Data Engineer II

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low, support the energy transition, and keep the grid running. It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose.

As a Data Engineer on the Bid-to-Bill Operations Engineers team, you will sit at the intersection of software engineering, customer operations, and market execution. You'll work directly with customers and internal teams to solve complex production challenges, investigate issues, improve system reliability, and build automation that eliminates repetitive work.

Our customers depend on Yes Energy to run critical market operations involving settlements, billing, scheduling, and energy transactions worth millions of dollars each day.

Success in this role is not measured by lines of code written. It is measured by making systems more reliable, reducing operational friction, improving customer outcomes, and creating leverage for the broader organization.

If you enjoy solving real-world problems, understanding how systems behave in production, and building practical solutions that make people's lives easier, this role offers an opportunity to have an outsized impact.

• Salary range: $100,000-125,000 USD
• Location:  Boulder, CO;
• Full-time
• Hybrid - 2-3 days in the office
• Reporting to: Operations Engineer Manager
• Travel requirements: Up to 5%

Our team sits at the center of some of the most operationally demanding workflows in North American power markets, including highly accurate financial settlements, billing, scheduling, and transaction processes that Utilities, Independent Power Producers, and others rely on to run their business. This role exists to make those systems more reliable, more scalable, and easier to operate. You'll help transform operational knowledge into software, replace manual workflows with automation, and improve the experience for both customers and internal teams.

• →Partner directly with customers to investigate and resolve complex operational and technical issues.
• →Serve as a trusted technical resource during production incidents and customer escalations.

• →Identify recurring operational problems and build automation to eliminate them.
• →Improve system observability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and diagnostic tooling.
• →Reduce manual operational effort through workflow and process automation.

• →Develop and maintain software and database solutions using C#, SQL Server, and related technologies.
• →Improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of existing production systems.

• →Convert production learnings into permanent improvements.
• →Document operational knowledge and improve team resilience through knowledge sharing.
• →Provide after-hours support, for critical production issues 

• Four-year college degree or equivalent working experience
• A minimum of 3 experience with C#, javascript, 
• Strong skills in SQL, MS SQL server
• We actively use AI-assisted development, automation, and operational tooling. We expect engineers to leverage AI as a force multiplier for investigation, coding, documentation, testing, and workflow improvement 
• Communication, across team, with clients both written and verbal communication skills

• Market knowledge, power trading, settlements, billing
• Microsoft Azure knowledge
• Vue.js experience

• You are an engineer who is energized by production reality
• You look for patterns, ask why things are breaking, and build practical improvements that make the team better
• You get satisfaction from eliminating repetitive work through automation.
• You find yourself asking “why does this keep happening?” instead of just fixing today’s issues.
• You like working directly with customers each day and understanding how software impacts real businesses.
• Curiosity comes natural and you have the eye for change
• Eager to provide feedback and improve the team as a whole

Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions. Over 1,000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily. The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management, developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008, Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts, traders, and trade managers. Yes Energy has a team of amazing professionals across the United States, Europe, and Asia. 

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy, we care about saying “Yes” to customers. We like to listen, learn, and develop solutions that align with their needs. We think about customers as business partners, and when we help them be more successful … we are more successful, too.

Around the office, our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that we’re proud of:

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges.
• We are “high standards people” who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds- with a consistent ethic across the company.
• We’re team-focused with a flat hierarchy. We work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the business's success.
• We play to each person's strengths and experience while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area. This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills and an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways. 
• We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.

 At Yes Energy, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.