Standard Potential is an innovative energy storage startup deploying solutions to make power more affordable and reliable. Our mission is to expand access to load flexibility through distributed storage. We currently operate New York City’s largest indoor residential battery virtual power plant with Con Edison, as featured in Canary Media and CBS New York. Standard Potential is headquartered in the NYC energy and climate technology ecosystem and supported by prominent partners such as NYSERDA, Activate, and Breakthrough Energy.

Software Engineer

Full-time · Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid) · $120k–$160k base, plus equity/benefits · [email protected]

About Every Electric

Every Electric (www.everyelectric.com) is an early-stage grid technology company building distributed energy storage to make electricity more affordable and reliable. We operate New York City’s largest indoor residential battery virtual power plant in partnership with Con Edison, aggregating residential battery storage to deliver demand response and grid flexibility services. Plug-in HVAC accounts for roughly 20% of Con Edison’s peak capacity — 2.5 GW of load — and our mission is to make that load flexible by putting a battery in every home.

We are backed by NYSERDA, Activate, and Breakthrough Energy, and our work has been featured in Canary Media, CBS New York, and AP News. We are headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

The Role

As a Software Engineer at Every Electric, you will build and operate the software that controls our distributed battery fleet and dispatches it during utility demand response events. The systems you work on translate utility signals and customer data into reliable, observable control commands to physical battery assets deployed in homes across New York City. This is a backend-focused role with direct production responsibility for hardware operating in the field.

You will work closely with the founding team on the core systems of the company — device telemetry ingestion, dispatch logic, utility and customer data integrations, and the observability tooling that keeps them reliable. As an early engineering hire, you will take features from design through deployment and own them in production. This role offers significant technical ownership and a clear path to growth as the engineering team expands.

Responsibilities

• Control systems: Build and maintain the services that ingest battery telemetry and translate utility signals into reliable, auditable charge and discharge commands across the fleet.
• End-to-end delivery: Design, build, deploy, and operate backend services, data pipelines, and APIs, owning them through their full lifecycle in production.
• Data integrations: Develop and maintain integrations that ingest utility meter data, program signals, and customer account information, and expose them through well-defined internal APIs.
• Reliability and observability: Build the monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident-response tooling required to operate physical grid assets continuously.
• Development velocity: Use modern AI-assisted development tools to build and ship efficiently; we expect engineers to be proficient with them.

Requirements

• Experience: 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Backend fundamentals: Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Python, TypeScript, or Go) and the ability to design clean, testable services and APIs.
• Databases: Working proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), including schema design and SQL.
• Cloud infrastructure: Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (AWS or GCP), including serverless functions and object storage, and comfort owning deploys and CI/CD.
• AI-assisted development: Proficiency with modern AI coding tools and a demonstrated ability to use them to increase delivery speed.
• Domain interest: Interest in energy systems, grid modernization, and decarbonization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with event-driven or queue-based systems (e.g., SQS, Kafka) and third-party API integration where reliability, retries, and idempotency matter.
• Experience with IoT or device fleets, hardware-integrated software, or time-series data.
• Exposure to utility or energy market integrations (demand response, OpenADR, AMI data).

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary of $120,000–$160,000, plus equity and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, and a flexible leave policy. Every Electric is an equal opportunity employer.