Director of Software Engineering, NX Designer

Next Power
Fremont
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 240,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Leadership","Communication","Strategic thinking","Mentoring"]

Lead the modernization and delivery of a cloud-based, integrated system engineering platform for grid-scale solar, guiding global engineering teams across multiple countries. Drive architectural modernization to microservices, AI-ready optimization, and secure, multi-tenant design while ensuring end-to-end delivery from requirements to production with strong collaboration with Product Management.

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6 months ago

Director of Software Engineering, NX Designer

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Job Summary

Lead the modernization and delivery of a cloud-based, integrated system engineering platform for grid-scale solar, guiding global engineering teams across multiple countries. Drive architectural modernization to microservices, AI-ready optimization, and secure, multi-tenant design while ensuring end-to-end delivery from requirements to production with strong collaboration with Product Management.
Location: Fremont
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and communicate the long-term technical vision and architecture for the platform, transitioning to a unified cloud platform.
  • •Lead architectural modernization including microservices, event-driven workflows, shared computation engines, scalable databases, and high-performance optimization layers.
  • •Architect the next-generation optimization platform enabling multi-objective optimization, AI/ANN warm-starting, evolutionary algorithms.
  • •Ensure systems support large-scale computational loads, high availability, and secure multi-tenant access.
  • •Own end-to-end software delivery: requirements → architecture → implementation → QA → production rollout.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 240,000 - 260,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience leading cloud software engineering teams
  • •Strong background in cloud architecture (Azure/AWS/GCP), distributed systems, and microservices
  • •Experience in architecting complex computational platforms, ideally involving optimization, simulation, or engineering workflows
  • •Expertise in Backend architecture (Python, Node.js, Java, or similar) and cloud-native databases, caching strategies, DevOps, CI/CD, automated QA
  • •Preferred: experience with optimization algorithms, AI/ML integration, agentic AI, or simulation engines
Experience:Solar energySaaSCloud platform
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStrategic thinkingMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonNode.jsJavaAzureAWSGCPMicroservicesCI/CDDevOpsContainersServerlessOrchestrationAPIs

Company Brief

Next Power
Develops, finances, and operates utility-scale renewable energy projects, focusing on solar photovoltaic and energy storage solutions to deliver clean power and grid services to commercial, industrial, and utility customers.
Industry: Renewable Energy
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