Glimpse Looking for Founding Backend Software Engineer at Somerville, MA Full Time

$120k – $170k, 0.5% – 1%

The last decade has been incredibly exciting for electric mobility. However, the electrification of the transportation industry has scaled at the expense of battery quality, leading to uncomfortably high rates of battery pack failure and multi-billion-dollar safety recalls. In our view, every headline of electric vehicles and e-bikes catching fire is a major impediment towards an all-electric future.

This is why Glimpse is on a mission to enable battery quality at scale.

Having spent the last few years in the trenches of battery and electric vehicle factories at Tesla and Toyota, the Glimpse founding team has developed a vision for a one-stop-shop battery quality management platform. In other words, we’re building the hardware and software technologies that will eliminate defects in batteries, enabling faster factory ramp-up and safer roads.

We just raised a Seed round from reputable mobility & enterprise SaaS venture capital firms, and we’ve just started building. If you’re excited about laying the foundation for cleaner and safer electric mobility, please hit the application link.

As a founding engineer, you will shape the direction of the company and its product. Working with Glimpse’s Chief Software Officer, you will design and maintain a pipeline capable of moving and processing terabytes per hour. You will be pushing the limits of edge and cloud computing to build efficient infrastructure and make the most out of our hardware. Finally, you will contribute to building a UI that will allow our customers to quickly derive insights from the massive volume of data that we’ll generate for them.

Our culture and values

We’re an early-stage startup, so our founding engineers will help shape the core of the company. A working draft of our culture and values aspirations can be found here.

Relevant Skills

Terraform, SQLAlchemy, Python, React, AWS or equivalents

Requirements

If you don’t meet 100% of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply!

You’re fired up by:

• Making electric mobility safer, more affordable, and less wasteful
• Processing terabyte-scale datasets with both edge and cloud computing
• Building hardware-interfacing software technologies that empower our customers to drive continuous improvement
• Relentlessly getting things done and taking ownership for and pride in your work
• Defining our software engineering culture and best practices from the ground up

You have:

• Experience with API development, deployment, and integration using Python (Flask) or equivalent
• Experience with database management, migration, and interfaces using SQLAlchemy
• Experience building and scaling a production/dev/testing environment for a secure web application
• A strong desire to keep infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Authorization to work in the US

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with enterprise software development and security
• Experience in high-performance computing (compute, storage, bandwidth)
• Experience in developing our React UI
• Experience with hardware-facing software, particularly in scientific or manufacturing environments
• Experience at high-growth, fast-paced startups

Location

We’ll be headquartered in Greentown Labs in Somerville, MA. As an early-stage startup working on hardware and software, we have a strong preference for being in the office more often than not. However, we’re happy to consider flexibility options for exceptional candidates.

Benefits

• Incredible growth prospects in a brand-new cleantech company
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employee and dependents
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• 12-week parental leave for both parents

Interview process

• Intro video call (30 minutes)
• Take home test (3 hours)
• Presentation + interviews (4 hours)