Software Engineer, Data (Junior)

🌎 The Opportunity

In the next 30 years, the world will transform every part of the built environment to be climate positive green infrastructure. But today’s renewable energy development process can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are providing software and services to accelerate power development - unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it’s built with renewable energy.

🛠️ Our Solution

Paces is building the development engine for power projects and renewable infrastructure. We have built Agentic AI that automates early-stage due diligence and pairs it with in-house expertise to accelerate late-stage diligence. The result is projects that move from siting to construction-ready in a fraction of the time. Our platform supports renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, EV charging companies, and more by streamlining siting, interconnection, and permitting.

🧑‍🎨 Our Team

We are building a team where people can proudly say their time at Paces is the most impactful, meaningful work of their career. Our amazing team in Brooklyn, New York includes incredible team members from tech companies like Meta AI, DeepMind, and Tesla; various high growth startups; as well as industry leaders from TotalEnergies, Con Edison and GE. We are looking for exceptional talents to join our growing Engineering team!

🏆 What You’ll Achieve

• Build and maintain large-scale geospatial data pipelines, ensuring data quality, consistency and security
• Optimize and expand our core geo analytical features, leveraging state-of-the-art algorithms and technologies
• Work in tight collaboration with product managers and software engineers on the data product roadmap

📈 Requirements

• Relevant internships / professional experience in software engineering or data science
• Solid grasp of data engineering concepts, including ETL design patterns, data modeling and data structures
• Excellent coding proficiency with proven experience in at least one of: Python, Rust, Scala, R
• Excellent knowledge of SQL
• Hands-on experience with data orchestration tools (Dagster, Prefect, Airflow), DBMS (Postgres, DuckDB) and cloud providers (AWS, Azure)

✨ About You

You will thrive in our culture if you:

• Have a strong bias towards action and prioritize execution
• Share our passion to build something that fights climate change
• Easily handle the unstructured environment of fast moving startups
• Have the hunger to grow together with Paces as we scale up

🚀 Bonus Points

• Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup
• Experience with in-process, single-node SQL OLAP query engines: DuckDB, Polars, Arrow
• Experience with geospatial libraries: GEOS, GDAL, PyPROJ
• Experience with data bakehouses (DeltaLake, Iceberg, DuckLake)

💰 Compensation and Benefits

• 100K - 150K annual compensation
• Competitive equity compensation
• 401(k) matching
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Paid company holidays & PTO
• Hybrid work in the office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~3x per week

☀️ About Paces

🛠️ If you’re a builder who wants to actively construct a more climate positive future, join us!

🗺️ We are enabling the climate optimum use for all the world’s land and are thought leaders in the evolving data center and renewables markets.

🐶 We have a dog calendar and have dogs running around in the office.

🌞 We have world class customers and are growing!

📢 We've raised $13M+ led by Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures and Y Combinator.