, own end-to-end initiatives, and collaborate across backend services, APIs, and hardware integrations to enable reliable, scalable orchestration of thousands of devices now and millions in the future.

You’ll work closely with Product to align technical feasibility with commercial goals, while solving complex