Software Engineer

JOLT Charge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

JOLT Charge in San Francisco seeks an engineering leader to design and maintain AI-driven workflows, automating complex business processes. You will own end-to-end technical execution guided by product direction and work across cloud infrastructure and back-end services.

You will contribute across the stack, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate trade-offs clearly to stakeholders. This role emphasizes ownership, scalability, and practical engineering judgment.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure and scalable systems.
• Proficiency in integrating AI agentic workflows (LLM integration, MCP, tools).
• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline management and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AI-driven workflows powering business processes.
• Own monitoring, incident triage, and production issue resolution; automate where possible.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and scale services with maintainability in mind.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

AI agentic development

CI/CD

Linux environment

Full-stack contribution

Strong communication

Job description

Salary range: $125,000 - $135,000 per year

About JOLT

JOLT is disrupting two industries at once, EV charging infrastructure and out-of-home advertising, across five markets, with a team that moves fast to test and deliver exciting new innovations. We don't operate like a traditional software company, and we don't want engineers who think like one.

We're building something genuinely new: an AI-native engineering culture where agentic systems, automated workflows, and intelligent tooling compound our output every week. The infrastructure we've built in the last year has transformed how the business operates. This role is about accelerating that, taking real ownership of the systems that power JOLT across markets, charging networks, and commercial partnerships.

This isn't a role for someone who just wants to close tickets. It's for a lateral thinker who looks at a manual process and immediately designs the system that makes it disappear, someone who builds like an owner and ships with confidence.

AI & Automation

Design, build, and maintain AI-driven workflows that automate real business processes — LLM integration, MCP servers, agentic pipelines, and automated ops tooling. You own technical execution end-to-end, guided by product direction.

Engineering Operations

Own monitoring, incident triage, backend production issues, cloud resource management, and back-office support for our field ops team. Autonomy to fix, automate, and improve as you go.

Cloud Infrastructure

Manage and evolve our cloud infrastructure. Keep things running, scale what needs scaling, and build new infrastructure with a bias toward simplicity and maintainability. Stack-agnostic — we care about engineering judgment over familiarity with any specific toolset.

Full Stack Contribution

Contribute across the stack when the team needs it — debugging front-end issues, supporting releases, or picking up work that doesn't fit neatly into a lane. Customer-facing app experience is a bonus, not the focus.

Stakeholder Communication

Proactively communicate with cross-functional stakeholders who aren't engineers — operations leads, commercial teams, external partners. Explain what you're building, why it matters, and what the tradeoffs are without being asked.

Required Skills

• Cloud infrastructure experience — depth of understanding over specific stack
• AI agentic software development (LLM integration, MCP, tool-use)
• CI/CD pipeline management
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Full-stack capability — able to contribute across the stack
• Strong written and verbal communication (non-negotiable)

Benefits

Employees will be provided with access to benefits in accordance with JOLT’s employee policies. These benefits include but are not limited to:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Long-Term Disability
• 401(k)
• Parental Leave

Work Eligibility

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. JOLT is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role at this time.

Accessibility & Accommodations

If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us. We are happy to support applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity

JOLT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible workplace for all employees.