The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of software solutions to address customer needs in Heila’s target markets. As part of their role, they must be able to partner with Heila’s Product Team to deliver complex technical features to manage large, distributed energy resources (DER) projects. They must also collaborate closely with Heila’s Project Team to understand and account for project delivery capabilities and feature development timelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of software solutions to address customer needs in Heila’s target markets. These solutions might be a web service, standalone tool, or user-facing web application.
  
• Identify and address bottlenecks and bugs on existing applications, while devising long-term solutions to these problems.
  
• Facilitate and drive knowledge sharing by owning and maintaining comprehensive documentation.
  
• Play a leading role in product scoping and roadmap / architecture discussions.
  
• Push company innovation efforts and stay up to date on software industry trends and best practices.
  
• Work collaboratively with software engineers, power system engineers, and hardware engineers to define key milestones and manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  
• Stay current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the company excel.
  
• Foster positive and effective business relationships at all levels.

Skills/Requirements

• 5+ years working in Software Development with a leadership or solutions-driven role.
  
• MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field is preferred.
  
• Proven experience programming in Java and Python.
  
• Strong experience building microservices and distributed and scalable enterprise class applications.
  
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind scalable applications.
  
• Fundamental knowledge of software engineer best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipeline.
  
• Interest in learning about control and optimization systems used in DER projects.
  
• Interest in learning about DER equipment and applications – including solar arrays, batteries, generators, fuel cells, among others.
  
• Interest in learning about resilience and economic use cases in DER projects.

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• If you are interested in this role, please visit Kohler’s Job Portal and apply directly.