What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer, Wayfinder position at Sofar Ocean?
The Role:
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, and Nest.js, 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 our Sofar SWE teams to simplify our stack and build for the future.
About You:
- Passionate about building a product with a positive impact on the world
- 8 years experience of professional software development experience in modern cloud environments
- Significant professional experience with modern Typescript and React
- Comfortable building in the frontend and backend
- Owns the full lifecycle of features from conception, development, testing, and release.
- Effective 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
- Can work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
- Enjoy mentoring engineers earlier in their technical careers to help them grow
Estimated Salary Range
- $170,000 - $210,000
- The range listed is what we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and may be modified in the future. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, experience, and equity package.
Sofar's Commitment to Climate Justice
We at Sofar Ocean acknowledge that careers in the marine sciences “... have traditionally been, and remain, non-diverse work environments”, thereby limiting the entry and prosperity of underrepresented groups in the space. (Johri et al., 2021) Many of these same groups are disproportionately affected by climate change, and are often excluded from decision-making that directly address their interests and needs.
We are committed to addressing these climate injustices and highly encourage people who identify as women, LGBTQ , Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) to apply.
Salary : $170,000 - $210,000
