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We’re looking for incredible people to join our team!\nThis is a critical early hire with a significant amount of responsibility and corresponding competitive salary and equity compensation. Expect a base of $150k-$250k plus equity compensation for SF-based employees.\nRole\nPiq Energy is seeking an innovative Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team. You will develop, deploy, and maintain user-facing applications, backend APIs, databases, and cloud deployment infrastructure. As part of our dynamic startup environment, you will have opportunities to own features and shape our user experience and technical architecture. You'll collaborate within our team of software engineers, power systems experts, data scientists, and designers to deliver a powerful and performant SaaS platform.\nPiq’s technical stack includes:\nBackend: Python, FastAPI, LLM agents, Postgres, Temporal, AWS\nFrontend: Typescript, Svelte, GraphQL, Mapbox, D3.js\nThere’s no need to be an expert in all parts of our stack - it’s more important that you’re good at learning quickly.\nPiq is a remote-friendly company, with hubs in San Francisco, CA, and Athens, Greece. Our SF team works in-person in our coworking space 2-3 days per week. 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