Senior Software Developer

About AQUAOSO

We are building a water resilient future through data. If you want to help the biggest names in finance and agriculture manage water scarcity, we would love to meet you. Take part in growing a new company with a bright, multidisciplinary team. We have fun and work hard – collaboratively.

AQUAOSO is a Public Benefit Corporation. We are a Techstars Sustainability 2019 Cohort Company (in partnership with The Nature Conservancy).

Senior Software Developer

AQUAOSO Technologies is looking for a Software Developer to join our team. The position is remote. The successful candidate will work with our team in every stage of a product’s lifecycle, from planning to delivery. You’ll be able to write clean, modern, testable, well-documented code, ship code to production, and debug it when it breaks. The ideal candidate will have a broad technical background, a solid understanding of applicable analytics, and a natural curiosity for producing effective solutions. This person is patient, has excellent time-management skills, and security conscious.

Responsibilities

Design and develop –  Foster and engineer sound software solutions from conception to deployment. Evaluate requirements and determine existing product reach, potential restrictions, and future development feasibility. 
Coordinate and support – Work with the engineering and product team to execute timely and cost-effective solutions. Provide on-going support and maintenance to the customer as needed. 
Maintain secure environment – Maintain awareness of best practices for securing cloud computing resources, and keeping data security in mind with all code changes.

Requirements

• Five years of experience is required
• Work experience with Node.js, React.js and SQL (Preferably Postgres)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or a related technical field is strongly preferred, but work experience may offset this requirement.

The Day-to-day

During each sprint you will get to:

• Write clean, modern, testable, well-documented code.
• Ship your code to staging and production, and debug it when it breaks.
• Share responsibility for overall system operation.
• Work on an Agile team in CI/CD (Jenkins) environment building micro-services in JavaScript.
• Write and review technical designs.
• Perform spatial analysis in QGIS and SQL.
• Participate in daily peer code review.
• Manage your workflow, meeting deadlines you set with your team.
• Work closely with other developers and product managers.
• Be proactive about asking questions and seeking answers when you are lost.
• Be part of the rotating weekly on-call (Prometheus/OpsGenie/Slack), in the event of an (unlikely) emergency outage.

Compensation and Perks

• Stock option equity program
• 401k, health and dental insurance
• Paid leave
• Flexible hours and ability to work remote
• Periodic team retreats (on hold due to COVID-19)
• Virtual Lunch and Learns and team activities
• Working with a highly motivated team on products that have the potential to have significant societal impact

AQUAOSO is an equal opportunity employer. Our employees enjoy a work culture that promotes diversity and mutual respect..

Apply below. A cover letter is expected. Please address how your past experience is relevant to the technologies and practices listed here. Tell us why AQUAOSO is a good fit for your skills and interests. If you have some open source work, or other project samples, show it off!