Senior Software Engineer, Sofar Ocean

• 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 thrives working cross discipline with other engineers, designers, product managers, and scientists
• 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer
• Proficient in a compiled, non-garbage-collected language (such as Rust, C++, C, etc.)
• Experience in Python or Typescript

Desirable

• We are looking for a product-driven software engineer to join our team as we scale and adapt our groundbreaking Wayfinder route optimization service for the maritime transport industry
• In this position you will design, develop, iterate, and maintain services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine – an optimal ship-routing service which includes:
• The generation of optimized routes in response to rapidly changing weather conditions and user-specified constraints to save fuel, emissions, and costs
• The modeling of ships to accurately predict the instantaneous fuel consumption and dynamics of maritime transport vessels across diverse weather scenarios
• The development of features and insights to help our maritime customers navigate the impacts of the complex decision-making required to move high value assets across the worlds’ oceans
• As our business is growing, we have a pressing need to scale our existing services, and simultaneously grow our scope to accommodate a wider range of customer needs
• On the Wayfinder Optimization Engine team, you’ll collaborate with a top-notch team of engineers, product experts, and ocean scientists to translate our maritime customers abstract problems into innovative software solutions
• You will spend your time automating human-intensive operational workflows related to providing routing services, evolving our core routing algorithms, adapting our core vessel performance modeling, scaling and constructing software infrastructure, and inventing data-driven insights to help our customers
• You will have tangible impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by creating and scaling the technology which enables our customers to sail safe, emissions-reducing, cross-ocean routes
• Our tech stack is a task-based compute infrastructure housed on AWS, and a backend API server to provide our routing & modeling services to other web services in our product
• Our modeling, simulation, and optimization are all implemented in Rust
• Our web-handling and backend API are implemented in Python
• In this role, you will be working with both high- and low-level languages and will be collaborating with engineers who work in Typescript/React to deliver end-to-end features to users