Software Engineer, Product

About Base

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

About the Role

We’re looking for a product-minded Frontend Engineer to help design and build the entire customer experience at Base Power. From exploring energy usage in real-time to managing outages and understanding bills, you’ll craft interfaces that make energy simple, transparent, and intuitive.

You’ll join a small, high-impact team responsible for building the digital front door of Base. This role is ideal for someone who leads with the customer in mind, thrives on shipping polished user interfaces, and has taken complex features from idea to launch. You’ll influence product direction, guide architectural decisions, and shape a platform that connects real-world energy systems with the people who rely on them.

What You'll Do:

• Own the Experience: Lead development of customer-facing features across our web and mobile apps: onboarding, energy dashboards, billing, outage management, and more.

• Ship End-to-End: Take features from concept to launch -- helping to defining the data model, working with backend engineers, and sweating the UX details.

• Lead with Design Thinking: Champion usability and clarity; you’ll work closely with product and design to ensure Base feels fast, clear, and trustworthy.

• Shape How We Build: Evaluate technologies, define frontend architecture, and improve developer experience.

• Be a Product Partner – Participate in product strategy, helping translate abstract ideas into scoped, buildable solutions that make energy better for our customers.

What We're Looking For:

• 6+ years experience in product / full-stack engineering.

• Deep expertise in TypeScript and modern SPA frameworks (React, Next.js, etc.).

• Bonus: Experience with mobile frameworks (React Native or native iOS/Android), real-time data visualization, or energy/IoT domains.

• Track record of end-to-end ownership -- ideation, backend/API integration, UI implementation, and iteration post-launch.

• Familiar with product analytics, A/B testing, and using data to guide decisions.

• Technical excellence in software (you’ve gone deep on a hard problem).

• Ability to think from the customer perspective.

• Grit and first principles thinking.

About This Team

America's power grid is failing—electricity costs have risen even as generation gets cheaper, and blackouts are becoming more common. We're building the software that fixes it. Our team owns the entire stack: firmware that controls batteries in thousands of homes, trading algorithms that buy and sell power in real-time markets, distributed commanding systems that orchestrate a growing fleet as a single grid asset, factory software for our Austin manufacturing line, and the product experience that makes it all invisible to homeowners. If you want to write code that physically moves electrons, ships hardware, and reshapes critical infrastructure, this is the job.

Our Values

• First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.

• Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

• Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.

• Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.

• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.

• Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.

• Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.

Do the best work of your life at Base.