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Location: United States (Remote)

What is Verse?

Energy markets are more volatile than ever. Rapid electrification and the rise of AI are driving unprecedented demand for power, while energy costs continue to rise across the globe. For the world's largest energy buyers, managing energy has never been more complex or more critical.

Verse helps these organizations manage complex power portfolios with confidence by unifying energy data, planning, forecasting, and operations in one tool. Our Energy Cost Intelligence platform, Aria, brings together energy, finance, and operations teams with real-time, finance-ready intelligence—replacing spreadsheets and consultants with precision across the entire energy lifecycle. Built by an expert team of energy buyers, data scientists, and engineers, Verse enables faster, smarter energy decisions that reduce risk and lower energy costs.

The Role

You will be a member of the technical staff developing product experiences and features for clean energy buyers — our customers, businesses who spend millions of dollars in operational expenses each year on energy and who need analytics and insights into their portfolios of renewable energy assets. In this role, you will serve in a "full stack" capacity designing, building, and maintaining frontend and backend components of our Buyer Solutions suite of applications. We use Typescript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Radix/ShadCN, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Vitest, and Storybook with Echarts and D3/Observable for data visualization for our frontend, and Cloudflare Pages for hosting and content delivery. We rely on identity and auth platforms like Clerk for sign-in flows. Our backend is written in Go and Python with Postgres/AlloyDB and blob storage for data persistence.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and proactive communication with a high degree of transparency, mutual respect, and consideration for teammates
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UI/UX designers, and other engineers to develop intuitive, user-friendly Buyer Solutions software experiences
• Design, build, test, debug, maintain, and scale user-facing software and closely related components up and down the stack
• Integrate frontend components with backend APIs while efficiently rendering and presenting interactive data visualizations
• Implement backend APIs, middleware, and integrate these layers with databases
• Manage user authentication and authorization, sessions, and tokens using services like Clerk or Auth0 for secure user login systems.
• Optimize application performance, reliability, and scalability with content delivery networks
• Evaluate and recommend new software tools, systems, and architectures as the product evolves

What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

• Customer empathy and obsession to craft quality user experiences
• Hands-on experience working in both frontend (e.g. Typescript, React) and backend (e.g. Go, Python) software ecosystems
• Ability to translate complex product requirements into functional software, and speak the language of engineers and designers
• Commitment to delivering high quality software on time or ahead of schedule while adhering to best software development practices
• Continuous obsession for staying informed on contemporary technologies, tools, libraries, services, frameworks, or breakthroughs that could benefit the team
• Discipline using generative AI tools in day-to-day work

What Will Make You Standout (Preferred Qualifications)

• A bachelor's degree or higher, not necessarily in a STEM field
• Senior or Staff level software development talent and up
• Proven track record being a technical leader in high-performing product engineering teams
• Expert programming skills with Typescript and Go, advanced experience with Python is a big plus
• Advanced experience developing in the gRPC + Protocol Buffer ecosystem (we use Buf's Connect SDK)
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and blob storage (e.g. GCS or S3)
• Experience authoring and maintaining UI kits, design systems, component libraries
• Keen sense and natural intuition for UI/UX design principles
• Understanding of content delivery networks (CDN) and edge server solutions
• Desire to be a generalist throughout the product engineering stack
• System design and architecture knowledge]
• Technical project management skills in agile, product-focused teams
• Willingness and flexibility to operate in high-pressure environments where priorities can easily shift or pivot depending on user needs

What Makes Verse a Great Place to Work?

• Lead with Empathy: We lift each other up with humility and kindness, always putting colleagues and customers first
• Be Honest & Transparent: We prioritize effective communication to build trust with our team, customers, and stakeholders
• Move with Balance & Precision: We believe speed and perseverance must be accompanied by thoughtfulness and reflection
• Leave the World a Better Place: We are passionate about our mission, and we strive to create a sustainable world for future generations

Base Pay Range

$150,000 - $240,000+

This is the estimated base salary range for this position, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to level, skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs.

Benefits and Employee Perks

• Competitive compensation and equity grant at a high-growth start up
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance, and 401k
• Flexible hours and unlimited PTO
• Diverse and inclusive working environment

Verse is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and compensation without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.