Sr. Backend Engineer

The Earth is in crisis, and wildfires are one of its most extreme and destructive symptoms: decimating ecosystems and human communities, and emitting massive amounts of pollution.

Earth Force is a unique early-stage startup, bringing together people, partners, and new tools to solve problems at the scale of the environmental challenges humanity faces. Together, we are building unique products involving a mix of cutting-edge technologies to enable efficient prevention of wildfires at scale. If you're ready to focus your work on the climate crisis, this is the time to join us!

Earth Force’s engineering team is building new products from scratch to combat the wildfire crisis. Together, we are designing the current and future architecture, using the top available technologies and building amazing new products. We are a small and nimble team so everyone is important and affects the future of Earth Force’s products. We welcome diverse perspectives and adopt a "can do" mindset to everything we do.

Our products involve a mix of cutting-edge technologies ranging from low-latency video streaming to customer-facing web products. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the team you’ll be responsible for:

• Shaping the product architecture and playing an active role in the design process

• Building web and desktop applications that work both on-line and off-line

• Building and designing company data warehouse and DBs and the relationships between them

• Integrating low-latency real-time video with web technologies

• Owning end-to-end major components and codebases

• Making additional contributions to other Earth Force products

• Helping onboard and ramp up additional team members

Required qualifications:

• BA in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent

• 5+ years as a backend engineer using C++/Java/Python

• Demonstrable experience working on projects involving multiple DBs and microservices architecture in a Cloud environment (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• High level verbal and written proficiency in English