Staff Software Engineer, Sofar Ocean
$175-222k
3+ days a week in office
Ocean data monitoring
Be an early applicant
Ocean data monitoring
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-222k
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's oceans to the people who depend on them (all of us).
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about building a product with a positive impact on the world
- Passionate about the craft of software engineering. Loves making beautiful, functional interfaces for humans
- 8+ years experience of professional software development experience
- Significant professional experience with modern Typescript and React
- Curious and experimental in the face of rapid tech change like LLM’s
- Comfortable building in the frontend and backend
- Owns the full lifecycle of features from conception, development, testing, release, & adoption
- Clear communicator who enjoys collaborating with other engineers, designers, PMs, and scientists
- Can rapidly acquire new technical skills and knowledge in a fast-paced, high-delivery environment
- Excited to be be a part of a small but growing startup team
- Enjoy mentoring & growing engineers earlier in their technical careers
What the job involves
- We are looking for a product-driven Staff Software Engineer to join our team as we build a new software product for the maritime transport industry. 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’ll need a deep understanding of our customers, their workflows, and critical data they need to operate. 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, along with some data processing services written in Python. You will own features across the stack and should be comfortable architecting solutions from data storage layer to UIs. You’ll also help work across Sofar’s software engineering teams to simplify our stack and build for the future
Our take
Drastically changing climates are one of the foremost issues of our time. As we work to limit the impact of this crisis, we need trustworthy data to see 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.
Sofar operates the largest network of its kind, with thousands of solar-powered ‘spotters’ across the world’s oceans delivering updates every day. Its product is used primarily by climate scientists, but also has important applications in shipping, weather forecasting and maritime research.
Even though Sofar's spotters aren’t as sophisticated as similar government-funded ones, the sheer scale of its data collection makes its forecasts far more accurate. The funding it has raised is supporting the further extension of its network and development of its data services.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Evan Shapiro
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Assistant Professor of Oceanography at San Francisco State University. They were a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School, and also worked as an Independent Research Scientist and Principal Investigator.
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