Software Engineer III

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

Werelooking for aSoftware Engineer IIIwho is passionate about building reliable scalable backend systems and enjoys working across the stack when needed. You are ahandson engineerwho thrives on solving realworld problems writing clean and maintainable code and collaborating closely with teammates to deliver highquality features endtoend.

You bring strong engineering fundamentals a growth mindset and the ability to work independently on wellscoped projects owning mediumsized features from design through deployment in alignment with our engineering best contributing to technical discussions making thoughtful tradeoffs and following established architectural patterns as you deepen your understanding of our systems.

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

AsaSoftwareEngineer III you willhave clear ownershipoverfeatures with opportunities to contribute across the stack:

• Own and deliver small to medium-sized backend features end-to-end:From technical discovery and design through implementation testingdeploymentand iteration

• Take technical ownership of one or more noncritical backend services or components:Ensuringtheyremainreliable maintainable welldocumented and easy to extend.

• Write clean modular testable code:Primarily in Ruby Ruby on Rails and Python while contributing to frontend code when needed to support fullstack feature delivery.

• Contribute to the design and evolution of our APIs:IncludingGraphQLand REST endpoints that power frontend and partnerfacing applications following established architectural patterns and best practices.

• Ensure strong observability and operational health of owned services:Through logging monitoring alerting and contributing to rootcause analysis and followthrough improvements.

• Activelyparticipatein technical discussions:Bringing thoughtful perspectives that balance simplicity longterm maintainability and performance as you deepen your understanding of Perchs systems.

• Support team productivity through highquality code reviews and collaboration:Sharing context helping unblock others and contributing to a strong engineering culture.

Whatyoulldo

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

• Contributetoimplementationofcomplex features and integrations including external systems such asSalesforce

• Take technical design decisions independentlyfor your features

• Own and evolveGraphQLservicesthat power frontend and partner-facing applications

• 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

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

• Demonstrated experiencedeliveringbackendfeatures and owning systems

• Strong fundamentals insystem design API design and datamodelling

• Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Actively representengineering team inkey discussionswith US stakeholders

• Proven experience mentoringjuniorengineers and raising the technical bar of a team

• Comfortableworking in ambiguous problem spaces and iterating toward robust solutions

Backend & infrastructure

• Strong experience withPythonorRubyincludingproficiencyin at least one web framework:

• Ruby on Rails

• FastAPI Django or Flask

• Working knowledge of ReactJS with the ability to contribute to frontend components to support fullstack delivery

• 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

• Experience designing and owningGraphQLAPIs(Apollo or similar)

• 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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