Senior Product Engineer

SolarAPP Foundation•California City, CA

6d•$140,000 - $190,000

About The Position

We are hiring three Senior Product Engineers who will expand our engineering team at SolarAPP Foundation. In this role, you will work closely with the CTO, Product Team, Customer Support team, and a diverse community of solar installers, municipalities, and clean energy experts to build software that fundamentally improves how clean energy systems are permitted and installed in the U.S. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You will work across the entire technology stack, designing APIs, building user-facing interfaces, and scaling cloud infrastructure. You’ll help define not just how we build our product, but what we build, applying strong product engineering principles in a mission-driven environment. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who wants to apply their skills toward meaningful social impact while helping shape the foundation of a growing organization.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building and supporting production SaaS applications
Experience working across the full technology stack, from front-end UI to cloud infrastructure
Experience with an MVC framework such as Laravel (used at SolarAPP), Ruby on Rails, Django, or similar
Experience building on AWS (used at SolarApp) or other cloud platforms for deploying and managing applications; you know how to debug these when things go wrong and have opinions on how to architect for long term maintainability and scalability.
Proven ability to design, build, and document production-grade APIs (including versioning and integrations)
Experience supporting live systems, debugging issues, and performing root cause analysis
Comfort collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to shape product decisions
Strong sense of ownership and ability to lead engineering efforts on a small team
Experience using the newest AI development tooling such as Cursor or Claude Code to accelerate your efforts in a safe, reliable way

Nice To Haves

Experience working in government technology or clean energy domains
Background or familiarity with electrical engineering concepts, or solar / energy storage systems
Experience on small engineering teams (fewer than 6 engineers) supporting production software
Experience building modern front-end interfaces using frameworks like Vue or React
Experience collaborating with partners to design and build rich integrations
Familiarity with software automation & documentation
Experience with data modeling or database design

Responsibilities

Craft high quality software, leveraging your expertise: We expect that everyone on the team has their area of expertise but is also comfortable with working across the stack (Laravel app with some Vue on AWS, backed by Postgres); you should deeply understand how each piece of a large software project works, and how it all fits together. You’ll work closely with your teammates and Product Manager to determine what we’re building, how we’re building it and how we’ll roll it out and support it.
Debug Production Issues: Everyone takes a regular turn supporting our users directly in our dev-triage role - although we don’t page outside of business hours. You’ll be relied upon by your teammates to swarm on critical issues and debug them when they come up.
Serve as a leader on our small but mighty team: You’ll provide feedback to colleagues via technical design reviews and code reviews, feedback to your Product Manager on their PRDs, and help us frame the tradeoffs between various implementations that allow us to best meet our goals. You’ll own large, end-to-end projects with a direct business impact. As a small team that does a lot, you’ll be comfortable with navigating ambiguity and identifying blockers.