Software Engineer, Product

Reposted 14 Days Ago
Austin, TX
In-Office
Senior level
Hardware • Software • Energy
The Modern Power Company of the Electric Era
The Role
Lead the design and development of customer-facing features for web and mobile applications, focusing on the energy experience at Base Power.
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About Base

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

About the Role

We’re looking for a product-minded engineer to lead development of the customer experience at Base.

Our apps help members understand their energy usage, manage outages, and track the performance of the battery powering their home. You will guide the architecture and technical direction of the interfaces that connect real-world energy systems with a clear, simple digital experience.

You’ll join a small, high-impact team responsible for the digital front door of Base. In this role, you will lead development of major product surfaces across web and mobile, partner closely with product and design to shape the roadmap, and ensure we ship fast, reliable software.

This role requires strong product judgment, technical leadership, and the ability to translate complex systems into simple experiences that millions of households can rely on.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead development of the customer experience across Base web and mobile applications.

  • Define and evolve frontend architecture that supports a fast, reliable, and scalable product platform.

  • Own major product surfaces end-to-end, from initial concept through production and iteration.

  • Work closely with backend engineers to design APIs and data models that support product features.

  • Translate complex energy systems into clear, intuitive user experiences.

  • Partner with product and design to shape the roadmap and deliver high-impact features.

  • Establish engineering standards and improve developer experience across the frontend stack.

  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for product engineering across the team.

  • Use analytics and experimentation to improve the member experience over time.

What You'll Bring: 

  • 7+ years of experience building production software in product or full-stack engineering roles.

  • Deep expertise in TypeScript and modern web frameworks such as React or Next.js.

  • Strong experience designing frontend architecture for complex web applications.

  • Track record of owning products or platforms from concept through launch and iteration.

  • Ability to work across the stack and collaborate closely with backend engineers on APIs and data models.

  • Strong product judgment and the ability to translate complex systems into simple user experiences.

  • Experience using product analytics, experimentation, and data to guide decisions.

  • Technical depth in software engineering. You have gone deep on difficult problems.

  • First principles thinking, grit, and a bias toward shipping.

About This Team

America's power grid is failing—electricity costs have risen even as generation gets cheaper, and blackouts are becoming more common. We're building the software that fixes it. Our team owns the entire stack: firmware that controls batteries in thousands of homes, trading algorithms that buy and sell power in real-time markets, distributed commanding systems that orchestrate a growing fleet as a single grid asset, factory software for our Austin manufacturing line, and the product experience that makes it all invisible to homeowners. If you want to write code that physically moves electrons, ships hardware, and reshapes critical infrastructure, this is the job.

Our Values
  • First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.

  • Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

  • Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.

  • Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.

  • Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.

  • Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.

  • Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.

Do the best work of your life at Base.

Top Skills

Next.Js
React
React Native
Typescript
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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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