Software Engineer (Senior or Principal)

About Energy VaultEnergy Vault develops and deploys sustainable energy storage solutions designed to transform the world's approach to utility-scale energy storage in realizing decarbonization while maintaining grid resiliency. The company's proprietary gravity-based energy storage technology, battery storage technology, and energy storage management and integration platform are intended to help utilities, independent power producers and large industrial energy users significantly reduce their levelized cost of energy while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial re-use, Energy Vault is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the clean energy transition for its customers. For additional information, please visit: www.energyvault.com.
Position Title: Software Engineer (Senior or Principal)Reports To: Director, Software EngineeringLocation: Tysons Corner, VA with work-from-home flexibility or REMOTE USA About the roleEnergy Vault is looking for a talented Software Engineer to help craft our software for intelligent energy applications.  You will work with a talented software team to design, develop, and deploy software bringing advanced software automation to the power grid.  You will have the opportunity to work with emerging technologies and put solutions into production on real-world projects.  You will be joining an early-stage software team to help transform utility-scale power generation and storage. 

What you will do

• Design and develop software for controlling and automating energy systems with opportunities to work on hardware control software as well as cloud applications
• Create novel software solutions to solve unique technical challenges
• Develop a hardware agnostic software architecture and tailor our solutions to solve our customers' emerging projects

What a qualified candidate should possess

• A solid foundation in software engineering, computer science, and software development best practices
• 3+ years of experience (5+ or more preferred) developing and deploying software in cloud-based architectures (AWS Preferred) in an agile team environment
• BS or MS in engineering (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related)
• Experience in developing Java based software products in data intensive applications involving concurrency and networking
• Experience with CI/CD development automation pipelines and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience developing and configuring both high-performance nonrelational databases (such as InfluxDB, Elastic Search) and relational databases (such as Oracle, PostgreSQL)
• Deep understanding of software architectures and networking
• Experience with development in Linux and a solid foundation in Linux fundamentals
• Experience with automation and scripting in Python is preferred
• Experience with software peer reviews and comfortable providing and receiving review feedback
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Independent and capable of working in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in renewable energy, industrial IoT, or the energy industry is preferred

At Energy Vault we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We believe inclusion creates opportunity for collaborative excellence through diversity of thought. We invite individuals of all genders, races, identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, national origins, abilities, protected veteran status, religions, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds to explore employment with our organization.