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# Software Engineer Backend at WeaveGrid, Inc.

- **Company:** WeaveGrid, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-grid/e2d8390e-58e9-43e1-aed5-05ae7015e834

## Job description

## About Us

Our software solves the most critical emerging grid integration challenges to ensure that the impending energy transition is clean, equitable, and resilient. Our enterprise solutions help the grid absorb the coming electrification wave with ease. Utilizing modern, cloud-native platform architecture and robust systems optimization, WeaveGrid’s software is built from the ground up to tackle the most critical network challenges while meeting the stringent regulatory, security, and reliability requirements of the utility industry.

## About the job

WeaveGrid's clean energy SaaS products monitor and manage a growing portfolio of distributed energy resources, including electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems, on behalf of electric utilities. We are seeking a seasoned backend engineer to independently design, implement, and deploy software with our partner device manufacturers and utilities. In this role, you will contribute to the technical direction of the team and help raise the bar for engineering quality. The impact of your code will be broad, from deeply integrating with diverse device manufacturer APIs, to monitoring and understanding battery status, to scheduling and verifying optimal charge or discharge plans, to ingesting, aggregating, and integrating signals from various utility sources. In this role, we will ask you to:

- Design and produce high quality code for robustness, testability, and maintainability
- Work with our Python backend, relational database schemas, and microservice architecture & develop deep ownership of your area of work, including its long-term health, reliability, and technical debt
- Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to design and deliver new, scalable product features that expand our platform’s Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) capabilities.
- Collaborate with engineers to improve system reliability, data quality, effectiveness, and scalability across our product and codebase.
- Perform rollouts, instrumentation, alerting, and reliability monitoring in our production cloud environment
- Create brand new capabilities with new partners while reusing and generalizing existing modules
- Use Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, Jira/Confluence, and CircleCI
- Participate in on-call rotations, periodically (~once per quarter) serving as the frontline presence for monitoring, diagnosing, and triaging production service issues
- Coordinate with multiple teams across several codebases in the engineering organization
- Contribute to team prioritization by identifying and proposing improvements to your area of work, including new capabilities, reliability investments, and technical debt reduction
- Special projects and other duties as designated by your manager or assigned designee

## About you

- You are driven to use your skills and talents to help fix the climate crisis
- Preferred: you have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or
- You have 3+ years of relevant engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex backend systems independently
- If working remotely, you are available during core collaboration hours — approximately 9am–2pm Pacific — with flexibility outside that window.
- If you’re based in the San Francisco Bay Area, you will be working from our San Francisco office 2 days/week
- You care about the craft of software and feel a sense of ownership about code
- You leverage AI tools effectively in your workflow, including for coding, while maintaining the engineering judgment to critically evaluate and catch AI-generated errors or subtle incorrectness
- You enjoy solving hard technical problems and are excited to tackle the complexity of software that interacts with the real world
- You think in systems, independently scoping and delivering end-to-end projects with an understanding of how your work fits into the broader architecture - and you proactively surface and resolve ambiguity rather than waiting for it to be clarified
- You are proficient in a language like Go or Python and have expertise building microservices in a cloud-based backend
- You enjoy being hands-on in the full lifecycle of software development: early design, testing, production deployment, post-launch iteration, measuring and monitoring outcomes, and quickly fixing problems that may arise
- You thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment, where priorities frequently shift to meet changing business needs and you help others navigate that ambiguity effectively

The total compensation for this opportunity includes a base salary range of $116,000- 165,000 plus equity (stock options) and benefits. This is our target compensation range and is subject to multiple factors including role, level, experience, and location. Please note that WeaveGrid may not necessarily hire individuals at or near the top of the base salary range, which is usually reserved for San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle candidates. As you go through our interview process, our recruiter will work with you to identify a competitive base salary within the proposed range and combine it with an equity package to get you excited about your future at WeaveGrid.

