Sr Software Engineer (Fullstack Developer)

Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us.

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The Emergency Preparedness & Response (EP&R) team builds the systems that keep critical operations running when it matters most. When storms and severe weather threaten communities and infrastructure across the US our platform enables customers to rapidly procure mobilize and manage the workforce needed to respond to and recover from storm damage often under tight timelines and high-stakes conditions. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is deeply hands-on works backward from customer pain points and business needs and measures success by impact rather than lines of code shipped. You will be a core contributor on the team: a backend-heavy full-stack engineer who learns our systems inside and out reasons rigorously about trade-offs and consistently raises the quality of what we build.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design build review and debug across the stack (backend-heavy with full-stack breadth) owning features and services end to end.
• Work backward from customer pain points and business goals to make sure youre solving the right problem before writing code.
• Build systems that are highly available resilient and easy to operate during peak-demand emergency events.
• Break down complex ambiguous problems into well-scoped achievable pieces and drive them to completion.
• Design with non-functional requirements in mind availability scalability latency reliability cost and maintainability.
• Instrument your work and use metrics to guide decisions validate impact and improve system performance.
• Partner with product operations and business stakeholders to align your work with real customer and business outcomes.
• Anticipate failure modes and contribute to operational excellence including readiness for surge scenarios during active storm events.
• Mentor junior engineers share knowledge and contribute to a culture of ownership and high standards.
• Leverage AI-powered tools and workflows to accelerate development improve quality and increase your leverage.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 45 years of demonstrable software development experience building production systems.
• Strong proficiency in high-level programming languages such as Python Java or JavaScript with backend-heavy full-stack capability.
• Proven experience building highly available maintainable and scalable systems in production.
• Solid understanding of non-functional requirements (availability scalability reliability latency cost maintainability) and how to design for them.
• A metric-driven mindset you instrument measure and let data drive decisions.
• Strong problem-solving ability and rigorous reasoning about system behavior and trade-offs.
• Ability to decompose complex ambiguous problems into smaller achievable deliverables.
• A self-starter who operates with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
• An AI-ready engineer who actively leverages AI tools to boost productivity.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience building systems that operate under high-stakes time-sensitive or surge-driven conditions (e.g. emergency response logistics on-demand marketplaces or workforce/staffing platforms).
• Familiarity with distributed systems event-driven architectures and cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure).
• Experience with observability on-call and operational excellence practices for mission-critical services.
• Experience mentoring peers or junior engineers.
• Exposure to workforce management procurement or supply/demand matching domains.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences dont perfectly align with every requirement we encourage you to apply the end you may be just who we are looking for!

The successful candidates starting wage will be determined based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.

Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply please contact a recruiting representative at 1- or email .

Itron is transforming how the world manages energy water and city services. Our trusted intelligent infrastructure solutions help utilities and cities improve efficiency build resilience and deliver safe reliable and affordable service. With edge intelligence we connect people data insights and devices so communities can better manage the essential resources they rely on to live. Join us as we create a more resourceful world: