.Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on. Overstory's mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet's vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation. Today, we proudly partner with 40+ leading utilities worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities, to help reduce wildfire risk and increase grid reliability to prevent power outages. We have already proven our business model and we're all united behind our ambitious vision to scale up this model to help humanity and the planet. We closed a $14 million Series A, led by B Capital and welcoming The Nature Conservancy to our collective of climate-minded investors. This milestone includes additional investment and continued support from Convective Capital, Semapa Next, Bentley iTwin Ventures, Pale blue dot, CapitalT, Moxxie Ventures, and Overwater Ventures If you want to have a real impact and solve some of the world's most complex challenges with advanced technology, come work with our talented and passionate team. Overstory is a remote-first company, with people living all over the U.S. and Europe. Your responsibilities As a Staff Engineer, you will work within the Vegetation Management Experience team to evolve a suite of web tools that enable utility companies to more effectively manage risks associated with climate change, wildfires and storms. We are seeking improvement in the following areas: Performance & Scalability: ensure that our product can handle 3x YoY growth Accelerate time to value of new product capabilities Reduce the amount of manual work required to ingest vegetation analysis into our customer facing tools Here at Overstory our Staff Engineers are hands-on technical leaders whose influence extends beyond their team either through leading cross team initiatives, making technology choices for critical aspects of our technology platform or solving for critical technical challenges within teams enabling our business to achieve our rapid scaling plans (growing 3x YoY). This role will start off being primarily team scoped solving critical scaling challenges. There is scope to expand remit as we grow. What you will do Technical Skills: Broad and deep understanding of system design with an ability to select the correct paradigm/technology given the situation and constraints. Develops a deep understanding of our business domains and how technology can be applied to drive business impact. Innovates and introduces new technologies or methodologies. Resolves complex technical challenges with innovative solutions. Ownership: Leads cross-team initiatives or leads on architectural system design at team level Drives pragmatic technology choices/decisions making sensible trade offs in order to balance current and future business needs
