Staff Software Engineer

About Aurora Solar

Aurora is on a mission to create a future of solar for all. Our award-winning software puts the power of data and technology into the hands of every solar professional to make solar adoption simple and predictable. Our software has designed millions of solar projects so far, empowering solar companies to sell, design, and install residential and commercial solar arrays accurately, seamlessly, and at scale. 

We’ve been named one of "The Best Remote Companies To Work for in 2025" by BuiltIn.com and have been recognized for the second time as a Certified Green Business (CGB) with the city of San Francisco. We’re in this together to support the world’s transition to solar.

About the Team

HelioScope is Aurora Solar’s commercial solar design platform, built to power some of the largest and most complex PV projects in the world. From commercial rooftops to utility-scale systems, HelioScope helps teams move from concept to construction with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

As one of Aurora’s fastest-growing products, HelioScope sits at the intersection of performance, scale, and domain complexity. The engineering team works closely with product, design, and customers to solve deep technical challenges and continuously raise the bar for commercial solar design software.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the HelioScope team, you’ll operate as a technical leader with broad influence across the product and engineering organization. You’ll work across the stack to design, build, and evolve systems that support complex workflows, large datasets, and performance-critical use cases.

At the Staff level, your impact goes beyond individual features. You’ll help set technical direction, shape architecture, and guide teams toward scalable, maintainable solutions. You’ll partner closely with product, design, and other engineering leaders to tackle ambiguous problems, balance short-term delivery with long-term health, and ensure HelioScope continues to scale with the needs of the commercial solar industry.

This is a role for engineers who enjoy owning hard problems, influencing how teams build, and leaving systems better than they found them.

Your Impact

• Set technical direction for major areas of the HelioScope codebase, balancing performance, scalability, and developer experience

• Design and implement complex systems and features across the stack, including greenfield initiatives and foundational improvements

• Lead large initiatives from early technical exploration through delivery, aligning stakeholders and driving execution

• Influence architecture and engineering standards through design reviews, technical proposals, and hands-on contributions

• Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, and customer-facing teams to translate real-world needs into durable technical solutions

• Raise the bar for engineering quality through mentorship, code reviews, and modeling strong technical judgment

• Identify and proactively address technical risk, legacy constraints, and opportunities for long-term simplification

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience building and maintaining high-quality software systems, with demonstrated ownership of complex technical problems

• Working understanding of photovoltaic system design concepts, including core components, basic wiring principles, shade analysis, and annual energy production modeling

• Strong proficiency in at least one core programming language, ideally Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or React

• Deep understanding of software design principles, patterns, and tradeoffs at both component and system levels

• Experience designing and evolving APIs, data models, and cloud-native architectures in production environments

• Proven ability to operate in ambiguity—breaking down loosely defined problems and driving them to practical solutions

• A track record of technical leadership through influence, not authority, across teams and disciplines

• Comfort communicating complex technical ideas clearly in written and spoken English

Nice to Haves

• Experience working on performance-sensitive or computation-heavy systems

• Background in applied mathematics, 2D/3D modeling, or electrical or energy systems

• Familiarity with technologies such as Redux, Flask, Celery, Redis, Postgres, C++, WebGL, Three.js, or CUDA

• Passion for improving developer productivity through tooling,