Senior Software Engineer

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

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As a Senior Software Engineer on our growing Battery team, you will design and develop backend services that support residential battery programs while maintaining a strong security posture across our infrastructure. Working closely with leading battery providers, you will improve grid flexibility and help push virtual power plants forward towards a sustainable climate future.

This role is back-end and data focused, giving you the opportunity to build services, APIs, and new features to improve the quality and breadth of our battery solutions.

You would join a relatively new and growing team with the opportunity to contribute to highly visible projects with significant client impact. Partnering with engineers, product, and OEMs, you will design backend services that provide direct client value and unlock the full potential of residential batteries.

Main Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Build and maintain features across our battery solution
• Develop and maintain our client-facing REST API and the backend logic that powers it
• Build integrations with distributed internal services to abstract away complexity and enable new product capabilities
• Ensure proper security and data protection policies, procedures, and monitoring are in place
• Collaborate with product and engineering to continuously improve requirements and software quality
• Collaborate with other teams to enable new API features and help them build on top of utility client data
• Drive and embody the “Dev Owns Quality” culture
• Write and maintain technical documentation
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience: What you need

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience with the Java/Spring ecosystem
• Expertise in RESTful web APIs, especially those targeting external clients
• Strong software design skills
• Familiarity with relational database fundamentals (we mostly use PostgreSQL)
• Strong problem-solving skills, capable of balancing multiple use cases while enabling flexibility
• Knowledge of modern security best practices, authentication/authorization frameworks, and system/API hardeningKnowledge of development best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring (e.g. GitHub Actions, DataDog, Sentry, Metaplane)
• Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively as the situation demands

Preferred Skills and Experience: Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Python
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
• Experience with microservice architectures and event-driven messaging systems
• Experience with React and other web technologies
• Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC
• Experience with containerized systems
• Experience with MongoDB

Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.

• Collaborate with outstanding people: Our employees work hard, do great work, and enjoy collaborating and learning from each other.
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Gain well rounded experience: ••••••••• offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Work with the latest technologies: You'll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of IoT, SaaS and machine learning obstacles, including distributed fault-tolerance, device control optimization, and process modeling to support scalable interaction with disparate downstream APIs.
• Be part of something important: Help create the future of how energy is produced and consumed. Make a positive impact on our climate.

••••••••• empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

Company Benefits

••••••••• offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match. We offer a casual environment, the flexibility to set your own schedule, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, free Citi Bike membership, secure bike rack, gym subsidy, paid parental leave, and an education assistance program.

EOE, Including Disability/Vets. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact •••••••••••••••••••••• .

Base Salary Range$130,000—$170,000 USD