Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)
Job Mission
How can software enable Terraformation to scale reforestation efforts 10x a year? As a software engineer on our team, you will help us answer that question. Reforestation is a complex process that is currently very manual and limited by access to funding. Our team’s goal is to quickly iterate so that we figure out how data collection and automation can make a difference.
Location: United States, Remote. Must have at least 3 working hours overlap with both Pacific (GMT-8) and Hawaii (GMT-10)
Salary: $130,000 - $150,000, plus equity (depending on location and experience)
Our Tech Stack
- Kotlin backend (Spring Boot)
- React with Typescript frontend (Redux for state management, Material UI (v5) for component library, Mapbox API)
- PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure hosted on AWS, managed with Terraform and Ansible
- Automatic testing and deployment using GitHub Actions
See our code here: https://github.com/terraware
- Iterate on our existing forestry restoration and accelerator React applications.
- Contribute to Kotlin backend development as necessary to meet our product goals.
- Actively participate in code reviews, contribute to documentation, and improve tooling as necessary.
- Collaborate to establish and refine our engineering culture, process, systems, and codebase.
- Work cross-functionally with product and design to help make tough decisions around scope, timeline, and prioritization.
- Iterate on our interview process and give interviews so that we can hire more talented engineers.
- Share incident response and on-call responsibilities to ensure we provide a good quality of service for our forest creator partners.
- 4+ years experience as a professional software engineer.
- 1+ years experience as a full-stack developer of applications in production.
- Enjoy working cross-functionally with product managers and designers.
- Excited to learn about evolving technologies and best practices. Able to apply those learnings in your work.
- Care deeply about solving climate change.
- Knowledge of how to architect React applications.
- Excited about designing and building a robust test suite for our React codebase.
- Experience writing backend code in Kotlin and/or Java.
- Background working in a startup environment.
- Open-source experience.
About Terraformation
Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over one million biodiverse and native trees, stored 131 million seeds, supported 19 forestry projects, and created over 700 jobs through reforestation efforts worldwide.
Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By investing in our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, offset carbon emissions, meet net zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives.
Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forest science, carbon markets, operations management, and business development, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.
Learn more at terraformation.com
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where relevant.
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As a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) at Terraformation, your mission is to help scale our reforestation efforts through innovative software solutions. Imagine answering the question: how can software make a difference in reforestation, enabling us to achieve 10x growth in our projects every year? You'll be contributing to the development of our forestry restoration and accelerator applications, utilizing a cutting-edge tech stack that includes Kotlin for the backend and React with TypeScript for the frontend. Your role will involve close collaboration with product managers and designers to navigate complexities and establish the best approaches in our engineering culture. You will also participate in code reviews, drive improvements in our tooling, and even take part in our hiring process to bring on top-notch talent. If you're someone who is passionate about combating climate change and eager to continuously learn and apply new technologies, this role is the perfect fit. You'll be part of a mission-driven team that’s already planted over a million trees and created meaningful impacts worldwide. Join us in making a difference from the comfort of your own home with a competitive salary and equity options as we work towards a sustainable future together.
Join us! Together, we can reforest our planet and reverse climate change. Global native forest restoration is the lowest cost, lowest risk, and most politically feasible carbon drawdown solution available. And it’s shovel-ready. We scale natural ...
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