Senior Full Stack Engineer

Reports to: Principal Software Engineer

Details: Senior Full Stack Developer, Full Time

About the Role:

As an early member of our software engineering team, you will have the opportunity to establish best practices and build our go-to-market platform. WATS is a climate tech startup decarbonizing businesses with waste operations software. WATS is solving for a $100M serviceable market - climate tech is a 1.5 trillion dollar industry. 

You will work directly with our founding team to deliver a software platform that meets all the needs a business has on their journey to manage their waste sustainably while reducing their costs and carbon. This role will require you to work across a modern web application stack and make informed decisions about what languages, frameworks, tools and services we will utilize to scale WATS to hundreds of thousands of customers.

About WATS: 

We are a climate tech startup building innovative software to enable and optimize Waste Management operations within businesses of all sizes. We will stop at nothing to ensure that WATS is the platform for businesses to solve all their waste management needs.  

WATS helps businesses streamline their waste operations, report on carbon impacts, and comply with shifting environmental regulations. WATS is led by two female co-founders (Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli and Laura Rosenshine) with over 2 decades of experience in the commercial waste industry with a focus on delivering zero waste solutions in New York City. They are building a SaaS solution that solves the pain points at the intersection of commercial waste management and sustainability. The United States has finally stepped up with monumental climate legislation, and the time to act is now.

Meredith and Laura are die hard zero waste experts and highly motivated to do everything in their power to make WATS a major part of the solution businesses need to change their procedures so that they handle their waste as sustainably as possible.

In 2022 WATS was a participant in the Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator. In February of 2023 WATS  completed the MassChallenge Decarbonization Accelerator, and in March of 2023 WATS closed their pre-seed round of venture capital funding and took in a bridge in the Fall of 2023.

WATS currently has 3 paying clients and others client beta testers using the platform. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Take a senior role in designing and developing our Next.js React/TypeScript application and related systems, ensuring high performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build React components, API services, tests, data ingestion methods, cloud infrastructure, and analytics in collaboration with our product and design team to exceed our customers' needs and expectations.
• Create, document and maintain team tools, workflows and application infrastructure
• Set technical direction and establish/contribute to software development best practices for code quality, data security, and adherence to industry standards
• Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Collaborating with product owners and participating in our planning and design meetings, daily standups, and other team and product building processes.
• Ownership of your tasks until completion, with a focus on quality code and customer experience
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passionate self-driven software engineer with 7+ years of experience delivering modern full stack solutions
• Strong knowledge of web application stacks.  Experience with React.js/Next.js preferred but similar framework experience such as Vue.js, Angular, Flask, etc., considered
• Expertise in TypeScript and Node.js (other server-side languages considered)
• Strong experience with web protocols (HTTP, REST APIs, websockets, OAuth, etc.)
• Proficiency with SQL and data modeling
• Experience with Terraform and/or other devops/SRE IaC tools.  Comfortable automating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, workflows, tools and production infrastructure.
• Experience building scalable system architecture using AWS (or other cloud infrastructure) and containerization tools
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Product-oriented mindset. Comfortable translating nontechnical product requirements into code, and opinionated about usability and design.
• Dedication to designing and writing clean, readable and testable code in a professional manner, using best practices in a team environment
• Mission Driven and interested in creating applications that have a positive social and environmental impact

Work Authorization: This is a full time role and not open for visa sponsorship - the individual must be a permanent resident or citizen of Canada or the United States.

Annual Salary and terms: 

• $165-$200K 
• Equity award equivalent to 0.15-0.5% 
• This role comes with 20 days PTO, (inclusive of sick and personal days), plus company holidays  

Location: New York City, preferred, or remote for the right candidate, our organization operates on an EST work schedule.

To apply: Please apply through Climatebase. Cover letter is optional but welcome. Looking to hire 1 perfect applicants ASAP, this job was posted at the beginning of December 2023 and updated late January 2024. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the job is filled.

WATS is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.