Sr. Software Engineer
The Weather Company2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, manage, sustain, and evolve high-scale cloud-based services for geospatial and weather data.
- Ingest, store, transform, and distribute geospatially referenced data across a large distributed service fleet.
- Champion thoughtful AI adoption and evaluate AI capabilities with science and technology colleagues.
- Modernize legacy systems and propose sustainable replacements that enable automation.
- Influence technical direction across development and operational support teams.
- Advance 3–5 or more concurrent initiatives from assessment through production deployment and sustaining engineering.
- Drive innovation in visualization and delivery of consumer, aviation, and B2B datasets.
- Support internal tooling for sellers, product owners, and support teams accessing the SSDS product catalog.
- Contribute to cost optimization, security compliance, and platform reliability.
- Use AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Cursor daily.
- Collaborate with product, operations, and external enterprise clients.
Requirements
- 5–8 or more years of software engineering experience focused on backend systems hosted in the cloud, with AWS strongly preferred.
- Production experience with geospatial data systems, tile serving, coordinate systems, or related tooling.
- Experience delivering and supporting large-scale distributed systems across the full software lifecycle.
- Experience working in 24x7 operational environments with mission-critical reliability requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to complete 3–5 or more concurrent technical initiatives.
- Practical experience integrating LLM and modern AI capabilities through APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, or similar approaches.
- Production-level proficiency in Java or GoLang.
- Demonstrated daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in a high-ownership environment.
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off program.
- Hybrid work model.
- Medical insurance options, including $0-cost premium employee coverage.
- 401K match with no vesting requirement and national health, dental, and vision plans effective on day one.
- Progressive family plan benefits.
- Opportunity to work for a global, industry-leading technology company on impactful work in a collaborative environment.
About The Weather Company
The Weather Company builds weather data platforms, APIs, and decision-support tools for enterprises in media, aviation, energy, retail, and advertising, and runs consumer weather apps and sites. Revenue comes from enterprise subscriptions/licensing and advertising across its digital properties, including The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground. It is privately held and headquartered in Brookhaven, Georgia, serving hundreds of enterprise customers and reaching hundreds of millions of monthly users.