Software Engineer
Standard Potential · Brooklyn, NY
$120,000–$160,000
Jul 12, 2026
Brooklyn, NY
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role at an early-stage grid technology startup, focused on building and operating the software that controls a fleet of residential batteries deployed across New York City. Core work involves device telemetry ingestion, dispatch logic for utility demand response events, data integrations, and the observability tooling needed to keep physical grid assets running reliably. Suited to engineers with one to three years of production backend experience who want broad ownership from design through deployment.
Junior level · 1+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $120,000–$160,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,650 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,700–4,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role requires 1–3 years of experience, which maps to Junior–Mid. The lower bound (1 year) and the framing as an 'early engineering hire' with foundational backend scope support Junior as the more conservative and accurate band.
Python, TypeScript, and Go are listed as interchangeable options for the backend language requirement; Python is named first and is the most common in this domain, so it is the primary with the others as alternatives.
PostgreSQL is listed as 'preferred' within the relational database requirement, but the requirement for a relational database itself is a hard gate; PostgreSQL is captured as primary with common alternatives noted.
AWS and GCP are listed as interchangeable cloud platform options; AWS is named first.
AI-assisted development tools are listed as a hard requirement but name no specific product (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor); no skill entry is emitted for a generic category with no canonical tool name.
SQS and Kafka appear under Preferred Qualifications as interchangeable event-driven/queue options.
OpenADR, demand response, and AMI data integrations appear under Preferred Qualifications; OpenADR is the most concrete named technology and is captured as preferred.
Domain interest in energy systems is listed as a requirement but is a soft/interest criterion, not a concrete technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list.
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