Highlights
Reporting to the Acting CTO, this person will serve as the day-to-day technical lead, bringing together cloud infrastructure, data, forecasting, AI-enabled workflows, and customer-facing applications into a secure, scalable platform. AI & AUTOMATION Experience integrating LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG, document processing, prompt orchestration, workflow automation, and AI-assisted quality assurance into production environments.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Houston, TX |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.searchsvc.com/ |
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our Client is seeking a Senior Software & Platform Engineer to lead the development of its next-generation energy intelligence platform.
Reporting to the Acting CTO, this person will serve as the day-to-day technical lead, bringing together cloud infrastructure, data, forecasting, AI-enabled workflows, and customer-facing applications into a secure, scalable platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Our Client is seeking a Senior Software & Platform Engineer to lead the development of its next-generation energy intelligence platform.
Reporting to the Acting CTO, this person will serve as the day-to-day technical lead, bringing together cloud infrastructure, data, forecasting, AI-enabled workflows, and customer-facing applications into a secure, scalable platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and build the core cloud platform, APIs, data services, authentication, workflows, and customer workspaces
- Modernize existing customer-facing applications, analytical products, reporting, and deployment frameworks
- Develop canonical data models, APIs, ETL pipelines, metadata frameworks, and spatial and graph database integrations
- Integrate forecasting, grid physics, benchmarking, GIS, AI services, document management, and external APIs
- Build production AI workflows for data validation, document extraction, automation, quality assurance, and human-in-the-loop review
- Implement secure authentication, authorization, CEII segregation, audit logging, encryption, secrets management, and secure APIs
- Lead day-to-day engineering execution, including code reviews, coding standards, CI/CD, Git workflows, sprint planning, and technical estimation
- Mentor developers and coordinate technical workstreams across product, data, forecasting, and engineering teams
- Strong software and platform engineering experience
- Python
- FastAPI or similar API frameworks
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS and SQL
- REST APIs
- Git
- Docker
- Cloud deployment experience
- Strong systems thinking and software architecture skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Microsoft Azure
- Neo4j or other graph databases
- Vector databases
- GIS and spatial analytics
- Kubernetes
- React and TypeScript
- Message queues and event-driven architectures
- Experience with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, energy software, infrastructure analytics, engineering software, or asset management
- Experience integrating LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG, document processing, prompt orchestration, workflow automation, and AI-assisted quality assurance into production environments
- This role focuses on production AI integration rather than AI model development or research
- Modernized customer portal
- Canonical data platform and production API framework
- AI-enabled data workflows
- Secure customer authentication
- ERCOT forecasting engine integration
- Benchmarking and data governance infrastructure
- Beta Due Diligence Portal
- Scalable production deployment architecture
About Company
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