Senior Software Engineer, Power Plant Software

Form Energy is hiring a backend software engineer to develop the site control software that is deployed to the field with our batteries. As part of the Plant Software team, you will develop and maintain software that provides monitoring, visibility, and control of the full battery system, all the way from the power plant level down to individual battery cells. You’ll work closely with Form’s field engineers, firmware engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, and data platform engineers. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and be part of the growth of a fast-moving company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission!

Build Edge & Local Services: develop and maintain high-reliability backend application-layer services and infrastructure for real-time monitoring, visibility, and control.

Drive Full Feature Lifecycles: Own technical features end-to-end, translating operational requirements into scalable designs and production code, defining automated tests, and field deployments.

Team Collaboration & Continuous Improvement: Actively participate in code reviews, design reviews, and engineering standard-setting.

Field Support: Participate in the team’s on-call support and onsite testing rotations, distributed equally across all team members, to troubleshoot and validate software in active installations.

Ensure Operational Reliability: Build robust observability, diagnostic tools, and fail-safe mechanisms to ensure high availability for mission-critical infrastructure.

5+ years of software engineering experience developing and maintaining production backend services, distributed systems, or edge applications.

Strong backend development skills with demonstrated proficiency in API design, asynchronous communication, and service-oriented architectures.