Senior Software Engineer, Sofar Ocean

• You’re excited to learn new domains & technologies when needed and are a strong communicator with other engineers and non-technical team members
• Passionate about the opportunity to join a growing mission-driven startup to make a big positive impact on the world
• A great communicator with a collaborative mindset who enjoys working with other engineers, designers, product managers, and scientists
• 3+ years professional experience as a software engineer
• Experience in Rust, C++, C (compiled, non-garbage-collected language)
• Experience in Python or Typescript

Desirable

• We are looking for a product-driven software engineer to join our team as we scale our groundbreaking Wayfinder weather routing service for the maritime transport industry
• In this position you will help design, develop, and maintain services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine – an optimal ship-routing tool that combines weather data with ship performance models and user-specified constraints to find the most efficient routes across the worlds' oceans, saving fuel, emissions and reducing risk
• 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
• You’ll collaborate with a top-notch team of engineers and ocean scientists to translate abstract requirements into great code in a novel problem space
• You’ll spend a lot of time implementing and improving core algorithms, but will also contribute to the higher level web services and infrastructure in the ecosystem
• Our tech stack includes Typescript and React on the frontend with backend APIs written using Typescript and Python
• You’ll be primarily be working on our routing optimization system, which is written in Rust with some elements in Python
• You should be comfortable working with both high- and low-level languages and will be collaborating with engineers to deliver end-to-end features to users