Senior Software Engineer, Geospatial Data

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting‑edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

Overstory uses AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialise, helping utilities prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

The role

As a Senior Engineer, you will have a direct impact on the development of core geospatial products and internal data‑processing and annotation tools at Overstory. Your breadth of skills will allow you to set a technical vision for the development of the web applications, ETL pipelines and backend services owned by these teams. You’ll partner with product managers, external resources and your team members to execute this vision. Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and North America (NST, AST, EST, CST, MST, PST).

What You’ll Do

• Explore best practices to combine coding agents with software craftsmanship and teach other engineers these practices
• Optimize the orchestration of several object detection and image alignment models
• Design and maintain robust data and feature pipelines for millions of geospatial entities
• Contribute to the technical vision for the development of our internal annotation and QA web applications
• Work closely with your Product Manager to discover and propose new products to solve use cases such as anticipating the impact of an outage at a particular location

About You

• You love working in a remote‑first, fast‑moving environment where collaboration and adaptability are essential
• 5+ years of experience as a senior software engineer
• Skilled in designing ETL pipelines with near‑real‑time orchestration, in Python
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable web‑applications with React, FastAPI and PostgreSQL
• Experience with XP practices such as TDD or trunk‑based development; the team would be new to these practices
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to various audiences

Nice‑to‑haves

• Experience with the Geospatial ecosystem such as PostGIS, GeoPandas or Deck.GL
• Experience with Dagster, Airflow or similar orchestration frameworks
• Experience with building web‑applications tailored for repeatable human or agentic workflows
• Experience working in B2B, in particular with electrical utilities

What You Get

• To be part of truly mission‑driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other’s back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary