Pachama is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Job Description: A Senior Backend Engineer is needed to lead the development of Pachama's core platform, a tool for combating climate change through forest conservation and restoration. The role involves building systems that power the platform and its AI and remote sensing insights, working with a team of experts, and contributing to high-quality products in the carbon credit and forest carbon project space.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering practices, with a background in Python, Postgres / PostGIS, and GraphQL, and some knowledge of front-end frameworks such as React / Typescript
• Experience building scalable APIs and other system architecture using GCP, Heroku, or other cloud infrastructure and containerization tools such as Kubernetes
• Experience leading large cross-team engineering efforts with a bias toward collaboration, transparency, great documentation, and clean, elegant, and pragmatic code

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems that power Pachama's platforms and their AI and remote sensing insights
• Empower interdisciplinary teams and customers to derive insights needed to originate and compare high-quality nature-based projects from multi-TB datasets
• Lead cross-functional projects and connect product value across teams with core design and technologies
• Mentor teammates to raise the bar across engineering teams, enabling step-level increases in efficiency
• Code the systems and tools that enable all engineering and science teams to produce high-quality insights for forest carbon projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked in distributed compute systems - you aren’t just familiar with distributed workflows but have been responsible for deploying, scaling, supporting or maintaining the infrastructure needed to run them. Our tech stack includes Dask and Flyte deployed through Kubernetes and GCP
• Supported Data pipelines and infra ML and Scientific applications- Have worked with ML and/or Science teams previously
• Experience in data engineering, including ingest, storage, orchestration, and compute at scale, with the ability to apply these skills to new domains like forest science and remote sensing
• Familiarity with carbon markets

Benefits

• Salary range: $106,155 USD to $168,500 USD. The salary is determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors
• The position is also eligible for equity