Senior Software Engineer (Renewable Energy)

About the role

Join Powerline to help revolutionize the future electricity grid. As a VC‑backed climate‑tech company, we use machine learning and AI to optimise renewable energy and battery storage projects. This senior engineering position focuses on building the backend systems that power real‑time market data pipelines, optimisation models and AI agents.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy software that optimises renewable and battery storage operations.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists and energy market experts to integrate machine‑learning and optimisation models.
• Develop data access layers, APIs and infrastructure that support AI agents reasoning over market data.
• Contribute to user‑friendly dashboards for real‑time asset performance monitoring.
• Own the full software development lifecycle, ensuring scalability, reliability and high performance.
• Diagnose bottlenecks, resolve real‑time issues and continuously improve monitoring and alerting.

Required profile

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with large‑scale, real‑time systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python with solid testing and debugging skills.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs, distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL database design and deployment.
• Excellent communication and ability to collaborate in a distributed, cross‑functional team.

Required skills

• Python
• API development
• Distributed systems
• Data pipelines
• SQL
• NoSQL databases
• Front‑end frameworks (React, Angular, Svelte) – optional