Job Details
Software Engineer
PearlX Infrastructure LLC | Location: Remote-first | Full time
About PearlX
Founded in 2019, PearlX builds, owns, operates flexible infrastructure. For our energy customers, PearlX s portfolio enables resilience and independence. For our infrastructure investors, PearlX eases capital formation and enables the energy transition. The Company s mission is to generate long-life current yield for its partners and shareholders. We believe that mission is achieved by selling the most flexible electron with the highest energy margins.
PearlX Technology Stack
Battery software for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) has become mainstream, punctuated most recently by the IPO of Stem for $1.35B. Now that these software vendors have demonstrated that batteries installed in people s homes and at commercial and industrial complexes can replace natural gas power plants, the next phase of software will enable investors and utilities to become completely comfortable relying on them.
Investors and utilities need software to provide real time monitoring and fault tolerance capabilities for VPPs. Hardware and software that power workplaces, homes, schools, and hospitals needs to be rock solid.
This software is complex and thus must encompass the following:
- Orchestrate a large number of components: Virtual Bidders, Portfolio Optimizers, Energy Management Systems, Market Forecasting, and Real Estate Management Systems
- Back-test the output from those components to ensure optimal performance
- Perform A/B testing to validate assumptions
- Model connectivity and transmission issues in a geographically distributed multi-nodal network
- Serverless based architecture for cost optimization & enable horizontal scalability
We believe that this software will unlock investor interest in the short term, and a developer ecosystem in the long term. In order to improve resiliency, PearlX intends to be at the center of incorporating blockchain technology that would also help improve data integrity and privacy by taking advantage of blockchain s democratization of control.
Building the monitoring and fault tolerance layer lets us work with our component vendors to normalize their APIs, building an OS for Virtual Power Plants. That allows interoperability, extensions, and new innovations without our involvement. Imagine a virtual power plant that is aware of a critical data center job, saving enough energy to provide adequate compute.
Currently, PearlX has completed the first release (version 1.0) of the software and gearing towards development of the version 2.0 scheduled to be released Q1 2023 that encompasses realization of PearlX's mission of developing a truly scalable distributed application intelligent middleware platform.
The technology team consists of members that bring together technology a vast experience in the smart grid, predictive analytics, and machine learning; utilizing MLOps and DevOps principles to drive business insights to help innovate in a traditional engineering industry. Our team has over 22 years of combined experience building technology solutions within the smart grid and energy space.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Meeting with the stakeholders to define the scope and scale of software projects.
- Designing software system architecture and defining appropriate technology to use.
- Designing and implementing scalable web services, applications, and APIs.
- Developing and maintaining internal software tools and project roadmaps
- Identifying bottlenecks, improving software efficiency, troubleshooting and bug fixing
Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in computer engineering or computer science
- Previous experience as a full stack engineer
- Advanced knowledge in back-end languages including Python, Java, Rails, Ruby, .NET, and PHP.
- Proficient knowledge of front-end languages including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery.
- Knowledge of database systems and SQL.
- High-level project management skills.
Bonus
- Previous exposure to the energy, financial and/or securities domain
- Previous startup experience would be a huge plus
- Previous lead software architect experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary in a fast-paced, start-up company
- 100% remote position with the possibility of some travel
- Fun, fast-paced, start-up environment
U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and those authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer will be considered.