Lead Backend Engineer

Who we are

Perch Energy is a mission-driven company that focuses on expanding access to clean and affordable energy through community solar. Community solar breaks down the traditional barriers preventing most people fromparticipatingin the renewable energy economy by making it accessible affordable and moreequitablefor all. We work in several states across the US to bring community solar to communities and individuals who can mostbenefitfrom a more inclusive energy managing the customer experience for solar farm owners Perchis able tobring electricity bill savings to the masses from renters and homeowners to businesses institutions municipalities and more by connecting them to community solar projects in their area. Perchisntjust a for-profit companywerea for-purpose companyaccelerating the shift to renewables nationwide. Everyone deserves tobenefitfrom clean energy. Everyone has a place on this Perch!

Whatwerelooking for

Wereseeking aLead Backend Engineerto join our Engineering team and help build scalable reliable systems that power our platform. You are acollaborative high-ownership engineerwho enjoys solving complex backend problems and designing systems that stand the test of time.

You bring along-term systems-thinking mindsetand are excited to work on software that expandsrenewable energy access to millions of households. Our domainoperatesin a rapidly evolving regulatory environment so we value engineers who are curious adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguitywhether that means exploring new technical approaches diving deep into data and edge cases or collaborating cross-functionally to find the right solution.

This role isfully remote based inIndiaand offers the opportunity to meaningfully influence backend architecture shape engineering best practices and work with a mission-driven high-performing team.

Whatyoullown

As aLead Backend Engineer you will have clear ownership and accountability across the backend domain:

• Backend architecture ownership: Define evolve and document backend architecture and data models with a focus on scalability performance and reliability

• API ownership: Own the design and quality ofGraphQLand backend APIs including schema design versioning strategy and backward compatibility

• Technical decision-making: Lead design discussions write technical proposals evaluate trade-offs and make decisions that balance speed with long-term system health

• Production ownership: Be accountable for backend services in production including monitoring incident response root-cause analysis and follow-through improvements

• Quality and standards:Establishand uphold backend engineering standards around testing observability security documentation and code quality

• Delivery ownership: Own backend deliverables end-to-endfrom requirements and estimation to implementation rollout and iteration

• Cross-team alignment: Act as the primary backend point of contact for Product Frontend and other stakeholders on complex initiatives

• Mentorship and leverage: Multiply team impact by mentoring engineers reviewing designs and code and unblocking others

• Platform evolution: Proactivelyidentifytechnical debt scalability risks and opportunities to simplify and harden the platform

Whatyoulldo

• Design and buildscalable resilient backend systemsusing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL

• Lead backend implementation for complex features and integrations including external systems such asSalesforce

• Own and evolveGraphQLservicesthat power frontend and partner-facing applications

• Partner closely with frontend engineers to define clean efficient backendfrontend contracts

• Improve system reliability throughtesting monitoring alerting and operational best practices

• Ship production-ready codefrequentlyusing amodern CI/CD pipeline

• Review code and designs with a strong focus on maintainability performance and long-term impact

What will help you succeed

Experience & leadership

• 8 yearsof experience building and operating high-availability backend systems

• Demonstrated experience leading backend initiatives and owning systems beyond individual features

• Strong fundamentals insystem design API design and datamodelling

• Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders andactively represent backend engineering in key discussions calls during the IST collaboration window.

• Proven experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team

• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and iterating toward robust solutions

Backend & infrastructure

• Strong experience withRubyandRuby on Rails

• Experience designing and owningGraphQLAPIs(Apollo or similar)

• Advanced SQL skills and experience withPostgreSQLor similar relational databases

• Hands-on experience with AWS servicessuch as S3 SQS SESEventBridge or similar cloud-native services.

• Containerization usingDocker

• Exposure to distributed systemsor platform engineering

• Familiarity with background jobs async processing and event-driven workflows

Bonus points for

• Experience integrating withSalesforce or other enterprise platforms

• Strong opinions (loosely held)on backend architecture scalability and system design

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineeringsuch as using modern AI tools for coding debugging testing documentation or exploring LLM-based workflows in backend systems

• Familiarity withobservability and distributed tracing toolssuch asOpenTelemetry Jaeger Prometheus or similar

• Experience withcontainer orchestration and deploymentusing Kubernetes and Helm charts

• Passion for sustainability clean energy and buildingmission-driven products

What success looks like in this role

• Backend systems scale reliably as usage data volume and complexity grow

• Engineers move faster due to clear APIs architecture and standards

• Production issues areidentifiedearly and resolved with lasting fixes

• Technical debt is addressed proactively rather than reactively

• The backend platform enables product teams instead of limiting them

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation based on market standards.

• Apart from Fixed Base Salary potential candidates are eligible for following benefits

• Flexible Leave Policy

• Office is in the heart of the city in case you need to step in for any purpose.

• Medical Insurance (15 Family Members)

• We provide comprehensive coverage including accident policy and life Insurance.

• Annual performance cycle

• Quarterly team engagement activities and rewards & recognitions

• L&D programs to foster professional growth

• A supportive engineering culture that values diversity empathy teamwork trust and efficiency

Eliminatingcarbon footprintseliminatingcarbon copies.Here at Perch we cultivate diversity celebrate individuality and believe unique perspectives are key to our collective success in creating a clean energy future. Perch is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of racecolor religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information protected veteran status or any status protected by applicable federal state or local law. While we are currently unable to consider candidates who willrequirevisa sponsorship we welcome applications from all qualified candidates eligible to work in India.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation toparticipatein the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request

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