Energy Talent Search is conducting a confidential search for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join a Chicago-based early-stage technology company building a next-generation AI-driven data aggregation and data intelligence platform for mid-market companies.
This is a well-funded early-stage startup with a live product paying customers and fast access to capital. The founding team has prior startup and successful exit experience and the engineering group is intentionally small senior and highly selective.
This is not an idea-stage company and not a consulting-driven organization. The product is in market customers are actively using it and the company is scaling deliberately with a strong focus on engineering quality.
The company is building a unified data platform that makes it dramatically easier for mid-market businesses to collect organize stream and act on datawithout the complexity cost and operational overhead typically associated with enterprise-scale solutions.
The platform brings together disparate data sources into a single system and enables:
Real-time data ingestion and event streaming
Centralized organization and normalization of data
AI-powered insights automation and alerts
Native Excel integration for business users
Automated workflows driven by live data signals
The product is positioned as a simpler faster mid-market alternative to heavyweight platforms such as Databricks Palantir and large consulting-driven implementations which are often expensive slow to deploy and overbuilt for this customer segment.
The focus is on practical usable data intelligence not theoretical tooling or bloated enterprise architectures.
Strong hands-on full stack software engineering experience
Proven ability to build and ship real production software
Experience working across frontend backend and application-layer systems
Comfort operating in early-stage fast-moving ambiguous environments
Startup experience strongly preferred
Strong engineering judgment and system-level thinking
Engineers who still code day-to-day
Stable work history (this role is not a fit for frequent job hoppers)
This role is NOT open to:
Contractors or consultants
Agency developers
Sales marketing product or executive profiles
Engineers who no longer code regularly
Base salary: Approximately $180000-$200000 range
Meaningful equity with real upside (equity is a core part of compensation)
Opportunity to join a company with live product and paying customers
Small elite engineering team with real ownership and autonomy
Direct impact on product direction and architecture
Opportunity to build something genuinely useful at the intersection of AI and data
Long-term upside aligned with company growth and success
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