Lead Backend Engineer

Perch Energy is a mission-driven company that focuses on expanding access to clean and affordable energy through community solar. We're seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team and help build scalable, reliable systems that power our platform.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating high-availability backend systems
• Demonstrated experience leading backend initiatives and owning systems beyond individual features
• Strong fundamentals in system design, API design, and data modelling
• Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and iterating toward robust solutions
• Strong experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Experience designing and owning GraphQL APIs (Apollo or similar)
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, SQS, SES, EventBridge, or similar cloud-native services
• Containerization using Docker
• Exposure to distributed systems or platform engineering
• Familiarity with background jobs, async processing, and event-driven workflows

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on market standards
• Flexible Leave Policy
• Medical Insurance (1+5 Family Members)
• Annual performance cycle
• Quarterly team engagement activities and rewards & recognitions
• L&D programs to foster professional growth
• A supportive engineering culture that values diversity, empathy, teamwork, trust, and efficiency