Software Engineer, Backend

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Austin, TX
In-Office
Junior
Hardware • Software • Energy
The Modern Power Company of the Electric Era
The Role
As a Software Engineer, you'll design and scale BaseOS, develop backend services, manage infrastructure, and collaborate across teams to improve systems.
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About Base

Base is building the foundation of American power. The grid is the largest, most complex machine in the world. Yet it’s aging, struggling to keep up with today’s demand, and is unprepared for our electrified future.

Base is modernizing the grid as the first engineering-led, technology-driven power company. We’re deploying a nationwide network of distributed batteries that strengthens critical infrastructure and saves Americans money.

Our team of engineers, operators, creatives, technicians, and electricians design and deploy systems at speed. If you want to tackle the problem that will define this century and shape the future of American energy, now is the time. Join us.

About the Role

At Base Power, we’re building BaseOS -- the operating system that powers every part of our business and operations. From orchestrating distributed energy fleets to automating field deployment and managing customer service at scale, BaseOS is the digital nervous system behind our ambition to become the next great American power company.

As a software engineer on our team, you’ll help design and scale this system from the ground up. Your work will touch nearly every surface area of the company: powering homes, guiding deployment teams, streamlining manufacturing, enabling real-time control of energy systems, and more.

What You'll Do:

  • Build Core Systems: Design and implement backend services and APIs that form the backbone of BaseOS.

  • Own the Stack: Develop performant, reliable applications in Golang and Python, deployed across modern cloud environments (primarily AWS).

  • Automate with Precision: Use Terraform to manage infrastructure as code and Temporal to orchestrate complex workflows for deployment and control.

  • Work Across Domains: Join forces with teams across deployments, hardware, and operations to solve complex problems that span software, logistics, and infrastructure.

  • Solve for Impact: Every line of code contributes to revolutionizing the grid that powers our society.

What We're Looking For:

  • 2+ years of professional software development experience (we’re hiring across levels).

  • Proficiency in a backend language (Go, Python, Java, or similar).

  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

  • Passion for writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

  • Product intuition -- you think beyond implementation and toward the experience and outcome.

  • Bonus: Experience with IoT, distributed systems, or DevOps practices.

  • An eagerness to learn, grow, and contribute to an ambitious team.

Our Values

We’re building a winning culture and we’re looking for people who are up for the challenge. Here’s what we expect from day one:

  • In-Person Only: We work full-time in the office. No hybrid. No remote.

  • Challenge the Status Quo: Question assumptions. Fix broken systems. Principles > rules.

  • Move Fast: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

  • Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble. Challenge ideas–including your own.

  • Own the Outcome: Take full responsibility. Deliver results. No excuses.

  • Act Like an Owner: Be resourceful, mindful of impact, and committed to the business.

  • Be Decisive: Drive clarity. Make bold calls with imperfect info.

  • Bring the Intensity: This is not a 9-to-5. We're building something hard which requires real commitment.

Top Skills

AWS
Docker
Go
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
230 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Our mission at Base is to fix the power grid and enable affordable and reliable electricity for all. As America electrifies, our outdated power systems strain leaving families vulnerable to outages and rising costs. Base deploys home batteries that maintain household power during outages while stabilizing the grid day-to-day.

By creating a distributed energy storage network across Texas, we're making electricity more reliable & affordable, and laying the foundation for energy abundance at scale.

Why Work With Us

We are building America’s Next-Generation Power Company; the first engineering-led, technology-focused, R&D-driven electricity company. We are a team of tenacious engineers, operators, and creatives who have solved hard problems. If you’re passionate about tackling one of the most critical challenges of our time, now is the time to join us.

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