Staff Software Engineer, Geospatial Data

Overstory is a company focused on tackling the climate crisis through innovative technology. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of core geospatial products and internal data-processing tools, mentoring other engineers and collaborating across teams to solve critical technical challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Explore best practices to combine coding agents with software craftsmanship and teach other engineers these practices
• Optimize the orchestration of several object detection and image alignment models
• Design and maintain robust data and feature pipelines for millions of geospatial entities
• Set the technical vision for the development of our internal annotation and QA web applications
• Work closely with your Product Manager to discover and propose new products to solve use cases such as anticipating the impact of an outage at a particular location

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as a Senior or Staff Engineer, Tech Lead, Architect or Engineering Manager
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable web-applications with React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL
• Track record of leading architectural discussions and mentoring other engineers
• Experience with orchestrating and monitoring ML systems in production
• Skilled in designing ETL pipelines with near-real-time orchestration
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to various audience
• Experience with the Geospatial ecosystem such as PostGIS, or Deck.GL
• Experience with Dagster, Airflow or similar orchestration frameworks
• Experience with XP practices such as TDD or trunk based development. The team would be new to these practices
• Experience with building web-applications tailored for repeatable human or agentic workflows
• Experience working in B2B, in particular with electrical utilities