Staff Software Engineer

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 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 Sofar’s software engineering teams to simplify our stack and build for the future.

• Passionate about building a product with a positive impact on the world

• Passionate about the craft of software engineering. Loves making beautiful functional interfaces for humans

• 8+ years experience of professional software development experience.

• Significant professional experience with modern Typescript and React

• Curious and experimental in the face of rapid tech change like LLM’s

• Comfortable building in the frontend and backend

• Owns the full lifecycle of features from conception development testing release & adoption

• Clear 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

• Enjoy mentoring & growing engineers earlier in their technical careers

• $175000 - $222000

• 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.

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.

What We Do

Sofar connects the world's oceans to power a more sustainable future. Sofar unlocks ocean data at scale. We deployed hundreds of Spotters globally to create the world’s largest privately-owned network of ocean sensors that collects 1.5 million real-time observations daily. Our team of ocean scientists assimilates this real-time data into our marine weather forecasts which are up to 50% more accurate than traditional models. In maritime shipping we use these high-accuracy forecasts and vessel performance models to provide optimized guidance and save ships time fuel and emissions. We also equip researchers operators and innovators with our devices and data to power marine research and sustainable commercial solutions. Customers access data from our global sensor network and deploy our extensible Spotter platform to collect real-time surface and subsurface observations. Sofar’s team of engineers ocean scientists and business professionals is based in San Francisco California.