Senior Software Engineer (Connect Platform)

ABOUT ENODE

The grid was built for predictable, centralised power. Today it's absorbing intermittent supply from grid scale solar and wind, alongside dynamic demand from EVs, heat pumps, and home batteries. The missing piece is software that can connect and orchestrate these devices at scale.

Enode https://enode.com provides the infrastructure layer that makes this possible. Our Connect https://enode.com/connect API gives energy companies a single integration to 1000+ devices across 80+ brands. Our optimisation https://enode.com/optimize tooling gives energy companies the building blocks to manage those devices locally - think smart charging for EVs. Our Flex https://enode.com/flex product turns those connected devices into a flexible, controllable asset for energy companies.

We work with device manufacturers across the energy hardware ecosystem - from EV brands to heat pump and solar inverter producers. Our customers are energy retailers, utilities, and traders building the next generation of energy services. We're backed by Y Combinator, Lowercarbon Capital, and Creandum.

The decisions made now will shape how the energy system gets built. We're looking for people who take ownership, move fast, and care deeply about the role technology can play in the energy transition.

AI IS FUNDAMENTAL TO HOW WE WORK

AI is how a team our size keeps rewiring the way we work, fast enough to match what our mission demands. We look for people who reach for AI as a reflex and who can drop a habit that used to work. People who care about unblocking others, not just about what they ship themselves. If that's not quite how you work yet but it's the direction you're heading, we'd still like to hear from you. We assess this in our interview process, alongside everything else we look at.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to make Enode’s EV platform more reliable, observable, and efficient.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform Connect team at Enode, you'll focus on improving the reliability, observability, and scalability of Enode's connectivity layer. This is the part of our API that aggregates integrations with EV chargers, vehicles, and OEM platforms into one cohesive and reliable product for our customers.

This is not an infrastructure or DevOps role. The Platform Connect team owns the product level platform that powers connectivity at Enode, maintaining and extending the layer that links our users to energy devices through consistent, high quality integrations.

You'll take on complex, critical for the business work and see it through, helping keep our platform robust as we scale to more OEMs and partners. Alongside the other senior engineers on the team, you'll help set the technical bar and support the people around you. Expect to move between hands on building, shaping technical direction, and helping teammates, depending on what the team needs most.

Our tech stack centers around a TypeScript based codebase combined with React, Node, AWS, Docker, and PostgreSQL, structured via CDK/CloudFormation.

In this role, you will:

• Build and maintain API integrations with OEMs and energy partners, ensuring they are reliable, performant, and well tested.
• Build with AI as a normal part of how you work, and turn what you learn into tools, skills and processes the rest of the team picks up, so the leverage is shared rather than personal.
• Strengthen the connectivity platform by reducing incidents and improving observability, monitoring, and alerting, including the automations and internal tools that make this easier.
• Take on complex projects and drive them through to release, breaking them into actionable work and delivering with limited hand-holding.
• Help hold a high bar on code quality, testing, and observability, caring about the state of the codebase beyond your own changes.
• Work with product and the team to align platform priorities, balancing stability with delivery.
• Take ownership beyond your own work and support the engineers around you, sharing knowledge and contributing to technical decisions that keep the team aligned.

THIS ROLE WILL BE RIGHT FOR YOU, IF:

See AI as a strategic lever for engineering work, not just a productivity add on. AI is a real part of how we work as engineers at Enode. We expect a senior engineer to be fluent with it. Using it day to day, understanding where it helps and where it falls short, and thinking about your work in terms of what AI can take on. If you're not fully there yet, we're looking for someone eager to get there fast. Additionally:

• You have experience writing maintainable, testable backend code, ideally in an environment with a lot of API or integration work.
• You're excited about platform engineering in the product sense. Building the connectivity layer that powers integrations, not managing infrastructure or CI/CD pipelines.
• AI is a real part of how our engineers work, and we expect a senior …