Senior Developer
Company: Geronimo Power, LLC
Role summary
Senior Developer is a full-time role at Geronimo Power, LLC in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States (on-site). Posted 2026-09-05. Salary: USD 142,000–178,000 per year. Experience level: 2-5.
- Job title
- Senior Developer
- Company
- Geronimo Power, LLC
- Location
- Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Salary
- USD 142,000–178,000 per year
- Experience level
- 2-5
- Date posted
- 2026-09-05
Geronimo Power is looking for a talented Senior Developer to join their team full-time. This role offers a competitive salary between $142,000 and $178,000 annually, providing a great opportunity for experienced developers to advance their careers.
Job description
Position
Senior Developer
Location
Bloomington, MN (HQ)
About Us
Geronimo Power develops, owns, and operates large-scale power and affiliated digital infrastructure projects throughout America's Heartland, including solar, wind, energy storage, and powered data parks. As a farmer-founded and community-focused business, Geronimo Power equips landowners and rural communities with sustainable revenue to ignite local economic growth. To learn more about Geronimo Power, visit www.geronimopower.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.
About This Role
Geronimo Power's Development team originates, advances, and executes utility-scale energy and digital infrastructure projects across key U.S. markets. The Senior Developer is a senior individual contributor who independently advances a portfolio of early- to mid-stage projects and supports select late-stage projects across solar, wind, battery energy storage, powered data parks, natural gas, and other emerging technologies. The role evaluates market and site opportunities, leads greenfield development, coordinates cross-functional inputs, manages development budgets and schedules, and identifies and mitigates project risk.
This position does not have direct people-management responsibility. The Senior Developer provides informal leadership to cross-functional project teams and works with internal subject matter experts, external consultants, landowners, utilities, regulators, and community stakeholders. Success requires sound judgment, clear escalation of risk, and the ability to move projects forward with limited oversight while maintaining alignment with company priorities, budgets, schedules, stage-gate requirements, and development milestones.
Responsibilities
Manage the budgets, schedules, risks, documentation, stage-gate requirements, and advancement ofapproximately 4-6early- to mid-stage projects across multiple technologies, while supportingapproximately 1-2late-stage projects as needed. Annual development budgets aregenerally expectedto range fromapproximately $2 millionto $7 million, depending on project type and stage.
Support market evaluation, project origination, greenfield development, mergers andacquisitionsdiligence, and partnership opportunities.
Evaluate project viability based on land, interconnection, permitting, stakeholder, market, economic, constructability, and strategic considerations.
Lead negotiations and execution of purchase options, lease options, easements, extensions, and related real estate agreements, balancing operational, financial, legal, and constructability considerations across the project lifecycle.
Build the greenfield development pipeline byidentifyingnew market opportunities, evaluating development constraints and commercial drivers, and creating practical pathways to project viability.
Represent Geronimo Power with landowners, local officials, utilities, regulators, transmission providers, and community stakeholders, andmaintainrelationships necessary to advance projects.
Coordinate with Transmission, Engineering, Construction, Permitting, Real Estate, Legal, Finance, Commercial, Strategy, Community Engagement, and Procurement teams; provide informal leadership by clarifying ownership, driving accountability, and advancing deliverables.
Identify, assess, manage, and escalate project risks, and recommend practical mitigation strategies and decision points.
Partner with internal technical teams on interconnection and transmission activities, including schedule, cost, design, project-readiness impacts, and preparation of applicable interconnection materials.
Partner with Engineering and Construction on site layouts, design assumptions, constructability, equipment needs, cost-effective development strategies, andaccurateidentification of project constraints.
Work with the Permitting team to coordinate federal, state, and local permitting and approval processes for generation and load projects.
Prepare project updates, budgets, forecasts, schedules, investment materials, and leadership reporting that clearly communicate status, decisions, risks, and required actions.
Manage external consultants and contractors to ensuretimely,accurate, and fit-for-purpose deliverables.
Lead or support negotiation and execution of development agreements, service agreements, real estate documents, local agreements, and other project contracts.
Travel approximately 40% of the time.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What You’ll Bring
Required Experience
Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, environmental policy or science, ora relatedfield, or equivalent relevant work experience.
At least 4 years of experience in renewable energy project development ora relatedfield such as energy, real estate, infrastructure, commercial development, land development, or project management.
Strong understanding of utility-scale project development processes and working knowledge of energy markets, project economics, interconnection, permitting, land acquisition, stakeholder engagement, and project execution.
Experience managing landowner relationships, community engagement, and external stakeholder communications.
Demonstrated ability to independently managedevelopmentworkstreams, deadlines, budgets, cross-functional dependencies, and competing priorities.
Ability toidentifyproject risks, develop mitigation strategies, make recommendations, and escalate matters using sound judgment.
Experience coordinating with finance, commercial, real estate, legal, permitting, engineering, construction, transmission, and other cross-functional partners.
Strong written, verbal, analytical, negotiation, and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare clear project updates and executive materials.
Entrepreneurial mindset anddemonstratedability toidentifygreenfield opportunities, navigate ambiguity, and advance new concepts from idea toan actionabledevelopment path.
Strong organization,