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Senior Backend API Engineer

πŸ’° $165,000 - $180 🌍 San Francisco πŸ“… 07/12/2024

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Job Description

### **About The Position**

We are looking for a product-driven 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.

Building a great product will require you to have a deep understanding of our
customers, their workflows, and the data they work with every day. 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, and Nest.js, along with some data
processing services written in Python. We have important work to do on both
the frontend and backend and are looking for candidates with experience and
fluency across these technologies.

### **About You**

* Passionate about building a product with a positive impact on the world
* 5+ years experience of professional software development experience
* Significant professional experience with modern Typescript, Node JS, and AWS
* Demonstrated experience designing & building high-availability HTTP APIs, high throughput backend services, including knowledge of CDNs, authentication & authorization protocols,
* Willing to learn new tools, languages, and patterns as needed to build a great product
* A strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with other engineers, designers, PMs, and scientists
* A considerate technical leader who will mentor junior engineers through design sessions, code reviews, and team meetings
* Excited to be be a part of a small but growing startup team

### **Estimated Salary Range**

* $165,000 - $180,000
* 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.

### **Sofar 's Commitment to Climate Justice**

We at Sofar Ocean acknowledge that careers in the marine sciences β€œ... 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.