## About WeaveGrid, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WeaveGrid provides distribution-integrated system capacity orchestration (DISCO) software that gives utilities visibility and control over local grid capacity, enabling the reliable and affordable integration of electric vehicles and distributed energy resources.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed, ~$79M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Apoorv Bhargava (CEO & Co-founder) and John Taggart (President & Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Energy software / Grid orchestration for distributed energy resources (EVs, home batteries)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – electric utilities, automotive OEMs, and EV drivers (via utility programs)
- **Mission**: “Drive rapid electrification on the electric grid” by seamlessly integrating electrified customer resources to address climate change.

## Products & Services
- **[DISCO (Distribution-Integrated System Capacity Orchestration)](https://www.weavegrid.com/)**: A DERMS platform that aggregates and dispatches behind-the-meter devices (EV chargers, home batteries) to respect transformer, feeder, and bulk-system limits. Provides hyper-local control with system-wide scalability.
- **Utility Partnerships & Programs**: WeaveGrid operates the largest distribution optimization programs in the country, helping utilities manage load growth without overbuilding infrastructure.
- **EV Charging Optimization**: Sends individualized signals to EVs to align charging with renewable generation and network capacity, improving customer experience and reducing infrastructure costs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$5.5M (LinkedIn estimate)
  - Total Funding: ~$79M across 10 rounds (latest: $28M in Dec 2024 led by Woven Capital/Toyota, with a subsequent strategic investment from LG Technology Ventures in Sep 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Woven Capital (Toyota’s growth fund), LG Technology Ventures; clients include leading US utilities
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named to **2024 Global Cleantech 100** (and 2023)
  - Active job postings increased **500% year-over-year** (as of mid-2025)
  - Employee count ~62 (down ~30% YoY, but rising hiring demand suggests stabilization/reversal)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Grid-first, systems approach**: Bottom-up orchestration from individual transformers to bulk system, not just aggregate load management.
- **Proven scale**: Operates the largest distribution optimization programs in the US, with real-world utility deployments.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders come from Tesla (Office of the CTO), Nissan, Opower, and management consulting; team includes former utility, automaker, and tech leaders.
- **Patent portfolio**: 4 patents covering optimized EV charging over distribution grids.
- **Data integration**: Bridges silos between utility grid data and DER data (EVs, chargers) for precise, locational dispatch.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**:
  - Scale DISCO platform to more utilities and larger territories
  - Deepen partnerships with automotive OEMs (Toyota, LG) to embed grid orchestration into vehicle and charger ecosystems
  - Enable “affordable electrification” by deferring infrastructure upgrades using customer-side flexibility
  - Accelerate renewable energy integration by aligning EV charging with times of solar/wind abundance

## Why Work Here
- **Mission impact**: Directly tackles one of the most critical challenges of the energy transition – managing grid load growth from electrification.
- **Culture & values**: “ACFUEL” – Accountability, Collaboration, Focus, Urgency, Empathy, Learning. Emphasis on work-life harmony, curiosity, and collaborative atmosphere.
- **Compensation & perks**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive health plans, flexible work arrangements, energy bill credits for employees.
- **Work environment**: San Francisco hub (375 Alabama St, Suite 325); offers flexible and remote-friendly options.
- **Team & growth**: Small but mission-driven team with experts from Tesla, Google, PG&E, and leading tech companies; active hiring for engineering, product, policy, and marketing roles.
- **Recognition**: “Best Places to Work” award (2023), Cleantech 100 list placements.

## Sources
1. [WeaveGrid Homepage](https://www.weavegrid.com/)
2. [WeaveGrid About Page](https://www.weavegrid.com/about)
3. [WeaveGrid Careers Page](https://www.weavegrid.com/careers)
4. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/weavegrid)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weavegrid)

## Other roles at WeaveGrid, Inc.

- [Associate Director, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships](https://feeny.ai/job/associate-director-business-development-strategic-partnerships-weavegrid-inc-3tdc8za3j3jz) — San Francisco, CA