Senior Backend API Engineer, Sofar Ocean
$165-180k
Ocean data monitoring
Open for applications
Ocean data monitoring
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$165-180k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's oceans to the people who depend on them (all of us).
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a product-driven software engineer to join our team as we build a new software product for the maritime transport industry
- Building a great product will require you to have a deep understanding of our customers, their workflows, and the data they work with every day
- We have important work to do on both the frontend and backend and are looking for candidates with experience and fluency across these technologies
- Passionate about building a product with a positive impact on the world
- 5+ years experience of professional software development experience
- Significant professional experience with modern Typescript, Node JS, and AWS
- Demonstrated experience designing & building high-availability HTTP APIs, high throughput backend services, including knowledge of CDNs, authentication & authorization protocols,
- Willing to learn new tools, languages, and patterns as needed to build a great product
- A strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with other engineers, designers, PMs, and scientists
- A considerate technical leader who will mentor junior engineers through design sessions, code reviews, and team meetings
- Excited to be be a part of a small but growing startup team
What the job involves
- Our Wayfinder product runs on board the largest shipping vessels in the world, providing critical decision making context for sea captains as they navigate the world's oceans
- You will collaborate with a top-notch team of engineers, ocean scientists and product designers to translate these user needs into high quality software that empowers our users with data to get their work done more efficiently
- Our tech stack includes Typescript and React on the frontend with backend APIs written using Typescript, Express, Postgres, and Nest.js, along with some data processing services written in Python
Our take
Drastically changing weather and climate is one of the foremost issues of our time. And as we work to limit the impact of the climate crisis, we need trustworthy banks of data on how these changes have manifested, and what trajectory our world is on. This is where Solar Ocean comes in, with its global network of ocean-monitoring buoys.
It is the largest network of its kind, with thousands of solar-powered ‘spotters’ across the world’s oceans delivering over 200,000 updates every day. Its product is used primarily by climate scientists, but also has important applications in shipping, weather forecasting and maritime research as well.
Sofar is the largest network of its kind, and even though its spotters aren’t as sophisticated as similar government-funded ones, the sheer scale of its data collection makes its forecasts far more accurate. Recent funding is being put towards further extending its network and developing its data services.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$39.4m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $85.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental plan
- Volunteering program
- Home office stipend
- Hybrid work schedule (for most roles)
- Flexible time off (including World Oceans Day!)
- A strong internal community of ocean-lovers!
Company values
- Oceans First: We have one planet. If we have to choose between more profit or better oceans, we choose the ocean
- Grab an Oar: We pride ourselves on being proactive, taking responsibility, and always making things better
- Team Wins: We can only accomplish this mission together. Respect and help others, always
- Challenge with Heart: Vocal but open to others’ ideas. Listen, discuss, and commit
- Ship for Impact: Build for the mission, be pragmatic, and move fast. Ocean health can’t wait
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Evan Shapiro
(CTO)Previously Co-founded Bad Rabbit Consulting, Spoondrift and Knit Health. At Knit Health they were also CTO, and at Spoondrift they worked as a Technical Architect.
Tim Janssen
(CEO)Former Assistant Professor of Oceanography at San Francisco State University. They were a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School, and worked as an Independent Research Scientist & Principal Investigator at Theiss Research & NorthWest Research Associates.
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