Staff Software Engineer

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