Senior Software Engineer
Project Canary21 days ago
Denver, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve meaningful production systems.
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and web interfaces.
- Solve complex backend problems while contributing across the full stack.
- Improve system reliability, maintainability, performance, and code quality.
- Contribute to technical, architectural, and engineering-practice decisions.
- Own complex technical work independently from problem definition through delivery.
- Partner with product, engineering, and company leadership.
- Deliver software that has visible impact on products, customers, and the company.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to reason through complex systems and make sound engineering decisions.
- Experience designing and shipping production systems or developing and maintaining production web applications and services.
- Strong backend fundamentals and comfort contributing to frontend work.
- Experience with .NET, C#, Entity Framework Core, React, Java, Spring Boot, or comparable technologies is relevant.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, articulate tradeoffs, learn unfamiliar technologies, and take ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to evaluate technical and architectural decisions independently, review generated code critically, and troubleshoot problems.
- Comfort working in a mid-stage startup with evolving priorities, limited documentation, and broad engineering responsibilities.
Benefits
- Annual base salary of $150,000-$185,000.
- Hybrid work environment with three days per week in the Denver office.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles; the company pays 99% of self coverage and 50% of dependent and/or spouse coverage.
- 401(k) with company match and no vesting period.
- Student loan assistance.
- Unlimited PTO, six sick days per year, 11 paid company holidays, and up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Dog-friendly office environment.
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About Project Canary
Project Canary builds emissions-monitoring hardware and software for energy operators, combining methane sensors with a data analytics and reporting platform. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, integrates data from multiple sources to help oil, gas, and LNG participants detect leaks, manage compliance, and assess ESG performance. Its Aeris Technologies subsidiary develops laser-based gas analyzers for fixed, mobile, handheld, and aerial deployments.