[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Geospatial Data @Overstory

Role Description

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

As a Senior Engineer, you will have a direct impact on the development of core geospatial products and internal data-processing and annotation tools at Overstory. Your breadth of skills will allow you to set a technical vision for the development of the web applications, ETL pipelines, and backend services owned by these teams. You’ll partner with product managers, external resources, and your team members to execute this vision.

Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and North America (NST, AST, EST, CST, MST, PST)

What You’ll Do

• Explore best practices to combine coding agents with software craftsmanship and teach other engineers these practices
• Optimize the orchestration of several object detection and image alignment models
• Design and maintain robust data and feature pipelines for millions of geospatial entities
• Contribute to the technical vision for the development of our internal annotation and QA web applications
• Work closely with your Product Manager to discover and propose new products to solve use cases such as anticipating the impact of an outage at a particular location

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a senior software engineer
• Skilled in designing ETL pipelines with near-real-time orchestration, in Python
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable web applications with React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL
• Experience with XP practices such as TDD or trunk-based development
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to various audiences

Nice To Have

• Experience with the Geospatial ecosystem such as PostGIS, Geopandas or Deck.GL
• Experience with Dagster, Airflow or similar orchestration frameworks
• Experience with building web applications tailored for repeatable human or agentic workflows
• Experience working in B2B, in particular with electrical utilities

What We Offer

• Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits
• Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust
• Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets
• A company culture that genuinely embodies each of our core values
• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis

About Our Team

We are a group of 100 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team and at last count we speak fourteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, and Danish.

We work remotely from eleven countries and are looking for candidates that are living and working in one of them: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and Canada. We gather once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

The climate crisis is a human crisis that requires diverse perspectives to solve. We place enormous value on diversity and believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different backgrounds and experience work together.

Our Values

• Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.
• We act with urgency.
• Our curiosity fuels our growth.
• We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
• We’re rooted in diversity.
• We care for each other.
• Trust is fundamental.

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We sometimes use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as helping us manage applications more efficiently or ensuring job descriptions are clear and inclusive. All hiring decisions are always made by people, not machines.