Staff Software Engineer, Geospatial Data

Overstory

19h • Remote

About The Position

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.
The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.
One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.
That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.
Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.
Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the development across teams that own 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.
Here at Overstory our Staff Engineers are hands-on technical leaders whose influence extends beyond their team either through leading cross team initiatives, making technology choices for critical aspects of our technology platform or solving for critical technical challenges within teams enabling our business to achieve our rapid scaling plans (growing 3x YoY).
You’ll lead by example and mentor other engineers to follow good practices regarding software development, system design, team processes, QA and project management.
You’ll routinely be involved in other teams’ projects to leverage or enable their own products by giving them access to timely and quality data. You would also occasionally meet with customers to understand their technical needs regarding prospective features.
This role will start off being primarily team scoped solving critical scaling challenges. There is scope to expand remit as we grow.

Requirements

• You love working in a remote-first, fast-moving environment where collaboration and adaptability are essential.
• You are based in Europe (CET, GMT) or Eastern Time (ET) zone (US or Canada) to support teammates both in Europe and on the West Coast
• 7+ years of experience as a Senior or Staff Engineer, Tech Lead, Architect or Engineering Manager
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable web-applications with React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL
• Track record of leading architectural discussions and mentoring other engineers.
• Experience with orchestrating and monitoring ML systems in production
• Skilled in designing ETL pipelines with near-real-time orchestration
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to various audience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the Geospatial ecosystem such as PostGIS, or Deck.GL
• Experience with Dagster, Airflow or similar orchestration frameworks
• Experience with XP practices such as TDD or trunk based development. The team would be new to these practices
• Experience with building web-applications tailored for repeatable human or agentic workflows
• Experience working in B2B, in particular with electrical utilities

Responsibilities

• 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
• Set 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 locatio

Benefits

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed