Sr Software Development Eng

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• Date: Nov 12, 2026
• Location(s): St. Paul, MN, US, 55107

Requisition ID: 98792

NextEra Analytics offers energy consulting services using industry-leading scientific analysis for planning, siting, forecasting and optimizing all forms of energy projects. Our optimization and analytics platforms integrate open-source technologies to leverage massive, diverse sets of utility operating data. This enables rapid development of operational solutions. Applying expertise in advanced mathematics, data and physical sciences, we solve some of the hardest problems facing the energy industry.

Position Specific Description

We are seeking a high-caliber

Senior Software Development Engineer to join a team building customer-centric solutions for the business. This role is designed for a top-tier engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong product intuition, business acumen, and an ownership mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, partnering directly with business leaders to understand problems before designing solutions.

You rapidly translate ideas into working software, validate assumptions through iteration, and evolve prototypes into scalable production systems. You act as the technical bridge between business strategy and engineering execution, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable customer and business value.

Key Responsibilities & Expectations

• Execution & Business Ownership

Drive Outcomes

Take ownership of delivering meaningful business results, managing scope responsibly, and communicating technical risks early.

Technical Translation

Partner closely with business leaders. Articulate complex architectural decisions and tradeoffs in clear, outcome oriented terms.

Cross Functional Partnership

Engage security, risk, compliance, and platform teams early, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and advocate for alternative approaches when a project requires them.

Strategic Technology Advisor

Build trusted relationships with business leaders by translating technical possibilities into business capabilities and clearly communicating tradeoffs, risks, and investment decisions.

• Engineering & System Design

Solve Business Problems

Work directly with business stakeholders to understand operational challenges, identify root causes, and design software that creates measurable business impact.

Architect in Ambiguity

Translate loosely defined business problems into clean, robust architectures while anticipating edge cases.

Rapid Delivery

Where appropriate, deliver products quickly to stakeholders to validate ideas, gather feedback, and accelerate iteration.

Full Stack Delivery

Own features end to end across services, data, and user interfaces, making pragmatic technology choices while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

• Engineering Productivity with AI

AI Assisted Development

Use agentic AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to accelerate delivery while maintaining full accountability for code quality, correctness, and security.

Feedback Loops for Coding Agents

Design quality gates, specification driven workflows, and deterministic checks that identify agent errors before they reach human review.

Evaluate Emerging Technology

Continuously assess AI capabilities and engineering practices, adopting approaches that measurably improve delivery speed, software quality, and developer experience.

• Reliability & DevSecOps

Security First Mindset

Embed security and compliance into every stage of the development lifecycle, proactively mitigating vulnerabilities through secure design.

Production Standards

Build well tested, maintainable software. Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and optimized for an exceptional end user experience.

Operational Readiness

Make production systems measurable, debuggable, and recoverable by building observability, alerting, runbooks, and recovery mechanisms from the outset.

• Culture

Customer Obsession

Start with customer and business needs, using technology as the means, not the end, to deliver value.

High Performance

Maintain high standards, embrace continuous learning, and foster collaborative problem solving in an environment where talented individuals thrive alongside exceptional teammates.

Ownership & Accountability

Take ownership of your work, exercise thoughtful judgment, and consistently follow through on commitments.

Collaborative Autonomy

Operate with a high degree of trust and autonomy while working together to make decisions aligned with business, customer, and operational goals.

Job Overview

This position writes and tests software to aid in development and support of products. Individuals in this role work with Technical Leads on software system architecture and service design and typically leads a module in the system. This position participates in required product development process ceremonies. Employees in this role are responsible for writing and refining technical requirements and technical design documentation.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Codes in multiple languages in support of software products and the development of software products
• Conducts system testing and codes unit tests and support features

Works with product team to refine product requirements

• Collaborates on high level software design projects and software system architecture and creates effective component level architectures
• Leads software module construction from architecture and design to implementation and may lead a small team of engineers in building the module

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience: 7+ years

Pay and benefits

The estimated base pay for this position is $122,400.00 to $183,600.00 per year. Starting pay will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, experience, qualifications, job-related and industry knowledge and skills and education/training.

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to

• Employee Group: Exempt
• Employee Type: Full Time
• Job Category: Science, Research, and Technology

Relocation Provided: No

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