Overstory is a company focused on tackling the climate crisis through innovative technology solutions for the electrical grid. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead cross-team initiatives, evolve web and internal tools, and address climate-related risks faced by utility companies.
Responsibilities:
- As a Staff Engineer, you will work across multiple teams to evolve a suite of web and internal tools that enable utility companies to more effectively manage risks associated with climate change and wildfires
- Performance & Scalability: ensure that our product can handle 3x YoY growth
- Accelerate time to value of new product capabilities
- Reduce the amount of manual work required to ingest vegetation analysis into our customer facing tools
- Broad and deep understanding of system design with an ability to select the correct paradigm/technology given the situation and constraints
- Develops a deep understanding of our business domains and how technology can be applied to drive business impact
- Innovates and introduces new technologies or methodologies
- Resolves complex technical challenges with innovative solutions
- Leads cross-team initiatives or leads on architectural system design at team level
- Drives pragmatic technology choices/decisions making sensible trade offs in order to balance current and future business needs
- Defines coding standards and engineering best practices
- Evaluates and recommends new tools and technologies
- Hands-on contribution
- Mentors and coaches engineers
- Influences technical decisions at the organizational level
- Collaborates with product managers and CTO to inform how technology can influence or enable the product strategy
Requirements:
- Experience of working in a high growth scaleup environment
- Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
- Proven experience of full stack development across the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres DB, Data pipelines
- Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar
- Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment
- Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends
- You are based in GMT/ CET time zone. Open to US ET for those that are able to have significant overlap with GMT/ CET working hours
- You can demonstrate experience scaling large distributed architectures
- You have experience in working in a remote-first environment
- You have worked with satellite data and/or imagery