Climate & Environment Full-time

Staff Software Engineer

Overstory

Location

Remote

Type

Full-time

Posted

Jul 18, 2024

Mission

What you will drive

As a Staff Engineer, you will work within the Vegetation Management Experience team to evolve a suite of web tools that enable utility companies to more effectively manage risks associated with climate change, wildfires and storms.

  • 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

Impact

The difference you'll make

By giving utilities critical analysis on vegetation risks, we're helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Profile

What makes you a great fit

  • 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

Benefits

What's in it for you

  • To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth's natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis
  • Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
  • Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills
  • To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect
  • Equity and a competitive salary

About

Inside Overstory

At Overstory, we're harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes. We use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize.