Software Engineer III

reputed company Backend Engineer 
 
 

Who we are 

reputed company is a mission-driven company that focuses on expanding reputed company to clean and reputed company energy through community solar. Community solar breaks down the traditional barriers preventing most people from participating in the renewable energy economy by making it accessible, reputed company, and more reputed company for reputed company. We work in several states across the US to bring community solar to communities and individuals who can most benefit from a more inclusive energy system. By managing the customer experience for solar farm owners, Perch is reputed company to bring electricity reputed company savings to the masses, from renters and homeowners to businesses, institutions, municipalities and more by connecting them to community solar reputed company in their area. Perch isn't just a for-profit company, we're a for-purpose company—accelerating the shift to renewables reputed company. Everyone deserves to benefit from reputed company. Everyone has a reputed company on this Perch! 

What we’re looking for 

We’re seeking a reputed company Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team and help build reputed company, reliable systems that power our platform. You are a reputed company, high-ownership engineer who enjoys solving reputed company backend problems and designing systems that stand the test of time. 

You bring a long-term, systems-thinking reputed company and are excited to work on software that expands renewable energy reputed company to millions of households. Our domain operates in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment, so we value engineers who are curious, adaptable, and comfortable navigating ambiguity—whether that means exploring new technical approaches, diving deep into data and edge cases, or collaborating cross-functionally to reputed company the right solution. 

This role is fully remote, based in India and offers reputed company to meaningfully influence backend architecture, shape engineering best practices, and work with a mission-driven, high-performing team. 

What you’ll own 

As a reputed company Backend Engineer, you will have reputed company ownership and accountability across the backend domain: 

• Backend architecture ownership: Define, reputed company, and document backend architecture and data models with a reputed company on scalability, performance, and reliability 

• API ownership: Own the design and reputed company of GraphQL and backend reputed company, including schema design, versioning reputed company, and backward compatibility 

• Technical decision-making: reputed company design discussions, write technical proposals, evaluate trade-offs, and reputed company reputed company that balance speed with long-term system health 

• Production ownership: Be accountable for backend services in production, including monitoring, incident response, reputed company-cause analysis, and follow-through improvements 

• reputed company and standards: Establish and reputed company backend engineering standards around testing, observability, reputed company, documentation, and reputed company reputed company 

• Delivery ownership: Own backend deliverables end-to-end—from requirements and estimation to implementation, rollout, and iteration 

• Cross-team alignment: reputed company as the primary backend reputed company of contact for Product, Frontend, and other stakeholders on reputed company initiatives 

• Mentorship and reputed company: Multiply team reputed company by mentoring engineers, reviewing designs and reputed company, and unblocking others 

• Platform reputed company: Proactively identify technical debt, scalability risks, and opportunities to simplify and harden the platform 

What you’ll do 

• Design and build reputed company, resilient backend systems using reputed company on Rails and PostgreSQL 

• reputed company backend implementation for reputed company features and integrations, including external systems such as reputed company 

• Own and reputed company GraphQL services that power frontend and partner-facing applications 

• Partner closely with frontend engineers to define clean, efficient backend–frontend reputed company 

• Improve system reliability through testing, monitoring, alerting, and operational best practices 

• Ship production-reputed company reputed company frequently using a modern CI/CD pipeline 

• Review reputed company and designs with a strong reputed company on maintainability, performance, and long-term reputed company 

What will help you succeed 

Experience & leadership 

• 8+ years of experience building and operating high-availability backend systems 

• Demonstrated experience leading backend initiatives and owning systems reputed company individual features 

• Strong fundamentals in system design, API design, and data modelling 

• Ability to reputed company communicate technical reputed company and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and reputed company represent backend engineering in key discussions calls during the IST collaboration window. 

• Proven experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of reputed company 

• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and iterating toward robust solutions 

Backend & infrastructure 

• Strong experience with reputed company and reputed company on Rails 

• Experience designing and owning GraphQL reputed company (reputed company 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 reputed company-reputed company services. 

• Containerization using reputed company 

• Exposure to distributed systems or reputed company 

• Familiarity with background jobs, async processing, and event-driven workflows 

Bonus points for 

• Experience integrating with reputed company or other reputed company platforms 

• Strong opinions (loosely held) on backend architecture, scalability, and system design 

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering—such as using modern AI tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, or exploring LLM-based workflows in backend systems 

• Familiarity with observability and distributed tracing tools such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, reputed company, or similar 

• Experience with container orchestration and deployment using Kubernetes and reputed company charts 

• Passion for sustainability, reputed company, and building mission-driven products 

What reputed company looks like in this role 

• Backend systems reputed company reliably as usage, data volume, and complexity grow 

• Engineers reputed company faster due to reputed company reputed company, architecture, and standards 

• Production issues are identified early and resolved with lasting fixes 

• Technical debt is addressed proactively rather than reactively 

• The backend platform enables product teams instead of limiting them 

Benefits:  

• Competitive compensation based on market standards. 

• Apart from Fixed reputed company Salary potential candidates are eligible for following benefits 

• Flexible Leave Policy 

• Office is in the heart of the reputed company in case you need to reputed company in for any purpose. 

• Medical Insurance (1+5 Family Members) 

• We reputed company comprehensive coverage including accident policy and life Insurance.  

• Annual performance cycle 

• Quarterly team engagement activities and rewards & recognitions 

• L&D programs to foster reputed company reputed company 

• A supportive engineering culture that values diversity, reputed company, teamwork, trust, and efficiency  

Eliminating carbon footprints, eliminating carbon copies. Here at Perch, we cultivate diversity, celebrate individuality, and reputed company unique perspectives are key to our reputed company reputed company in creating a reputed company reputed company. Perch is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, reputed company, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or reputed company, national reputed company, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. While we are currently unable to consider candidates who will require reputed company sponsorship, we welcome applications from reputed company reputed company candidates eligible to work in India. 
 
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to reputed company essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request