Full Stack Engineer at Grid Status

About us

Grid Status is revolutionizing the energy industry with a modern and open data analytics platform. Our mission is to provide accessible, actionable energy data to accelerate the energy transition.

In just two years, weve grown from zero to over 20,000 monthly active users across all facets of the energy sector. Our data has been featured in reporting and analysis by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Federal Reserve. Thousands of users rely on our products monthly, including renewable developers, asset operators, utilities, energy traders, and innovative startups.

What were looking for

As an early member of our engineering team, you will have a hand in both defining and implementing the product we deliver to customers. We take pride in building not only great products but also robust systems that allow for rapid development to meet our customers needs. The ideal candidate will enjoy taking on high-impact projects and executing them with an eye for user experience and design.

No experience in the energy industry is necessary-just a strong eagerness to learn. Our team's passion and expertise will help you quickly get up to speed.

Location: Remote (USA) / Hybrid (Chicago)

Products you'll work on

You will work on all aspects of our web application building highly-interactive and data-intensive new products that surface energy markets data while also extending features for existing products including:

Live Market Pages

Nodal Price Map

Insights

and many more

What you'll do

Architect and implement major product features for our API and web app

Design intuitive interfaces for our data-intensive product, backed by maintainable Pydantic models that validate FastAPI responses, which serve Postgres data accessed via SQLAlchemy

Flex up and down the stack in order to take projects to the finish line

Optimize application for speed and scalability across various devices and browsers

Implement and maintain quality assurance processes, including testing

Regularly participate in code reviews and help maintain high standards of code quality

Continuously refine existing UX implementations to improve performance and usability as the product scales

Develop and uphold best practices, coding standards, and engineering processes for the team

Who you are

You are willing to dive into problems and solve them yourself - as one of our early engineers, you won't have anyone to delegate to

You are proficient at communicating asynchronously through writing, minimizing the need for disruptive meetings

Experience building complex single-page applications; experience working on UI/UX for data-intensive software is a big plus.

You've successfully built and evolved systems to meet production SLAs at meaningful scale

You thrive working on small teams and being given a lot of autonomy

You are willing to dive into whatever layer of the stack is necessary to solve the problem the right way

Legal right to work in the United States

Technical skills and tools

Languages: TypeScript, Python

Frontend Stack: React, ECharts, React Query, Mapbox

Backend Stack: FastAPI, Postgres, Snowflake, Stripe, Clerk, AWS, Render

Tooling: GitHub, Sentry, Better Stack

Not sure if you meet all of the qualifications? We value eagerness to learn and grow more than having checked every box.

Compensation and benefits

$135k-$235k plus equity

Health insurance with 100% premium covered

401(k) plan with employer match

PTO and sick leave