Staff Full Stack Engineer - Sell Side Engine

Tem; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

tem is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join Origination & New Products, a new three-person squad inside Sell Side Growth. This is a deep, hands-on IC role focused on integrating Origination with Rosso, Data, and Billing to scale our energy platform.

You’ll own architecture-level decisions, ship new product categories, and tackle tendering automation and pricing workflows in a Python/AWS serverless stack, with React/TypeScript exposure, delivering high-impact capabilities for our growth.

Qualifications

• Deep backend and systems design experience with ownership of architecture-level decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture-level decisions for integration-heavy systems.

Skills

Python

AWS serverless

System architecture

Backend engineering

React/TypeScript exposure

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

EventBridge

React

TypeScript

Tools

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

EventBridge

React

TypeScript

Job description

Who We Are:

We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair.

Our goal is to put power back where it belongs, in the hands of customers and to take on one of the most critical problems of our century, access to low cost electricity.

tem exists to fix a broken global energy market that’s long favoured legacy operators, intermediaries, and opaque pricing. Today’s electricity system was not designed for rapid decarbonisation, AI-driven efficiency or fair access for the actual users - businesses and generators.

We’ve built the first AI native transaction infrastructure to reinvent how electricity is bought, sold and priced. Our technology is designed to cut out the inefficient fees, automate complex market flows, and bring transparency and fairness to energy transactions at scale.

In late 2025, after extraordinary growth, we closed a $75 million Series B - led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Albion, Atomico, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital and others - positioning us for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership.

We’re scaling internationally and building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide.

Since launch, our modern utility product, known as RED, has already facilitated thousands of business customers and billions in energy transaction value, proving that modern software and AI can transform an industry built on legacy systems.

At tem, we’re not just building another energy company, we’re rearchitecting market infrastructure so that transparency, efficiency and sustainability become the default, not the exception.

THE ROLE:

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join Origination & New Products, a new three‑person squad inside Sell Side Growth.

Sell Side Growth originates, contracts, and retains the renewable generators whose volume powers our platform - without generators, there's no product. The engine is scaling fast, and much of the manual process underneath today's pipeline - tendering, contracting, onboarding - needs to be rebuilt to handle that growth rather than buckle under it.

This is a deep, hands‑on IC role, not a squad‑lead one - that’s owned by the Staff/Senior Staff engineer leading the initiative. You’re free to go all‑in on the hardest technical problems: integration with Rosso (our pricing and settlement engine), Control Room (our core tendering and pipeline platform), and the deal‑gating risk tooling that lets us take on genuinely new categories of commercial risk safely. We’re not hiring for leadership polish here. We’re hiring a ridiculously good engineer.

In your first 12 months, you might:

• Own architecture‑level decisions on the integration‑heavy systems connecting Origination & New Products to Rosso, Data, and Billing.
• Help ship the first new product category live and generating qualified pipeline within 6 months.
• Help solve the tendering automation problem that currently limits how much volume the team can quote on - one of the highest‑leverage levers for supporting our growth.
• Contribute to productising a currently manual, error‑prone pricing process that's already turning away large, complex deals.
• Design deal‑gating risk tooling for commercial risk categories that don't exist yet at tem, within our React/TypeScript and Python/AWS serverless stack.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Go deep on hard systems: Own architecture‑level decisions on integration‑heavy systems, reasoning clearly about boundaries, contracts, and failure modes.
• Build for ambiguity: Take a piece of an undefined, commercially‑driven problem and turn it into a shippable plan, within the direction your squad lead sets.
• Work across boundaries: Deliver on dependencies that sit with teams you have no authority over, such as Rosso, Data, and Billing, getting integrations right without needing to own the relationship.
• Build with impact: Design, build, and ship the hardest parts of the new‑product build sequence yourself, backend‑first but comfortable moving into the React/TypeScript front end when it matters.
• Maintain high standards: Write clean, well‑tested code, contribute to code reviews, and help improve team practices and documentation.

REQUIREMENTS:

Must‑Haves:

• Deep technical depth in backend and systems design, with a track record of owning architecture‑level decisions on complex, integration‑heavy systems.
• Comfortable in our core stack: Python, AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge), and event‑driven architectures. React/TypeScript exposure is a plus but not the bar.
• Comfort operating without a full spec: able to take a defined slice of an ambiguous problem and turn it into a shippable plan.
• Experience delivering work where a critical dependency sits with a team you have no authority over.
• Proven product delivery experience: experience as a Full …