Software Engineer – Backend Services

Rhizome is seeking a back-end engineer who can scale Rhizome’s first-in-class climate risk platform. The ideal candidates will have a strong background developing in AWS and extensive experience in modern software development –– particularly in startup environments. If you’re hungry to build from scratch, grow a business from its earliest stages, and have a passion for applying your skills to solving tough challenges related to climate change, this is for you. This role will report directly to the CTO. 

About Rhizome

Rhizome is a climate resilience SaaS platform that helps utilities, governments, and corporations plan for greater resilience to climate change and extreme weather. Our proprietary climate risk platform applies AI to a vast amount of information that characterizes impact from extreme weather to automate the quantification of current and future climate risks on a geospatial interface of customer assets. As the U.S. experiences record-breaking climate-related impacts, our tool identifies vulnerabilities and empowers our customers to model thousands of scenarios to maximize the protection of communities and businesses.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, high performance backend systems that powers Rhizome’s web application for utility customers..

• Collaborate with the Front End and Platform teams to build new, iterative backend features..

• Architect and build multi-tenant, linearly scalable services to support Rhizome’s data analytics and planning application.

• Ensure code quality and maintainability through continuous integration.

• Build backend infrastructure using templated framework over AWS using AWS’s Well-Architected Framework for security, reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and orchestrating services for GraphQL and REST based applications

• 3+ years working with Node, Next.js and ExpressJS

• 3+ years deploying and orchestrating services in AWS

• Excellent programming skills in TypeScript and Python

• Hands-on experience with Docker and GitLab

• Experience with AWS services like RDS, S3, EC2, Athena, Serverless, ALB, Subnets and ECS

• Experience with static and dynamic code analysis

• Successful track record of building and deploying multi-tenant solutions

• Experience working with large geospatial datasets is a huge plus

Rhizome offers a competitive salary and an excellent package of benefits and stock options.