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Arbor · 3 weeks ago

Senior/Staff Back-end Engineer

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Arbor is a company that helps renters, homeowners, and small businesses pay less for electricity by building an intelligent electricity marketplace. They are seeking a backend-focused engineer to design and build scalable backend services that power their core marketplace platform, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency as the company scales.

Energy EfficiencyEnergy ManagementEnergy StorageRenewable Energy

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable backend services that power our core marketplace platform

Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP using Terraform, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency as we scale

Build integrations with utility data sources, supplier APIs, and third-party services across multiple energy markets

Create robust data pipelines for real-time rate monitoring and market intelligence

Partner with product and cross-functional partners to translate system and supplier needs into high-performing, resilient experiences. Take product ownership on select features and projects when necessary

Collaborate closely with a small team where your code ships fast (multiple daily prod deploys) and your architectural decisions matter

Leverage AI tools and workflows and uplevel the team around you

Qualification

Backend engineeringJavaScript/TypeScriptCloud infrastructure (GCP)TerraformDatabase managementAPI designAI fluencyShipping biasInterest in energy tech

Required

5+ years of backend engineering experience with production systems at scale

Strong JavaScript/TypeScript expertise: Node.js for backend services

Hands-on experience managing cloud environments including serverless and event driven systems built on native cloud tooling (GCP experience preferred)

Terraform proficiency for infrastructure-as-code; you've managed real cloud environments, not just tutorials

Comfort with databases (SQL, ideally Postgres), API design, and async processing patterns

AI fluency: you actively use AI coding tools and are eager to push the boundaries of AI-augmented development

Bias toward shipping; you thrive in environments with ambiguity and move fast without sacrificing quality