Full-Stack Software Engineer, Sofar Ocean
$135-165k
+ Equity package
Ocean data monitoring
Job no longer available
Ocean data monitoring
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$135-165k
+ Equity package
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
- You thrive in small and collaborative multidisciplinary teams, and are eager to pitch in to debug and solve gnarly issues (even when it's obviously a hardware problem)
- You strive for the shared success of improving the health of our oceans and planet by shipping a cohesive, solid and impactful product
- You’re a full-stack engineer with experience developing front-end and back-end elements of modern web applications
- Our tech stack includes Python and React
- You will own features across the stack and should be comfortable architecting solutions from data storage layer to UIs
- Passionate about building a product with a positive impact on the world
- 3+ years experience of professional software development experience in modern cloud environments
- Significant professional experience with modern Javascript, Typescript and Angular or React
- Deep familiarity with Python that you have delivered previously to scaled systems
- Own the full lifecycle of features from conception, development, testing, and release with CI/CD
- A solid communicator who enjoys collaborating with other engineers, designers, PMs, and scientists
- 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
What the job involves
- You will be a key contributor to Front-end and back-end engineering on cloud software systems on our Wayfinder team, which is a highly cross-functional team that designs the interface that ship captains and commercial shipping operators use to more sustainably navigate the world’s oceans
- You’ll work alongside fellow engineers within our weather data team, our “app” and “Polaris” teams, but also work very close with ocean scientists, product managers, Sofar operations, sales and more
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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