Camstar Developer

Work Mode: Full-time, in-person

Reporting To: VP – Software

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of our Head-End System (HES), Meter Data Management (MDM), and Smart Metering platform. The role requires strong backend engineering expertise, deep understanding of smart metering and utility systems, and the ability to guide a development team through architecture, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.

The ideal candidate will have practical experience building scalable IoT or utility platforms involving smart meter communication, DLMS/COSEM protocols, real-time data acquisition, validation, event processing, command execution, and integration with enterprise systems such as billing, NMS, OMS, and analytics platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical development of HES, MDM, AMI/AMR, and smart metering modules.
• Design scalable backend architecture for meter communication, data ingestion, validation, processing, storage, and reporting.
• Implement and guide development of DLMS/COSEM IEC 62056 based meter communication.
• Integrate with smart meters, DCUs/gateways, billing systems, NMS, OMS, analytics systems, and third-party utility platforms.
• Lead Java/Spring Boot backend development using REST APIs, messaging queues, socket programming, and distributed system patterns.
• Design high-volume data pipelines for interval data, events, alarms, billing reads, and meter health data.
• Ensure performance, scalability, fault tolerance, database optimization, and reliable production operations.
• Mentor developers, review code, define engineering standards, and guide sprint-level technical execution.
• Work with product, project, QA, deployment, and customer teams to convert utility requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Own technical troubleshooting for production issues, performance bottlenecks, device communication failures, and integration defects.
• Prepare technical documentation, architecture diagrams, API specifications, and deployment guidelines.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in smart metering, HES, MDM, AMI, IoT, or utility platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JDBC/JPA, multithreading, backend system design, debugging, performance tuning, and production support.
• Practical experience with DLMS/COSEM, IEC 62056, Gurux or similar frameworks, smart meter communication, meter reads, events, commands, and remote operations.
• Strong understanding of communication protocols such as TCP/IP, socket programming, FTP/SFTP, MQTT/HTTP, and related integration patterns.
• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, Apache Solr, or similar messaging and data platforms.
• Knowledge of scalable architecture, including clustering, replication, load balancing, caching, retries, failover, monitoring, and large-scale time-series data handling.
• Experience leading backend engineering teams, owning technical delivery, reviewing code, and mentoring developers.
• Preferred: experience with utility/DISCOM projects, AMISP programs, billing engines, prepaid metering, NMS/OMS, energy accounting, cloud services, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, observability, and cybersecurity for smart metering systems.

Education Requirement

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline is preferred. Candidates with strong hands-on HES/MDM, AMI, DLMS/COSEM, IoT, or utility software experience may be considered even with a different academic background.

Build smart energy solutions combining IoT sensors, edge computing, and real-time analytics.

What you'll do:

• Develop solar panel monitoring systems (Raspberry Pi/ESP32)
• Implement MQTT brokers and time-series databases (InfluxDB)
• Create energy optimization algorithms (ML-based forecasting)
• Build dashboards (Grafana, custom React apps)
• Deploy edge AI models for predictive maintenance
• Integrate with smart grid protocols

What we need:

• Python, basic electronics
• Arduino/ESP32 projects
• Interest in renewable energy/IoT
• Cloud basics (MQTT, AWS IoT Core)

Impact:

• Systems deployed at 50+ solar installations
• Green tech portfolio for sustainability roles
• Patent publication opportunity

Software Development Engineer

What you'll do

Be the dedicated engineer for one of our clients. Learn their business, find what to automate, and build it.

Build automations, integrations, and web apps on whatever the client runs business platforms like the Zoho suite, cloud services like Azure, and custom apps where needed.

Work with APIs every day: connect systems, move data, make tools talk to each other.

Own work end to end: hear the problem from the stakeholder, build the solution, ship it, demo it, support it.

Resolve client tickets and bugs fast. Keep their systems and data healthy.

Write things down: clear docs, clear updates, clear commit history.

What we're looking for

2–5 years shipping software that works and being able to read it, debug it, and stand behind it.

Strong with REST APIs and integrations between systems.

Happy working inside business platforms (Zoho, Salesforce, or similar). Much of the leverage in this role lives there, not in custom code.

You can sit in a call with a non-technical client, understand the real problem, and come back with a working solution.

Self-driven. You'll often be the only engineer on a problem.

Why you'll love this role

Full ownership from first call to delivery you run projects, not just a ticket queue.

Direct access to clients and leadership. Your decisions ship the same week.

Constant variety: new systems, new problems, new builds.

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our team in a long-term contractor capacity to continue development of a production-grade platform hosted on AWS.

This application supports policy processing, third-party integrations, compliance workflows, reporting, and intelligent automation capabilities. The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer first, capable of contributing across the full stack while helping scale and evolve the platform.

This role requires someone who can step into an existing system, understand complex workflows quickly, and independently deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack application features across frontend and backend systems

• Build and support integrations with third-party systems and APIs

• Develop workflow-driven processes using Temporal

• Build scalable APIs and backend services using Python

• Maintain and optimize relational databases using PostgreSQL

• Develop reporting and analytics capabilities using charting libraries

• Contribute to AI-enabled features and integrations within the platform

• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes

• Participate in architecture discussions and help shape long-term technical direction

• Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions

Required Qualifications

Engineering

• at least 7+ years of full stack software engineering experience

• Strong proficiency in Python

• Strong frontend development experience with modern web frameworks

• Strong backend API development experience

• Experience designing and building scalable applications

• Strong understanding of software architecture and best practices

• Experience working in complex, integrated systems

Workflow and Orchestration

• Proven experience with Temporal

• Experience building and managing workflow orchestration patterns

• Familiarity with asynchronous processing and event-driven systems

Database and Reporting

• Strong experience with PostgreSQL

• Strong SQL and data modeling experience

• Experience building reporting dashboards and analytics features

• Experience with charting libraries such as Chart.js, D3.js, or Plotly

DevOps

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with containerized deployments

• Experience with cloud environments and modern development workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in insurance, surplus lines, or compliance-based applications

• Experience integrating with third-party vendors and external APIs

• Experience with AI tooling, LLM integrations, and context engineering

• Experience building intelligent automation features

What We Are Looking For

• Self-driven and highly autonomous

• Strong problem-solving ability

• Comfortable with ownership and accountability

• Able to contribute with minimal supervision

• Strong communication skills in English

• Comfortable working U.S.-based business hours

Ideal Candidate

A senior full stack engineer who can quickly contribute to an active production system, own features end-to-end, and help expand a platform that sits at the center of complex business workflows and integrations. Send resume with projects and contact information.