Software Engineer, Product Experience

Location: United States (Remote)

What is Verse?

The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI.

At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy.

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.