Senior Cloud/IoT Applications Engineer

About the role

You will design, build, and maintain the cloud and telematics applications that power our distributed energy fleet management platform, working day to day within an Agile team. You will own the full lifecycle of cloud and IoT features from initial requirements gathering through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement in a fast paced environment. You will collaborate closely with product owners, hardware engineers, and operations to translate business needs into robust, scalable application solutions. You will implement secure and reliable integrations between edge devices, cloud services, and internal tools to ensure data integrity and real time visibility. You will proactively identify performance bottlenecks and reliability risks, then refine the architecture to keep the platform stable and efficient. You will mentor junior engineers on best practices for cloud development, testing, and operational excellence within the team. You will contribute to on call responsibilities to support production incidents and help maintain high availability of critical services. You will help define and improve the technical roadmap for the telematics and energy management capabilities of our platform.

Key facts

What you'll do

Investigate and clarify complex business requirements for new cloud and IoT capabilities with stakeholders and convert them into technical specifications. Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs using cloud native patterns to support device data ingestion, processing, and analytics. Build and maintain robust integrations with IoT edge devices, leveraging secure protocols and data models to ensure reliable telemetry and control. Implement data storage solutions and queries that enable efficient historical analysis, reporting, and real time dashboards for fleet visibility. Write clean, testable, and well documented code while adhering to internal standards, security policies, and operational best practices. Collaborate with the operations team to instrument monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud services and IoT pipelines to support rapid troubleshooting. Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives to deliver incremental value and adapt to changing priorities. Refactor legacy components and improve the architecture to enhance scalability, resilience, and maintainability of the fleet management platform. Support deployment pipelines, configuration management, and environment provisioning to streamline release cycles and reduce manual effort. Mentor and guide junior engineers on code quality, debugging techniques, and effective use of cloud development tools. Partner with hardware engineers to align device behavior with cloud expectations, ensuring smooth interoperability and data consistency. Explore and prototype new cloud services and integration patterns to address emerging business needs or technical challenges. Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing to enable smooth handovers and long term maintainability. Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and observability of the telematics and energy management applications.

Requirements

Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or at any time during employment. Must reside in the United States at the time of hire. Must have at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Must have proven experience developing cloud applications and services using modern programming languages and frameworks. Must have hands on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Must be comfortable working with relational and NoSQL databases, writing efficient queries and managing schema changes. Must have a strong understanding of networking, HTTP, REST APIs, and secure communication patterns. Must be proficient with Infrastructure as Code tools and cloud provider services for provisioning and automation. Must demonstrate the ability to work effectively in an Agile environment and collaborate with cross functional teams. Must have strong problem solving skills and the willingness to debug complex issues in distributed systems. Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally with both technical and non technical stakeholders. Must be self motivated, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced setting. Must have a track record of taking ownership and delivering high quality software on schedule. Must be comfortable reading and interpreting technical specifications and requirements documents.

Practical notes

The work schedule is weekdays from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This role is fully onsite and reports to the Director of Software Development.