Senior Software Engineer - EMS

About the company

Kimbal is an energy engineering company developing advanced metering infrastructure, power quality, energy management, and battery storage solutions.

About this role

<h1>Senior Software Engineer – EMS</h1> <h2>Role Description</h2> <p>Kimbal is looking for a engineer with a strong emphasis on problem solving and ownership. You&nbsp;will build technology that makes the energy ecosystem smarter, more efficient, and more&nbsp;reliable, working on challenging problems at the intersection of software, data, and&nbsp;energy.<br><br>You won't always get perfectly defined requirements or a detailed implementation plan.&nbsp;We expect you to understand the problem, ask the right questions, break it down, design&nbsp;a solution, and take it all the way to production.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Solve complex and ambiguous engineering problems with minimal hand-holding.</li> <li>Decompose product and business problems into smaller, well-defined engineering&nbsp;problems.</li> <li>Design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend systems.</li> <li>Write clean, readable, testable, and extensible code.</li> <li>Design APIs, services, workflows, and data models.</li> <li>Work with event-driven and asynchronous systems.</li> <li>Design database schemas and write efficient SQL.</li> <li>Analyze and optimize database queries and system performance.</li> <li>Participate in both Low-Level Design and High-Level Design.</li> <li>Own features end-to-end — from understanding the problem to production and&nbsp;beyond.</li> <li>Work closely with product and domain experts to turn real-world energy problems into&nbsp;software solutions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Job Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of software engineering experience.</li> <li>Strong proficiency in at least one programming language; Java, Python, or Node.js&nbsp;preferred.</li> <li>Strong Data Structures &amp; Algorithms and problem-solving skills.</li> <li>Strong Low-Level Design skills and ability to write maintainable, extensible code.</li> <li>Good understanding of High-Level Design and distributed systems.</li> <li>Understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.</li> <li>Strong understanding of relational databases, schema design, SQL, indexing, and&nbsp;query optimization.</li> <li>Enjoys solving problems where the solution isn't obvious and can work effectively with&nbsp;ambiguous requirements.</li> <li>Strong product decomposition skills, with the ability to understand the business&nbsp;problem behind a technical requirement.</li> <li>Makes thoughtful engineering trade-offs and doesn't require constant direction or&nbsp;hand-holding.</li> <li>Is curious and learns new technologies and domains quickly.</li> <li>Takes ownership, follows problems through to completion, and cares about simplicity,&nbsp;maintainability, and long-term engineering quality.<br><br></li> </ul> <p><strong>Why This Role?</strong></p> <p>You will work on problems that have a real-world impact. Our engineering challenges&nbsp;include optimizing energy storage and consumption, working with changing energy prices&nbsp;and demand, processing large amounts of energy data, and building systems that can&nbsp;make reliable decisions in a complex and evolving energy environment.</p> <p>You don't need prior experience in the energy domain. What matters more is your ability&nbsp;to learn, reason about complex problems, and build excellent software.</p> <p>If you enjoy going from Ambiguous Problem → Product Decomposition → System Design →&nbsp;Code → Production → Customer Impact, you'll fit right in.</p>